Happy K-Day

Absolutely no work is getting done today. Which, ordinarily, would be great, but today is kinda not great since I actually have a veritable F-ton of things to do and I'm in the office today, then again on Monday, then off for another week in Savannah presenting a paper. And we've got end-of-the-year deadlines.

However! It is one of the most celebrated days here at MRO-TNC......a now 17-year tradition (moved to a new day because the new CEO decided to give us an extra day off....which I probably won't get to take. Today, friends, is "K-Day". Generally speaking, I don't subscribe to replacing the letter "C" at the beginning of a word with the letter "K" and all the kitschy connotations that go along with this practice, but when it involves one very important "K" word (which really does start with a K), who am I to argue. So, what does the letter K have to do with the day before Thanksgiving Holiday? I'll tell you. In exactly the words we use around here. K= "thanKsgiving, turKey, Kookies, Koffee, and Kahlua". That's right, everyone, I started off Tuesday morning right by filling up the Minnesota Twins travel mug with a heaping glass of coffee with a generous shot of Kahlua and some whipped cream. And then I had a second one. All before 10AM.

As an added bonus, the rest of the day is office cleaning day! Except that no one will let me throw anything out. And by anything I mean the 3 boxes of Exabyte tapes and Zip discs cluttering up my desk drawer from backups that someone took of all our data in 1999. Because clearly whatever's on there is more relevant than me having more than one useable drawer in my desk. It's fine. I'll continue just stacking things in precarious piles and hope I can find them when I need them. It's not like my multiple projects across multiple states require any sort of organizational system....

Back to "cleaning" the library. By which I mean, straightening out books on shelves and not actually throwing anything out. Because we're conservationists. And we conserve everything.