Remember that company scavenger hunt I took part in last month? The one my team won, even though I lost them somewhere between the first and second clues? The one that landed me a couple of free beers, a golden whistle (that’s right), and bragging rights even though I did practically none of the work and only a fraction of the running that my teammates did? (I mean, I gave ten bucks to charity to participate, but that’s it.)
Yeah, today it got me free pizza for lunch.
I’d forgotten that there was a pizza party for the winning team, assuming of course I ever knew it, and the scavenger hunt itself was over a month ago. But it was a nice lunch, and good pizza, and an unexpected treat. Of course, when my teammates (and the HR person joining us) all started comparing their cell phones, I could only say, “Well, I have an iPhone on order. Because I do; I upgraded last Friday, finally ditching my current phone (which I have never much liked) for something shiny and new. But because I couldn’t get the website to accept in-store pickup after it had located the store for me — it’s right around the block from the house, almost literally — I’ve had to wait for it to be shipped. And so I didn’t have a phone to take out and compare. If the pizza party had happened on Thursday…well, that might have been another story.
Other than that, it was a busy day. I didn’t quite finish doing the thing I desperately hoped I would finish, but I think tomorrow I can put it to bed. Which will be nice.
Meanwhile, this evening I finished reading Neil Gaiman’s short novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane. As I noted on Twitter, it may be the strangest, truest, and best thing he’s ever written. I liked it a lot.
And that was…wait, it’s seriously only Tuesday? Gah.