I wanted to get a good shot of the small herd of domestic goats that walked past our office door, but I was not fast enough. I got this picture as the exited out the back of the parking lot around the side of the building. You cannot see them so well, but I wanted to preserve the evidence for posterity. There is a ton of wildlife around here. I saw my first javelina in the wild on the side of the road beside a fire station in a subdivision a couple of blocks from my hotel. Very cool.
That is not the only thing going on. Our regular “Software Thursday” (sometimes it falls on Wednesday, Friday or whatever else works) meeting of John, Forrest, Mark and I was converted into a going away party for our boss, Mark. Mark has been a truly excellent boss. We are on a tough project and we yell at each other passionately on a semi-regular basis, but we got each others back. The rest of the team hates to see Mark leave. The new guy has been here a couple of weeks and seems to be very good, but he is still getting acclimated.
We talked about the importance of maintaining professional contact with your workmates after you leave a job. It has always accrued for good every time I ever did it and I still work with a core team of people from a job I took in Corvallis over thirty years ago. The old saying is true, “If I would have known I would still be working with them thirty years later, I would have treated them nicer.” The more things change the more they stay the same.
Betty Blonde #192 – 04/10/2009
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