Company Picnic

We had our company picnic yesterday. Pretty odd to have it on the first day of August, as the first of the month is always the most important day in Workers Comp insurance; that is, many more companies start insurance on the 1st than any other day in the month, so it's unusual we wouldn't be in the office for last minute quoting or revising outstanding quotes.

The picnic was a little different than it's been in past years. First, we moved the location a to another area of Mission Bay, which wasn't a big deal, and we also had a chainlink-enclosed "beer garden" area, now that open containers aren't allowed. I guess you obtain a permit and you can have one of these enclosed areas, with a maximum 40 people in there, and it can only be cans or boxed wine, no bottles or hard alcohol. Of course, some people from our claims department misread he memo and had bottles of Smirnoff Ice in their cooler (yes, they were all women), which further confused some people who thought Smirnoff Ice contains vodka. I think it's just a malt beverage.

I can't say I had a great time, but it was okay as far as these things go. I didn't end up playing flag football, which really took up a lot of time. Not sure what happened; nobody asked me and I was ambivalent about it, though it probably would have been a better idea running around for a couple hours instead of just drinking beer and chatting. I dunno. We had a silly but kind of fun obstacle course that our team won, and I even played bingo for a little while, more because it was fun to make fun of. I had intended to talk to a lot more people, and I did talk to quite a few, though not anything all that deep or interesting. Well, one female friend made it very clear to anyone in earshot that she doesn't like a dick in her ass, despite a couple gay coworkers telling her it was something you learn to like. I did get to talk to our new Marketing rep for a little while, who's quite attractive and nice, and apparently that started some rumor of blossoming romance, since work is really just high school all over again. We actually just talked about work.

I did get a free Heineken mini-keg someone bought and didn't use, so that's cool. Got some groceries and made pizza for the kids and me, which was probably the best I've ever made it. Watched some recorded Shark Week shows and we all fell asleep in my bed, which doesn't make for the most restful night, but it was nice.