retirement cake

 no, not for me. there were two events around midday where i was willing to leave the shop. the first was puppy day, my second time at that event, in the other tower of the building. it was nice to see people who recognized me and we spoke some about performing, but i can't think of the young lady's name at the table. she did speak of going to De LaSalle, though. it was after i said i was a big Charlie Brown fan and had found many of those statues, and i was told there is one at that school. now it means finding out how to get there and get a picture of it. i had found over a hundred of those but i had run out of ideas a while back. i did hold one of the dogs while there, much like before. then it was on to the floor where i had some of the cake for a retirement party, and i had some Coca-Cola as well as all of the drinks were in two-liter bottles. i like knowing that there are bank employees who leave due to retirement, it sure beats all of the layoffs i had witnessed at previous jobs. a colleague in I.T. asked about my commute, knowing i take the blue line. something about how it took him over an hour to get to work. when i spoke of taking two buses, and one of them was an express bus between the downtowns, the dude said that sounded like a good idea, having spoken of living in Woodbury before.