Stanley is
leaving our group to work for Veritas, writing software. We took him
out to lunch at Chao Praya. First person who's left in a while -- maybe
a couple of years. It's kind of sad when someone you know leaves, it's
not like you'll really see him again. You take your coworkers for
granted and even though I don't know them that well, they are a
constant presence and it'll be strange not having him around. Still, I
wish him well and life goes on.
Of course, now I'm amazingly full and sluggish, even four hours after
eating. I can pack away a lot of food. I ordered curry fried rice and
it was really good, as was the other fried rice dish someone else
ordered. Most everything else was ok and people liked it. This is the
third time I've been to the restaurant, once with my sister and twice
with my coworkers.
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We had a fire
drill yesterday. It consists of this loud alarm and a voice repeating
something about evacuating the building in an orderly fashion. There
are also these lights that flash at long intervals. The procedure
consists of people milling about wondering if it's a real fire, then we
slowly pack up and head downstairs. Of course the main staircase is
packed with people but luckily I made my way down one of the side
staircases and it was relatively empty. The whole drill took over an
hour.
I mailed my absentee ballot today. Voting to recall Governor Davis,
mostly because during this test of his administration he's been
behaving like a real ass. I don't blame him for what's happened in
California, but I do blame him for bleating like a stuck pig when
people blamed him. I voted for Schwarzenegger since he did score +8 in
my analysis. I also voted no on Prop 53 (I don't like adding more and
more restrictions on how the state spends money) and no on Prop 54
(because I don't think it'll help as much as it hurts, people are still
as discriminatory as in the past).
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