Penny War Special Ops

As a fundraiser for the United Way, the office is holding a “Penny War”. Everyone is split up into six groups and each group has a plastic container in the break room. You get one point for every penny you put into your own container and give negative points for putting any other kind of coin (or dollar) into another group’s container (five points for a nickel, ten for a dime, etc.). At the end of the week, the group that has the highest number of points (which will likely be the least negative points) wins… something. I’m really not sure and didn’t find out exactly what was going on until this afternoon. Continue reading “Penny War Special Ops”

Why grow up when you can just grow old?

I was shuffling through a pile of paper at work and came upon some random fax machine cover sheet. To commemorate the last few hours before my 31st birthday, I spent about five minutes folding it into an airplane, wrote “RECYCLE ME!” on the wings, then tossed it over the wall and into the next cubicle. And then I spent about five minutes trying to control a case of the giggle fits. Today was a good day…