Egg Sauce, Ted

Welp, today was a big tug of war between my well-wishers and my students, battling for the outcome of the day. Heavy casualties. I am so thankful that I got to have a fun birthday celebration BEFOREhand, because I couldn't deal with one today with the requisite jubilation. Yet the end is not in sight.
Several of my students wished me happy birthday, which was nice, and I'm glad to see that everyone appears to have reasonable grades.
I returned 55 bottles to the liquor store. I still have many to return to the soda company. I am all for higher bottle deposits. However, a friend argued that higher bottle deposits would be bad for the homeless population, since people wouldn't readily discard their bottles. I see the point, but don't think it should prevent, say, a 20 or 10 cent deposit. The soda bottles have a 30 cent deposit, but you surely wouldnt be able to collect that from anyone but Hosmer itself. Their box says "reusing is better than recycling," and it's true.