Working

There were a few big things that happened at work this past week.

First, there was the opportunity to run in a race that was a lot of fun.  There have been a few marathons that I missed due to work, but I got to run one last weekend and then go immediately back to work.  It was essentially the worst idea ever and nearly impossible to stay awake during one of our briefings halfway through the day, but it was completely worth it to get to run another marathon with some people out here!

Second, we had what we thought was an enormous breakthrough.  There was much rejoicing and we managed to feel elated for three full days.  It wasn’t until we were starting to wrap up one of our programs that someone tossed a wrench in the plans and basically tossed us back to the beginning.  We weren’t frustrated (that has happened before, we have kind of come to expect it) we were mostly just disappointed that we had used all our confetti and streamers for the first celebration when we’ll definitely need some for the next time we are partying upon completion.

Third, it has been determined that the single most used item of technology in our group is a Kindle.  Every single one of us has one and we all use it more here than we have any other time.  We trade books so each of us can get exposure to types of books we may not have seen, we trade reviews of books to buy and we trade Kindles if we two people have books the others want to read.  The only bad thing about having that much literature at your fingertips is the insatiable need to purchase more books.  My brain thanks me, my bank account does not.