Oct. 8th, 2004

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So, I'd parked in the garage under the building this morning, and was waiting for the elevator in the lower lobby of the building. There's a revolving door and a couple regular doors there that face onto a parking lot out by 28. While I waited, a dark shape moved across in front of the doors. Even before it was fully into the lights outside, I recognized the kind of hunchy-joggy movement that says 'skunk in a little bit of a hurry.' It was one big skunk, too. Larger than the ones I can recall seeing in the wild, before. It scooted along right against the doors, then paused and looked back, then trotted off into the bushes on the other side, and out of sight. A moment later, a woman came walking slowly up, staring after it. I guess the skunk had been in the bushes or on the walk to one side of the door and she'd startled it. She stood there staring after it for a while before rooting around for her passkey to get into the building. The elevator arrived about then, and I got on.

It's kind of neat to see wildlife now and then, other than deer or the too-frequent dead raccoon on the side of the road.
murakozi: (pornovision)
I didn't go to the company picnic this year. Partly because I work at the stables on Sundays. Partly because I can think of better ways to spend part of a weekend, and partly because I forgot about it and didn't rsvp.

They give out a 'gift' to employee there. Last year it was a little fleece-type blanket, suitable for throwing over your legs at a stadium or while in a chair. Not a bad thing at all. People who don't go to the picnic don't lose out. Someone comes around a week or two later and passes out that year's little gift to anyone who wasn't there. I was sitting in my office talking to Programmer Guy, when they came around. Neither of us had been there, so we got this year's picnic gift: an umbrella.

That's not a bad thing to get. Heck, they're practical, and these are full size, not collapsible ones, so two folks can fit under them and stuff. They have an interesting feature though. Most umbrellas come with a sleeve to stick 'em in when not in use, presumably to keep them looking neat or something. Most folks, like me, promptly lose the sleeve. These umbrellas have a sort of telescoping hard plastic sleeve though. Before you open it, you collapse it up to the tip of the umbrella. When you close it, you slide the cover back down.

Apparently a number of folks in my group also didn't go to the picnic, because now there's a bunch of us, sitting there, sliding that stupid sleeve up and down. It's like a really crappy cheap Transformer or something. People just can't stop playing with it, including me. Programmer Guy's comment: Heck, the cover thing is neater than the actual umbrella.

And to further prove my loser geek wannabe status, upon sliding the cover up on mine, I almost immediately thought about how one could put some sort of LED under it, so you had a tapered translucent cylinder that lights up atop your open umbrella. I guess that'd be good for those outdoor raves in the rain or something.
murakozi: (splash)
Gads, the day is really dragging. With so many folks not in the office, it's really quiet and slow. It makes me wish I had a decent amount of vacation hours built up, so I could leave early. Gotta save those hours, though. Mustn't waste them.

So, I'm futzing about with this or that, yakking with coworkers and wasting time, and now and then, just looking out my office window at the brown haze over Reston in the distance.

On another note, I had a weird dream just before waking up, so I was able to actually remember some of it. It was way more coherent than my dreams usually are. I also had another Ellie/water dream. Dunno what's up with those.

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