It is that time again to clear out the micro SD card on the cell phone and try to remember the reason I decided to take the pictures in the first place.
Last month there was a workshop for a project that I am assigned to at work. There were 8 of us (give or take) holed up in a meeting room for the better part of 3 days. At a moment of either clarity or frustration I suggested that we solve everything by simply asking our end users to choose between fast, cheap or correct (since we could not provide all 3 and were struggling even to provide any 2 of the 3). Someone scribbled it on a white board and I snapped this photo. I still think this is a good idea but I was in the minority.
During that same workshop we took an evening to have a team dinner. We went to a very nice restaurant close by and this is what I ordered. The thing on the right was actually (almost) raw fish. I did not know that when I ordered it but not wanting to seem unprofessional and unknowledgeable I ate most of it. I have had sushi before and I find that raw fish has almost no flavor and I do not much care for the texture. The steak (left) and rice (middle) was very good (as was the wine that we ordered).
A few nights after the team dinner we had one of the workshop attendees over for dinner. He is a long time friend and this is what the wife made for desert that night. This is a completely homemade strawberry short cake. Even the whipped cream was really whipped by the wife. It was great.
When my mother was here in mid February she gave me a large bag of Easter M&M’s. Since I was in the middle of outsourcing my body I did not open them up while she was here with us. I decided that I would open up the bag when I got within 10 lbs. of my weight goal. The kids were very excited as (presumably) I would share the candy once it was open. Each week (I only weighed myself once a week) the kids would ask if we could open the bag yet. This gave me a team to root me on in my weight battle (even if they had selfish motives). Once the bag was open I followed my normal M&M distribution plan. This involves separating them by color and then having a rock, paper, scissors contest to determine who got to pick their color first. The person who finishes last gets the remaining 2 colors (which is usually more M&M’s than the winner gets). I ended up coming in 3rd place in the tournament which unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) gave me the lease amount of candy.
There is an entirely logical reason why I am wearing a pink mask. The wife recently participated in a race called the Warrior Dash. She and several of her friends entered this obstacle course / race together and decided to make up team outfits. This entailed t-shirts, a leather belt / skirt of sorts, leather head bands and face paint. On the day of the race we all went to one of the entrant’s house and they finished up their outfits and donned their face paint. I had some time to kill so I took one of the cut off sleeves of the t-shirts and cut eyeholes and wore it around the house. This gave the son an idea and he quickly worked with the scraps to create his own outfit of sorts.
Here is the mud pit near the finish line of the Warrior Dash. After running through the entire course, you jump over some fire (just to the left of the mud pit) and then you army crawl (there is barbed wire forcing you down) through mud. The kids and I had over an hour to kill (the wife finished around 700th place overall for her age / gender grouping) and we hung out around the finish line and watched everyone get muddy.
Well the micro SD card is cleared out once again. Thanks for reading my blog.
Jon
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