Some recent highlights:

-I saw a summer sausage at Walmart tonight, and was reminded (back me up on this, magpi) that the most random things happen at 1:30 in the morning at LEGO conventions.

-My key chain is marginally heavier and infinitely cooler thanks to Black Six.

-I don't know what the physical therapists are thinking: shoulder impingement or weak rotator cuff muscles can't be related to tendinitis of the deltoid, can they? They do realize the pain is in the shoulder area and not in the shoulder itself, right?

-I have been a terrible coordinator for BrickFair: tomorrow is the first time I'm going to have time to mail off the two packages that were mailed to me here.

-Sarah Brendel, Erin O'Donnell. Why do I keep forgetting these names when I get to the Family Christian Store?

-I'm sure I'm going to have to pare this list a bit, but I want to see how long it gets first.

And, for the first time all year, something post-worthy in my email.

HOW TO PROPERLY PLACE NEW EMPLOYEES

 

1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.

2. Put your new hires in the room and close the door.

3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.

4. Then analyze the situation:

a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting Department.

b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing.

c. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering.

d. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning.

e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.

f. If they are sleeping, put them in Security.

g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology.

h. If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.

i. If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.

j. If they have already left for the day, put them in Management.

k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.

l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in Top Management.

m. Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such away that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Congress.

-KIE