What's Going On

It's United Way week here at the office, which means several things:

- M-Kay is collecting cakes in her cubicle at the moment (including one baked by yours truly that I think looks fantastic -- I just hope it tastes okay).

- Mr. B and seven others are bracing themselves for the dunk tank this afternoon ... which hopefully won't get delayed by lightning.

- We're all contributing five dollars at a time in the hopes of winning one of the baskets being raffled.

- There are more people in jeans than usual on a Tuesday morning.

- It's way too easy to get distracted by things that are, by definition, more interesting than tracking down Cp/Cv ratios.

(Actually, most things are, by definition, more interesting than tracking down Cp/Cv ratios.)

There's also a horseshoe tournament this evening, a Jenga tournament tomorrow, ladder golf on Thursday, and probably eight other things I'm forgetting.

Yeah. The UW committee here kind of goes all out.

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