Mundania
This is life as a cog in a BigCo wheel:
1. This week I got a “ship-it” prize for helping to ship Windows Server 2003. I am not sure what I did to help ship Windows Server 2003, but I snatched it and ran before they had a chance to notice anything wrong.
2. Yesterday was “take your son or daughter to work day”. My daughter made shapes with my Mega-Magz and disrupted an important conference call.
3. Ciam mentions the Canadian Geese. For some reason I am reminded of my tenure at Ameritech (now SBC), and the yearly entertainment when the geese declared open season on office ladies and would chase the women across the parking lot.
4. All of the cafeterias and starbucks on campus allow us to use our smart-card embedded badges to pay for food. This week they are running a special where every dollar you deposit to your badge is matched by a 10% deposit from MSFT. So I deposited $120 this week, feeling clever about the 4 free lattes that I am getting.
5.The cafes on campus do the typical “buy 10, get one free” punch cards for lattes. I finally caved and started a card of my own yesterday.
6.Yesterday was the Windows Server2003 launch on campus. They decorated our cafeteria, and handed out free Krispy Kremes (a box per person).