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Today, I had planned to play "hooky" from work a bit, and leave in the early afternoon to spend a couple hours in my favorite pipe shop. I had heard that a few new varieties of leaf were going to be available today. I was mentally salivating like Pavlov's dogs most of the morning while I thought of the adventure.

Unfortunately, I did not get to visit the pipe shop. As students are getting ready to register for January classes, I had a steady stream of students all afternoon (after my classes) seeking advice about their courses and their programs. It is helpful work, and it is nice to have that one-on-one time with the students, but after about 8 or 9 of them in one day, you get fairly tired. I did not get to leave until nearly 5pm and as such it was too late to get to the pipe shop (45 minutes away) and back today.

Maybe I will be able to sneak out tommorrow.