rain apocalypse

Today we had the rain apocalypse. I went to Jess' salon to get my hair cut and repinked then we were going to walk to the big wonderful because Edge was working there. As we got ready to leave it started raining, hard. The street was flooded in 15 minutes. Then it started hailing. After about 35 minutes the rain stopped so we hurried to the big wonderful before it started raining again.

this was some not fucking around hail - I thought Jess was going to cry, but she laughed

the streets were so flooded we had to walk 3 blocks out of our way, and then down an alley, to get to the big wonderful

then the sewers started overflowing

this water is flooding even the side walk - it was about 8 - 10 inches deep

there were sections of the road where the cars couldn't drive because the water was too deep

poor brazilian street food tent...Edge had waterfront property - that's hail on the black umbrella

the ground was a muddy mess so Jess and Edge decided to pack up - they had been told that the vendors couldn't leave but these were extreme circumstances so they let us leave - Jess and Edge drove through the big wonderful which was pretty cool - I was in front of them walking to get all the drunk idiots out of the way

my favorite part was when Jess was dumping out the water in the hand washing station cooler thing (the blue thing in the pic) and she turned to me and said "where should I dump this water out?" HAHAHA And then she offered me a bottle of water and when I declined it she said "yeah, you've probably had enough water for today"

a PINSM birthday!

Today is my birthday. My colleagues made me a birthday PINSM, which is the first birthday PINSM ever:

I'm allergic to honey - I like that they only put 6 candles on the cake

And I made a PINSM for my colleague Dave because he got me a head set for my phone for my birthday (well, he requisitioned it from the equipment room and set it up for me). The back was a thank you for setting up the head set. The front has a picture of a penguin wearing a phone head set saying "I just hope no one calls. I don't have any ears."

As for my celebration plans, I made three plans with three different people. All fell through. So I think I'm going to get a little drunk and watch nitro circus. I love Travis Pastrana.

more PINSMs

Post it note social media is a huge success in the office! It even has its own acronym now, PINSM (pronounced pin-sim).

This was for the guy who works at the help desk who let me jump the queue so I could get my VPN fixed. And now my colleagues are giving the help desk PINSMs because I get the best service. Front and back shown:

this is really the back but this is the side I put facing up on his computer

this is the side that is displayed

His response was “she’s kind of weird but I like it.” He put it on his monitor.

So then a guy who does legal for contracts asked me for a PINSM. This was his:

the background is a penguin saying "hi"; the last line says PINSMs cause cancer in rabbits

 I made this for my cube mate C. She and I should never have been sat together, we get up to all kinds of mischief. I made this after a guy I work with snuck up behind me as I was engrossed in a diagram and then sprayed me with that dust off aerosol spray (he had it because I told him I would not get anywhere near his computer until he cleaned all the dust off of it). I made him read the warning label out loud and then accused him of dousing me with toxic chemicals:

aforementioned dust guy then said I was not allowed to say I'm a puffin because puffins are cooler than penguins so I thought to redraw my PINSM; and then I was like "hold on a fucking minute, I invented PINSMs, I can be a puffin if I want to"

This is my latest PINSM invitation, from a colleague who spends more time chatting with people than being my subject matter expert:

as it turns out, he's also an expert on snails; his grandmother raised them or some shit like that - I'm not sure why the snail is barfing but I think it was an attempt at creative humor that sucked

Tomorrow is a big day at the office because my sister in law made me some custom sugar cookies to take into the office. Everyone is going to love them. I better get at least one PINSM about the cookies.