5 Year Anniversary

It's the big 5 year anniversary with Candy coming up on Halloween. Well, at least I consider us starting to go out on Halloween. Anyway, I have some big plans and I think I managed Candy to pressure her into getting me something too:)

My original plan was to go on a brunch cruise on the Potomac river and see the sites for a few hours. However, those plans changed due to a bit of a bad reference to the cruise operators through work. About maybe a month ago, there was a dinner/dance event through work that cost $65, discounted from $90, that around a hundred people from work went on. About 40 people or so got violently ill from the food that they served. It was such a big deal that the state got into investigating the event. Apparently, the state got stool samples from those that got sick (A funny side note was between a couple of coworkers. My friend Dave was talking to another friend Tonia and she asked him to guess what he was standing next to in her cooler ...) and the test come back positive for a food born illness.

This result was different from what the company originally said when some coworkers called them and asked for a refund because they got sick. The company told multiple people the exact same thing that they must have come down with the flu. Yeah, about 40 people coming down with the flu in the same period of time.

As far as any action being taken against the company, I am not sure. I think the department of health is still doing stuff with the case and I haven't heard anything else since then.

For obvious reasons, I decided to abandon the brunch idea and came up with another idea.

Daylight savings time and work

Last Friday, I left for work in the dark and came back when it was light out. Today, I left in the daylight and came back in the dark:)

This week at work is a good one for me. I just got my promotion and got bumped up a few grades and steps in pay, which is nice. I also got selected to be on a laptop pilot program. This allows me to work overtime from home because the USPTO will give me a laptop and a wireless router that will allow me to connect to my computer at home. So I will probably be working some extra overtime from home and getting some big bucks.

A few of my friends at work are moving out to window offices this week. I was talking with Rob, another coworker across the hall, that we'll probably never get window offices because it will require lots of people to either quit or start working at home. Hopefully the office will give more incentives to get people to telework and allow us newbies the chance at a window office in a few years:)