You gotta love this guy...

I know some of you out there will probably be thinking, "aww, poor guy!" - but if you knew him, you would know he is a "character" (to say the least!) and this is just hilarious...

Quote of the week occurred yesterday when I was sitting at my desk:

Nico - "Hey Marc, you gotta go get your picture taken with Simon...he is PASSED the hell out at his desk!"

Unfortunately, I arrived too late for my picture to be taken, but Simon remained clueless:


Fortunately, many other pictures were taken before he woke up :-) Too bad I didn't get there in time!











Gotta love Simon!

Office pranks = hilarious

Yesterday, while on my way to leave for dinner, I saw a couple of office-mates gathered around a nearby desk.

So I went to investigate...


Apparently, for the past couple of weeks a few guys have been lowering a coworker's desk ever so slightly each day.

This went completely unnoticed.

So they also started moving his desk back, closer to the wall - again, ever so slightly each day.

This also went unnoticed.

Yesterday, several desks were found that match our current desks in every way, except that they are about 25% smaller in surface area...one was immediately switched with his desk. It was then debated whether they should again lower the new smaller desk, like normal for the daily adjustment. It was assumed that he would have to notice both changes at once - but eventually agreed to just do it.

The end result:


He's working as if everything was the same!

LLOL!

-m

Wow, update much?

I've decided that I am going to update my web log, or blog, at least once a week with something meaningful from me (this means posts that only include a quote(s) do not count).

I wonder how long this will last :-)

My lesson in ping-pong...Chinese style.

So today I was schooled in ping-pong by the Chinese guys that sit next to me a work.

And when I say "schooled," I mean I was worked over like a little girl trying to play basketball on a court in the streets of Philly...it was ugly.

To be sure, I knew said ass kicking was coming because (a) they had their own paddles (in their own case/bag like a tennis racket) and (b) one of the guys asked me if I was really going to play in my flip-flops!

Also, I tried playing with one of their offered personal paddles, but it was oddly too padded and I was hitting balls awkwardly. I had to switch to one of the "shitty paddles" that Google had with the table - though I felt it was a nice normal paddle and much more like what I was used to playing with.


I might take a video tomorrow so you guys can see what I am talking about...think Forest Gump...twas not much fun to try and play (or defend myself!) against them, but it was fun to watch.

I don't think ping-pong is taken as seriously here as there, but I most definitely ended the event by challenging them all to a game of beer-pong at their earliest convenience :-)

Hey...I just said something and I'm gonna quote myself....haha, toot! toot!

"Religion is like one big joke that most people never get..." Me, 06/04/10

Mark Twain's Predictions...

After a 100 year delayed request by the author, Mark Twain's autobiography comes out this year :-)

With that information, I figured I'd share a prediction he had:

"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together." Mark Twain (1909)


His prediction was accurate – Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.

I don't want this to just become me posting Quotes....but...

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited to long to make..." - unknown

I know I have been quote crazy, but I liked this...



And I promise to finish the TWO posts I have started to write...soon.