Screenshot a handful of business purpose comments and upload the ss'ed images as attachments because, ridiculously, journal-voucher processors can't access trx comments directly. In business info management this is what we call a "data silo" and these kinds of bottlenecks are one of the first things you try to iron out when you're engineering biz process.

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Xenoverse binge continued: Aliens (1986, James Cameron dir.)
Set in 2179, Aliens was the second installment in the franchise, but pushed to relatively late in the Xenoverse chronology by a dozen prequels and retcons.

Among the bonus-features deleted scenes there's one where Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley asks about her daughter, 10 years old when Ripley signed up for he Nostromo's space-freighter mission. Burke tries to change the subject but eventually reveals Amanda Ripley daughter grew up, lived a full life, and died in her mid-60s on Earth, all while Ripley was adrift for decade years in cryosleep. This might be the only place the franchise treats the potential weirdness of cryosleep. It also would have lent more depth to Ripley's instant connection with the ("Newt").

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Protein Cocoa thoughts
I have some 44 packets of protein cocoa in the pipeline. If I use it every weekday then that's just short of 9 weeks, which takes us to nearly the end of March.

Usually I source from Wholesome Provisions, 5-10 boxes of 7 packets each at a time, to dodge shipping and leverage bulk pricing. It's super convenient but I feel like the packaging must impose a lot of unnecessary cost. (And eco-unfriendly waste - are the packets a foil/paper laminate? plasticized?) So I got thinking, what would I have to mix to get a comparable finished product? Cheap store-brand cocoa plus bulk whey protein powder? Bulk plain cocoa powder plus bulk whey protein powder plus the bare minimum of sugar to not taste like chalk-olate?

The Big Man's World blog: Protein Hot Chocolate
This guy says he uses pea protein powder (vegan) but the actual recipe section links to a rainforest item page for chocolate-preflavored casein protein powder. Then you add yet more cocoa powder, and what looks like rather a lot of poison sugar if you ask me. So I suspect he's as full of malarkey as you might reasonably expect from a fitness/nutrition "influencer" blog laced with affiliate link monetization.

Also, the casein protein packaging says 24g protein per serving, but the article initially claims "over 30g" per serving, but the recipe nutrition info block says 30g ... so there seems to be a bit of an inflated math hype issue with this guy. Not that I was going to drop $70 just for the casein powder when I could spend about the same (and maybe even less after sourcing the additional cocoa powder) for conveniently pre-packetized from Wholesome Provs.