Peachy Experiment

In the vein of "food experiments at work (think muffins)", here's a good story.  There's a guy at work who is one of those brilliant yet often impractical people.  Lately he's been gone a lot.  First he had training for a week.  Then I think he went to Poland and Italy for two weeks.  Then maybe he was back for a day or two, and then he took vacation for a week or so.  At some point during all of that apparently he was in the office long enough that he brought a peach into the office one day, likely intending to eat it as a snack.

Then he forgot about the peach.  This wouldn't be difficult to believe if you saw his desk.  He pretty much doesn't sit there.  He uses it to store stuff.  Maybe a week or 10 days ago when I walked past his desk I noticed this peach and that it was starting to get moldy - in the beginning stages of moldy.  I kind of kept my eye on it to see what would happen to it.  Unfortunately I didn't have the presence of mind to take a picture then.  But last week it definitely was extra fuzzy with white and bluish green fuzz.

This week the guy was back from vacation and he hadn't even noticed the peach after more than a day, so I pointed it out to him.  I took a picture before he threw it in the garbage.  This is what happens when you let a peach sit out on your desk too long.  In case you've never done it yourself.

That's real peachy.

On a completely different note, someone e-mailed me a link to this article about leadership.  You can read it for yourself and see what you think.  The part that caught my eye was the paragraph below, mostly because Uncle Bex sometimes teases me about being this way.  At least one of the leadership characteristics comes naturally.  :-)  OK, maybe one or two of the other ones do too.  Like honesty.

"Continuous learning. Show me a know-it-all and I’ll show you someone who doesn’t have a clue about being human. Curiosity and an insatiable desire to always do better is the mark of a great leader. They are rarely satisfied with the status quo, and welcome new knowledge and fresh (even if challenging) input. It’s all about investing in yourself."

Glasses Update

Two or three weeks ago I received my new glasses.  Here are the old ones:

Here are the new ones:

The ladies at the glasses place said they have a little bit more of an "open" look.  They have a very similar shape to the old ones except on the one outer corner.  And they're a different color of course.  I suppose an engineer would call that an incremental update and/or a digit change.  I've adjusted the nose pads a little bit too so you see less of my eyebrows through the lenses.  I think they'll work for the next couple years.