Oh my god, I want to come to your house for dinner! Lol
I think family dinners are one of the really nice things about living in a household with several people. There’s just something special about the warmth of communal dining. As an accomplished home cook, I’m so much happier when I can cook for someone, and rarely bother to cook elaborately for myself.
I love your whole story, and we should chat about antennas and radios one day. When I was an intelligence officer in the Air Force, I worked at a radio collection facility with access to some of the coolest antennas you’ve ever heard about. Lol. With some of the most sensitive radio receivers available. It was so much fun!