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Good morning,

A pair of glasses were found this morning in the 4^th floor large conference room.  If anyone lost their glasses please come to the receptionist desk to see if these are yours.

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i love the subject line of this one:

From: [someone who can spell as well as me]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:54 AM
To: [a large distribution list]
Subject: ERRONEOUSE PICK-UP
Importance: High

 

Greetings,

 

We have a misplaced package we need to locate ASAP. The package was delivered on 1/27/09 and was in the staging room on the first floor. The package is a cardboard box approximately 6”x6”x12”. Someone removed it from the staging area without signing for it. If you mistakenly picked it up please return it  ASAP. All the information needed to identify the package is below. Thank you for your time and effort.

 

office world 3

got another office email this morning that is worthy of posting...

White BMW

Good Morning,

If you are the owner or by chance know the owner of a White BMW 335 license number xxc-6382 please advise them that the car has rolled out of it's parking space. Our engineers saw the car rolling and have pushed it back into the space and they are going to put something under the wheel to try and keep it there, but if this is your car please go and take care of it right away. Thank you and have a great day.

loud room

at the house i live in, we have two 'hang out' rooms - a quiet room (upstairs) and a loud room (downstairs). here are my roommates, obviously in the loud room. what a beautimus sound it was...

yet even more from office world

dang....

as if accidentally hitting the "Reply All" button instead of the "Reply" button isn't bad enough. what about when you're accidental "Reply All" response includes a massive, company wide distribution list email address...

the following is an email that i, and everyone in my company, received after a not-so-observant man did a "Reply All" to an email he received from HR. he failed to notice that the email had been sent to a company wide distro list and therefore his response was as well.

Stephanie  
Hi -  lee [last name removed to protect the ignorant] here at [location removed]. my question is did my child support info get straight so i can be sure it gets deducted and send in to kansas child support group etc. if it has been taken care of let me know if not then what do i need to do to make sure it gets taken care of 
Thanks

Lee

And, then, someone decides to do a "Reply All" to his email and so we all get it again along with her comment,

This went out to a HUGE distribution list...might want to double check addressee!!

 

more from office world

for some unknown reason, office emails like this that are blasted out to the masses really crack me up. i can't articulate why, but it certainly does.

Dear All,

The monthly refrigerator cleaning service was cancelled in July, so it is now everyone’s responsibility to make sure that they remain sanitary and spacious enough to hold all employees daily items.  Please take some time to go through the items you have stored to make sure they have not passed their expiration date and/or spoiled.  I am getting reports of obnoxious smells from a few of them……

THANK YOU

barney's response to the election

lower middle manager

spotted this on an office door here in the office. oh office humor...

pumpkin head gone bad...

apparently 2 weeks is too long to have a pumpkin sit in the front yard smiling at people.. even the flies won't bother it any more. although the ants seem ok with it.

office world

sometimes i feel like i'm living out an episode  an entire season of The Office. i love to see the emails that people write and then blast to the distro lists. for some reason i find them really, really funny. some of the best have been threats related to people leaving food in the refrigerator or not covering food in the microwave. today's blast was about chairs. as i said, i don't know why it makes me laugh... but it does. and, i should mention that the subject line of the email is:  Asking Nicely

Anyone using the Conference Room leather chairs as a work chair, please return them to the conference rooms as soon as possible.

 

Anyone needing a standard work chair – mesh back - please let me know as soon as possible.

 

To the person who borrowed the mesh back chair from the first floor cube, please let me know.  I don’t mind that you decided you needed the chair, but I have to know if it was taken by a ManTech employee or stolen.

 

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH

 

I will be walking the space soon so see if all conference room chairs have been returned.  PLEASE don’t make me take them from you…

THANKS AGAIN!

there was this one song from band camp...

i came across this while going through emails this morning. it's from "band camp" this past july. actually, it's songwriting camp -- but it's more fun to call it band camp. yep. i've made the big time... i'm on YouTube.

yadda, yadda, yadda + preaching = good stuff

known for his creative genius, the drummer of cinged blues has created another audio masterpiece. combining the best of two worlds -- cinged blues & preaching on the book of James -- the attached was presented as the offeratory this past weekend at his church. way to go ch! good stuff.

Download 1st_offertory.mp3

life without internet

can you imagine life without internet? i can.... well, almost. i moved in the middle of august and finally got internet in my newest home last week. that's almost 2 months without internet at home. yikes. while i had internet access at work, most sites that i enjoy surfing to were blocked... including my blog (national security issue). ironically enough, the same week i got internet access at home, i changed jobs and then had access to all those sites i enjoy surfing to -- including my blog. so now i'm back and ready to start posting cinged thoughts again. in the meantime, perhaps Al Gore -- "inventor" of the internet -- can invent a faster way for verizon to install FIOS.

back, back in the cube again

yesterday was my first day at my new job. let's see... i read some stuff, walked around the complex, surfed the news websites on the internet, found the "cafeteria", searched for upcoming concerts, talked smack with new coworkers, and then went home. yes, it's good to be back working again. and, the best part -- i'm assured of a job here until the end of september. wow, that's great.......

i share a cube. i've never shared a cube before. it's kind of tight quarters since it's not even a full size cube. when either of us needs to leave, the other has to adjust and move to allow for enough room. thankfully there's no body odor or bodily noises to deal with. the ironic part is that my cubemate, rick, is a die hard alabama fan. who would have guessed? an alabama fan and an auburn fan sharing a cube in D.C. should be an interesting fall football season. perhaps a seven year run for auburn in the iron bowl...

the move is almost done. we "check out" of the old place on saturday. there's still a list of stuff to do - clean gutters, windows, replace light bulbs, etc... - and i'll feel a bit relieved to have done. then i can focus again on the rest of those boxes at the new place and the swarm of fruit flies that seem to have made their home in our new home. where do fruit flies come from?

i celebrated my birthday last night. it was a few days after my actual birthday, but it was good to be with friends and have fun. we met up at one of my new favorite local hangouts -- bangkok blues. it was songwriters night so a handful of my music friends were there playing great music. very fun.

cinge update...

and this just in, we have the cinge update...

i'm moving again this weekend. i'm keeping my 2 new roommates and we found another house to rent about 1/2 mile from where we currently live. i'm looking forward to getting settled in and unpacking some of the boxes i packed back in may. although, it has been enlightening to see how much of my stuff i really don't need to live day to day. i'm trying to reduce the number of boxes and amount of "crap" i have, but you get to that point where it seems easier to move it to the next place than to take the time to sit down and go through it. i have decided to force myself to go through my art work that i've saved since high school. since art was my thing in high school and then my major in college, it's hard to let go of that stuff. i'll keep the good ones and take photos of the bad ones before tossing them out.

the trip to new hampshire to visit my college bud - deanna - was great. sue, another dear friend from alabama, was also there for our annual vacation. deanna was the most excellent tour guide and showed us Portsmouth, the Maine coastline, the Flume at the White Mountains National Park, and the now faceless mountain that NH is famous for (i have more to say about this later). i have some photos... but the computer is packed up so i can't download them just yet. it's always great fun to be with people that you've known for years and they know you. in some ways we have changed, and yet in so many ways nothing has changed at all. i look forward to the next trip!

work life is still in flux. i can't seem to find my purpose here, but i still get a paycheck. it's kind of crazy. i'm employed, but don't really know what my job is. i did get a message yesterday saying i passed the investigation to be able to work for Homeland Security. now i'm checking to see if there is a job there for me to do. i'm ok with that... i'm just hopeful that it's close to where i live. i'm weary of the long commute. it's funny how your priorities change over several months. back in february, when the job flux started, i really wanted to find a job doing something different... now i'd settle for something close to home doing whatever.

i've decided that i want to record another CD.  i'm in the very beginning planning phase for this. i've identified a producer and am working on my song list. this project will be different from the last in that it will be a solo CD, not a band CD. i hope to have some other instrumentation and background vocals, but it will primarily feature my voice, my guitar, and my songs. it feels a little "all about me", but it's kind of exciting as well.