Well, it’s Wednesday before Thanksgiving, which for students typically means a half day, and it means a half day for Lex Friedman Consulting as well, and I’m taking off Thursday and Friday.

You can’t stop me.

You truly can’t.

I mean, you can feel free to try, but you can’t, because, yeah.

Why would you?

I mean, that would be cruel.

Anyway, happy Friday-ish Wednesday, if you know what I mean.

I think you do.

Your Daily Lex.

At a couple of my last jobs, I often was the person who dealt with some of the high-profile clients, you know, your big podcast networks or famous podcast hosts, whatever, and so I would often be in charge of figuring out what should we get gifts, like what gifts should we get and which of our partners should we send gifts, and there would often be different tiers of who you’d send what to and this whole thing, and I was thinking, hey, I run my own thing now.

Do I still do that?

And I think what I landed on was yes on a smaller scale.

Clients of a certain size.

If they spent a certain amount with me, then I’ll send them gifts, but then you kind of have to ask for their addresses, because I might have their office address or I might have like some weird accounting office address, but not the address of the people, and especially now in these kind of far greater, you know, quantity of telecommuting, it’s a little harder to know where to send stuff.

Typically, I’m going to send it to the person who pays my bills, because that’s why I like the most at each of these companies.

Sorry, that’s how it works.

But you know, when there’s an office, you can send it to the office and then things get shared, but when there is no office, that changes it.

But I sent a bunch of gifts today, and I was going, you know, using a site that lets you order all different kinds of gift packages, and I put all the things I wanted in my cart and then I go to check out, and it’s like, okay, enter the one address you want them to go to, and I’m like, I don’t want them to go to one address.

All these different packages are meant to go to different addresses.

And so I went to their FAQ page, and their first question is, no, we don’t support shipping to multiple addresses.

You have to, you know, do each one individually, and it’s like, that sounds like a lot of fun.

And so that’s what I did.

I did them all individually, found a coupon code that I could keep using over and over again, so I saved 10% on each one, very exciting, and my gifts are out.

That’s topic A for today.

There’s also a topic B, and here it begins.

As you now know well, perhaps too well, perhaps annoyingly well, I am gearing up for my production of Elf early next year, late February, early March, and, you know, my kids often support the shows that I’m in.

When they’re allowed to see them, everybody will see Elf.

I mean, if both parents were in Elf, it’d be crazy if they didn’t go see it, but that’s a family-friendly one, obviously.

Avenue Q, not all of them went to go see it.

So I’ve really been curious about how they’re going to feel about Misery.

Sierra has seen scary plays before, and she commented on how she was surprised by how scary a play could be, but that it really was scary, that seeing a play was, you know, that was meant to be scary.

You know, she had jump scares and moody scariness and all those things.

So I was saying to them, like, nobody has to go see this show if you’re concerned about being scared.

I won’t be offended, and, you know, let me know.

And Sierra thought about it for a bit and concluded, well, I think it’ll be funny because it’s you.

Meaning, like, I will know that you aren’t in any danger because I know who you are, so I think it’ll be less scary.

So we’ll see if that plays out.

My goal will be to scare the crap out of my kid, not literally, although it’s not my job to clean the theater.

I’ve never done a rehearsal process for a show with a cast quite this small.

Avenue Q is 11 people.

This is three, and the vast majority of it is two people.

So that’ll be interesting, I guess.

And yeah, I’m already afraid, not of the plotline of the show, but of the memorization that’s going to be required.

It’s a lot of lines.

It’s a lot of lines.

And the, you know, there are some violent scenes that have some cool effects that they’re planning to do, and I have decided that for some of my fear, I’m going to assume that the effects that they’re planning go wrong and I actually get hurt, and I will use that to drive the fear that my character of Paul needs to be feeling while under the hateful gaze of his biggest fan.

Yeah.

And Elf is continuing to come along.

We have a couple days off and then an extremely long rehearsal this Saturday, so that’ll be exciting.

And I truly am excited to go from having to learn choreography to getting to do a whole lot of stuff in a wheelchair and a bed.

Truly the part I was born to play.

Anyway, if you’re in the United States, happy Thanksgiving.

If you’re not, have a great Thursday tomorrow.

I wish you that.

But for now, all of us can agree on one thing, right?

Happy Wednesday.

Lex!