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When Will Our Table Be Ready at Kura Revolving Sushi Bar!?

We celebrated my stepson's 15th birthday yesterday by me making him whoopie pies, his father taking him bouldering, and finally a birthday dinner at Kura Sushi. Virus Super-spreading, Automated Contrary to all pandemic logic, there was a FIVE HOUR WAIT at Kura yesterday.  Via their sub-mediocre app, you can get on a waitlist.  Your displayed wait time never decreases, but the number of people ahead of you waiting for a table does go down. We ain't even trying  to hang out in a COVIDful waiting area for 5 hours, so i chucked together a handy graph to predict exactly when our table would be ready! So we jumped in the car at 6:10! Now i know what you're thinking:  "Kristen, linear regression?!  Really?  This' clearly a job for logarithmic decay!"  Well, calm down.  The regressions were basically the same at predicting when our table would be ready, and i threw this together during boring scenes of Squid Game . Alright, see you in less than 2 years ho...

What Happens When I Can't Get to Excel?

In life, sometimes it's hard to get to your spreadsheets.  Maybe you're playing a computer game that takes up your entire screen, and you can't reach your netbook that's on your home network and accesses all those spreadsheets you've stored on your shared external hard drive. Or maybe you're researching RAM cards so said computer game will run faster, but you're using the POS computer you hacked into at your bartending job.  Anyway, in such instances, you have to use nature's spreadsheet:  paper.  Here're some sweet examples of my less digital spreadsheets.    Best for you?