Pancakes and Packing

I made pancakes today with cherries poached in a maple/ginger beer (that's "ginger beer", not ginger, beer) syrup.

I've been editing for a week and also putting a huge amount of time in on my actual work, which involves designing a system to effectively assess a person's skill with our products and guarantee that they can meet minimum requirements. It's fun work and a real challenge, but exhausting.

I leave for a training in Germany tonight (yes, I booked another redeye, back in June when I did all this travel prep) which gets me in to Newark in the morning. I spend the day in NY and do another overnight Sunday to Hamburg to race to the training in Oldenburg by 10AM Monday morning. I have yet to pack and am only now starting to even think about it.