Asparagus tip tips, and first world problems

So I washed and washed the asparagus to get the sand out, then you know about determining where the tender part of the asparagus tip ends? I used to grow it, so I've done a lot of this.

You snap each stalk. Where it breaks is where the tip ends and the tougher part starts. It tells you.

So here, tips for steaming, and stalks for soup.

Meanwhile back at the dryer. The supplier now tells me the dryer I told him about does after all exist, but he has no mounting  bracket and installers are on leave because of the virus.

I had found the dryer he said didn't exist, he grudgingly found it's still made, but, oh oh..the mfr won't take orders, made in China, completely shut down. No dryer, no bracket, no installer. Aside from that, Mrs Lincoln.. I'm pursuing another supplier but not with much hope.

First world problem, but I'm still not impressed that the supplier guy claimed the dryer didn't exist. Claimed their chief salesman agreed with him (!) One o' them there hoaxes.