We had an exciting day at work today. Serena and I were heading downstairs from our office to go to lunch, and a man got off the elevator and said, "Oops, I must be on the wrong floor." Well, this whole building is only our company, so it seemed suspicious. But we have couriers and strange people coming and going all the time, so we didn't think anything of it. He got back on the elevator, but we headed down the stairs. We thought we would just watch him walk out of the building, cause there is only one way out. When we got outside the front door, we waited for 4-5 minutes, and no guy came out. So 3 of my co-workers went up the stairs, and Serena, another co-worker, and I went up the elevator. The guys who went up the stairs got to the 3rd floor first, started walking around when this guy popped his head up from one of our cubes. They asked if they could help him and walked over there, and he pulled a laptop from under his shirt. He put it on the table and tried to walk away, but they held him there. It was 3 against one. Serena and I came later and saw them arguing and telling this guy to sit down, he wasn't going anywhere until the cops came. When the police officer came, he looked and the guy and said "You again David???". He had just had issues with him at a clothing store a few weeks ago. He was just released from jail two months ago.
Anyway, everyone was OK, nothing was taken. This guy is a crack addict and is basically a petty thief to supply the habit.
(Chairs Before)
Some of you may know that I bought a new table
at Pier1 the end of February. I have been putting off setting
up the table because I wanted black chairs. I had debated about
painting my current chairs black but I was not to excited about
having to sand all of the chairs before I painted them. So I have
been looking at chairs to buy, which would cost around $500.
Needless to say I didn't want to spend the money for chairs.
A couple of weeks ago I found a web-site that talked about
someone who used liquid sandpaper to repaint her kitchen
chairs. I thought I can do that so I embarked on repainting my
chairs black. The following picture shows the chairs finished in black.
What do you think? I love them!! This pictures doesn't
do them justice. It cost me about $50 to paint my chairs.
Ok, I have heard many of my friends talk about
the Twilight books. I am interested but not a
huge reader. Should I invest my time to read these
books? Please let me know what you love about this
series. I need to catch up quickly because from
what I hear book 4 comes out in August and also
a movie. Please let me know why you like these books.
Our semi-vacation is complete. We are back to work. We learned a lot about business and are amazed at what a great company we are a part of. They increased the bonus's this year by 190 million, and are running a national ad campaign worth 300 million. This is pretty amazing amidst this economy.
We didn't get many pictures of Portland or Seattle. We had to drive through Tacoma, which is where I was born. Someday I may tour the city and find the hosptial or something. If any of you didn't know, I was adopted at the age of 3 days. And no, I don't have any interest in finding my biological parents. Not sure why, just never had the desire. My Mom and Dad are all that I could have asked for in parents............... :)
