Caramel phone + S&W #74
Dear friends,
I already had a reputation for struggling to focus on one task at a time, but this week, I earned it. It starts with a pot of simmering vegan caramel, which was taking a painfully long time to reach the requisite temperature. The hero/villain/self-appointed-victim of our story (me) decided to pass the time with some idle scrolling. Maybe it was the steam coming off the caramel, or my own sweaty palms nervous from trying a new recipe, but something made that phone slip right out of my hand and tumble, head over tail, directly into the caramel. I watched, frozen with horror, as it vanished beneath the surface. I scrambled for a pair of tongs, then swiftly plucked the phone from the caramel and dropped it into an empty pot, where it proceed to glitch and flash and, eventually, cool. I didn't know what to do. The pot of caramel was just about at the perfect temperature, and I wasn't thinking clearly about which project to rescue first. I chose the caramel. As the coconut scen…