First dog watch, 2 bells (5:08 pm)
Remember the chipmunk? I caught him this past weekend!
I sent out an email to the office, letting everyone know the rodent menace is gone. Here's what I wrote (with some name editing):
For those of you that don't know, Friday we spotted a chipmunk running through the office, hiding in and under cubicles, chewing on the power cables, sniffing data packets, and being a general nuisance. My first thought was corporate espionage--he'd been sent by a competitor to muck up the works. I procured a trap, and with some particularly tasty bait (peanuts ala JS), set about to catch him when he got the munchies. By Sunday the chipmunk succumbed to the aroma of food, much like employees around 9am on the weekdays, and was caught. I interrogated him and found he didn't know anything about software at all, but discovered he was an advance scout for a chipmunk invasion. After negotiating a non-aggression treaty with the chipmunk representative I released him in the wild. He promised we wouldn't see any more of them, and I told him if I did I'd take them to meet my cat, so I think we're pretty safe now.
Snacks are distributed in the break room around 9am every weekday, to explain the inside joke.
First dog watch, 2 bells (5:05 pm)
You don't have to be a computer expert to play this game!
Spot the problem with this computer part:
Yes, that is a burnt ATX power connector, the part that feeds power to the motherboard. This happened to my wife's uncle.
Sorry for the focus, my cell phone's camera isn't terribly great.