Team outing

Published on 07-03-2004 at 8:40pm

Today was great. My normal work hours are 8:30 to 5:30 (but 6-6:30 is more the norm). So I get to work at 8:30am, read a few work emails and news articles, check some processes on the system, yada, yada, yada. At 10:30 I start preping some food for a picnic lunch at the bbq pits. 11am the picnic lunch starts. At 12:30 we head off on a scavenger hunt. The goal is to get digital pictures of all the listed items. So we hop in a car and head out. We are almost all of the way thru and our camera battery DIES. It wont even close the shutter, D-E-A-D dead.

But luckily we ran into a team mate, on a competing team, and talk him out of his camera. We go and reshoot all of the pictures we had already made. There are a few items that we had photographed at headquarters so we are pulling back into the parking lot at work. And we realize that a few of the re-made pictures did not meet the rules. Doh! And since the other teams are already heading to the meeting spot, we concede defeat and go join the group (last I might add).

The meeting spot is at SpeedZone, a gocart / minigolf / arcade type place. Management had gotten a group package which included a card w/unlimited play on it … cool! So we play a couple of games, ride the gocarts, race each other at the drag strip, and race the clock at the grand prix. You get 3 runs at the drag strip and guess who took all 3 rounds, if you guessed me then you're a winner too! I took best track time at the grand prix too. Kinda makes up for the whole camera / booby prize incident.

After that was over a bunch of us stayed around and hung out to let rush hour traffic die down.

Oh yeah, the winners of the scavenger hunt get another half day off. What a cool place to work for … are ya jealous?