ChainsawPenguin.com
  • The California Adventure
  • SPIDER HUNT
  • Jim's Warhammer 40K Adventure

Day 171

12/10/2012

1 Comment

 
Day 171: You may recall, gentle reader, that my work sometimes involves pandas, or rhinoceri, or whatever animal pops into my head for that afternoon's analogy.  Since what I actually do is write tax software (hey, there, no dozing off, right?), I tend to come up with clever analogies, generally involving some cute animal.

So here's what happened today:

I was told to go take a look at the new animal, or possibly animals, and come up with a plan to systematically measure and prepare a new display environment for it, or possibly them.  I went over to the new animal area, and there are a lot of watermelons.  I think the new animals must eat them, or something.  One of the watermelons is as big as my car.  One of the watermelons is completely hollow, which is weird.  One of them is bouncing.

So I'm standing there, looking around, and there are no animals to be seen.  It slowly dawns on me that the zookeeper thinks that these loopy watermelons are animals.  These are not animals.  These are a colossal mistake.

But the zookeeper's gone off on vacation, and the assistant zookeeper is also on vacation (it's that time of year), and at some point one or more zookeepers are going to wonder why I haven't built the new animal enclosure, and I'm going to have to point out the gigantic one and the hollow one and the bouncy one and explain, patiently, that these are frickin' WATERMELONS!!

I have a weird job.  Is my point.

Tomorrow, ADVENTURE!! :)
1 Comment
R
1/3/2013 02:43:56 pm

I work about 12 feet from you and I have NO IDEA what you are talking about.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    A small-town southern boy heads out west for the first time.  Adventure ensues!!

    Archives

    October 2017
    October 2015
    May 2015
    October 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012

    Categories

    All

    Submit

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.