Today we had an organization day at work.  Which is perhaps best defined in this instance as having a cookout in the little park-like area in front of our office building.

Menu featured steak, brats, burgers, various side dishes, and pie (pecan and pumpkin).  It turned out pretty damn fine all and all.  And I’ve got the photos to prove it.

Mr. Kang kept a close watch on the steaks until they were grilled to perfection. All we had was plastic cutlery, be we managed to cut the meat into tasty morsels anyway…

Leb was our other chef, he’s pictured here enjoying the fruits of his labor…

Some of our merry troupe…

And some more of them…

The boss capturing his own memories. That’s our building in the background…

After our longish luncheon, it was back to work.  Upon which I discovered that my computer was malfunctioning.  The mouse was non-functional for one thing which prevented me from going through the log-in procedures required to access the network.  I unplugged and re-plugged the mouse.  No dice.  I rebooted to no effect, so I rebooted again.  Still stuck on the log-in screen I called over our IT guy, Mr. Kang.  In short order he discovered the problem:

Someone had taped this over the light on the bottom of my mouse. Yep, I’d been pranked big time. It didn’t take much sleuthing to identify the culprit. I’ve been considering the best avenues for revenge and I do believe I have a plan. It involves spiders…

In other news, on Sunday I traveled down Osan way for one of our periodic grudge matches against the Songtan Darts Association.  Sadly, I forget to pack my game and turned in a pretty embarrassing performance.

We traveled down in style on this rented bus. The ride back was much more drunken…

We broke into four teams and played head-to-head. In the end, we kissed our sister. Two of our teams won their matches, as did two of theirs. We will reconvene next month in Itaewon and try and break the tie.

Songtan and Itaewon players in attendance. The Songtan bunch were great hosts and kept it fun and easy.  I’m the old fucker way in the back.

One final anecdote.  Today I sent an email to a co-worker that went something like this:

Ms. Yi:  Here’s is an example of a hearing summary I drafted.  I used Mr. Yi’s minutes from a previous hearing.  If you want to compare, perhaps Ms. Yi can supply you a copy of Mr. Yi’s work.

Hell, the damn thing confused me and I wrote it.  I read it out loud to my cubicle mate (a Korean who is one of the few on our staff not named Yi) and she laughed her ass off.  I went back and added first names to make my meaning clearer.

Ah well, all in a days work.