Email I Just Sent to the Office
When you take the last of any type of beverage from the drink fridge in the copy & supplies room, it is up to you to undertake the long and arduous journey to the drinks & supplies closet. Yes, you will undergo many perilous tasks in securing more tasty beverages from the closet gnomes (thankfully the troll infestation has been cleared) but you will win the admiration and sincere thanks of your coworkers. Plus your coworkers will not have a cranky Monday start when they discover there is no cold fizzy water after their hot and sweaty metro trip.
M Chat Sighting
I was sauntering up 7th Ave in New York City yesterday working my way toward Penn Station after a business meeting in the Meatpacking district when I spotted the same graffiti cat I had fallen in love with in Paris. I hadn’t realized Monsieur Chat had made it to the US so this was a very happy surprise.
Paris
NYC
Mom, before you worry about me in places like the Meatpacking district - it is now full of high-end fashion houses (including one of my clients) and over a hundred people waiting in line to buy a new iPhone at the Apple store. The worst crowds I have ever experienced, thicker by far than anything I have ever seen at Walt Disney World, were at Penn Station at rush hour. I suspect the sold out Bon Jovi show at Madison Square Garden certainly helped the body count.
Well that is something different.
Armored Car Robbery in front of my building
Originally uploaded by Karon
Walked out to get some lunch and wondered why there were so many unmarked police cars double-parked on the street but I chalked it up to some bigwig eating at Smith & Wolensky. Coming back I noticed the armored car and videographer so I jokingly asked one of the passport office guards if the car had been robbed. Yep, that is exactly what happened. Amazingly bold considered the amount of car and foot traffic in the area and armed guards in the building.
Update: This news report is awesome. My whole office is betting on it being an inside job.
Contractor Swag
Originally uploaded by Karon
One of our contractors brought by stress balls and bamboo plants in half pots. The backside of the pot has velcro so that you could stick it to the wall and the company’s name is on the front but I deliberately cropped that out of the shot. I wanted to round up all the plants and create some elaborate design on a blank wall in the hopes the bamboo would grow into some intricate knot. But energy level did not equal my ambition. And then there was a client issue to deal with. So the plant sits in my window.
Hey DC!
It is gorgeous outside. Let’s ditch work and meet at the zoo at 2:30. Our bosses don’t know each other. They will never make the connection of people becoming suddenly ill on the Friday before a three day weekend.
Hmmm, maybe it will look a tad suspicious.
It Was Pretty While It Lasted
I Want a Snow Day
It is all oletheros’s fault for putting that in my head. Our corporate office in Cambridge got a snow day today thanks to Boston declaring a snow emergency. Of course Boston also thought lightbright style images from Aqua Team Hunger Force were a terrorist threat so their definition of emergency is already suspect. We only got pizza ordered in for lunch. Sure, pizza is nice but it is not the same as playing in the snow.