mundania
Mundania - Upgraded to Windows XP Professional RTM build today (I was previously running build 2505, this is 2600). Today I am feeling more comfortable about progress on the new project; everyone seems engaged and incredibly competent. Tomorrow the whole day will be blown with the company-wide meeting at Safeco Field, and Monday is labor day, so things will be lazy up until next tuesday.
Today the buzz around town was mostly outrage over the bad reputation Seattle is getting due to some cranky motorists yesterday. Some woman yesterday threatened to jump off of a very strategically positioned I-5 bridge, causing almost instantaneous gridlock for the entire area (including eastern suburbs where I live and work, 15 miles away). During the three hours that she held the city hostage and blew millions of dollars of everyone else’s productivity, angry motorists stranded by the pileup shouted at her to just hurry up and jump and screamed obscenities at her. Eventually she did jump, and is in the hospital now. People here are really upset that our fair city got caught being so mean to a troubled person like that. Now the hospital switchboard is getting deluged by people trying to say nice things to her (which has never happened for any other bridge-jumper in this area before). Groupthink is a very peculiar thing.