At Work.

.....On the pier near my office today there was a group of Shop 64 Shipwrights and Insulators working on the side of a submarine. The weather was rough today and they worked through it all. The sideways rain, the wind, the pellets of ice, the snow, and even the occasional bits of sunshine that filtered through.

.....It was not difficult to remember back some fifteen years or so ago when I was one of them on the side of a submarine at the pier. The rain would be driving in sideways at just above freezing. It didn't seem to matter how well you bundled yourself, you could still look forward to being soaked to the bone in a couple of hours.

.....I was a lot younger and much less of a wimp then. It wasn't such a big deal to come inside the work hangout and warm up for a few moments before going back out into it. But age has definitely turned me into a weather wimp. :-) A couple of hours of that these days and I'd whine like crazy. :-)

.....My office companions have definitely proven just how weird they are. I went away for a meeting in the morning and when I had made it back to my desk just before lunch I found this hanging off of my monitor:



.....It's not like I've never heard the joke before. But the picture was just a little creepy. :-) Although it could be that I was never a fan of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Mom says that I would never sit still and watch it. I always thought it boring. Now, if it had been 'Professor Tolkien's Neighborhood', that might have been a whole different story. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.