Special Ops Engineering: Energizer Bunny in the Windy City

M and I surrendered all hope of a weekend together and boarded the 1:35 flight to Chicago on Friday afternoon. We gathered our check luggage and trekked across O'Hare to the on-site Hilton. There we met up with most of the other Special Ops Engineers, management, and some of the people involved in our new software suite.

After many hours of meetings, far too much alcohol, and an intriguing game involving bumper cars, hi li, and a 3-hooped goal... we gathered up to remember 2008 and celebrate a few of our colleagues. I received the Energizer Bunny Award, which is a plastic bunny figurine glued to a wooden base with a nice brass nameplate. Apparently there was stiff competition for this in 2008, so I should feel honored to have a violently-pink bunny on my bookshelf.

We got back late yesterday, and M's already in the Bay Area again. I leave for Tucson/Phoenix tomorrow (but not until I've driven to Capistrano and back at least once). We'll see each other again as something other than coworkers on Friday night. Twelve straight days of work, a new software suite, installs and down robots. Whee.

I think I'm gonna beg out of Comic-Con so I can be antisocial for a little bit.