It's that time of the year again. The time where I have to dawn my suit and sit through eight hours of boring business talk on an uncomfortable chair... in a giant hall... with the grip of IT people.

*sigh* Hopefully the gift is going to be something a bit better than a khaki colored wind breaker from last year. This is not to say the windbreaker was bad or anything.. It's just hard for me to wear it with my standard work attire.. of khaki colored pants. I don't want to be *that* guy.

The 4gb jump drive from the year prior to the windbreaker gives me hope that something cool might popup. The economy though says probably not.

A new change this year is instead of just *one* day of fun we have *two*. OMG?! PWNIES?!@ 4REALZ!?!! TWO DAYZ?!? KTHNXBI! I can hardly contain myself. I think redbull and booze should push me through.

The mercs from everyone's teams are invited. I wonder if the higher ups fear they might rob us while we are gone? Can't we get a few trades-guys to come in and watch our shit? It would get them out of the cold for a bit. I was hoping for two days away from meeting? and bloopers but I guess not. On the semi plus side I believe the evil-umpa-lumpa / pedo-panda-watch will be there. I will have to cajole Falloutboy into snapping a photo of me with evil-umpa-lumpa in the frame.

On a side note I spent a good chunk of today looking into virtual reality hardware. I figured *something* must have come down in price. Nope. Not really. There's some janky hand thing that's running for about $60.. but I don't know about it. Totally build up a matrix reality around me... perhaps even something from lawnmower man!

I might have to settle for something more useful like:
spacenavigator