So Friday was a fun day at work. I got there a little early, bought a coffee and set to work on our staff meeting, helping to lead the discussion and generally having a good time. Then about fifteen minutes after the meeting started we heard this announcement over the PA system "Code 10 in the lobby, Code 10 in the lobby ( Read more... )

I am now in my third week of being sick and it always seems to get worse on Thursdays. Today I woke up feeling crappy and stuffed up and well, just generally sick. So I stayed home from work today (as I have done basically for three Thursdays in a row). I always feel so guilty when I stay home from work, even if it's for a legitimate reason. I ( Read more... )

Today I was watching Unwrapped (this show on the Food Network featuring Mark Summers, where the go into how different foods are made and how the are mass produced) and the feature was breakfast foods. They were talking about eggs and how one company tries to measure the cholesterol in eggs using a Gas Chromatograph. And guess whose GC they were ( Read more... )

So remember how I wrote about the building being 90 degrees the other day? Well, yesterday we had a whole different issue. There is significant construction going on across the street from our building and apparently some guy in a backhoe hit the main power line for the area and knocked out the power for our building as well as all the offices in a ( Read more... )

Want to know how much fun it was at work yesterday? Picture this: You're riding the elevator up to the 5th floor when all of a sudden you feel a wave of heat. "Oh my god," you think, "the building is on fire". But when the doors open there is no blazing inferno, only a bunch of maintenance people running around and employees stripping off the ( Read more... )

I, like everyone else who uses cash, accumulate a great deal of change. There is a special place in my desk drawer at work where all my pennies, dimes, nickles and quarters are deposited. I don't really think about it, just root around in my pocket and dump whatever change my fingers come across into this drawer. Today I decided that I would like ( Read more... )

The system is down ( Read more... )

Someone told me the coolest "Friday" saying in the whole world today. It's way better than TGIF ( Read more... )

Officially the worst day I have had in a long while. The whining shall now commence.

Not only has today been full of stress and awkwardness, but now I have just done the stupidest thing ( Read more... )

Since it's still a few hours until I get to eat turkey and I have nothing better to do, I think it's time to spend a few moments thinking.

( Cut for length, it's a bit of a tale )