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Well, the time is swiftly drawing near when I will no longer be employed at Travelers. My coworkers and I are going out to a Brazilian all-you-can-eat meat buffet Monday for lunch, and I have a sneaking suspicion that I should be ready for numerous pranks. Melissa's been frogging me quite a lot this week - hopefully they won't tinfoil my desk again.

So I won't have to deal with faulty hardware and component architecture anymore, but I won't be able to youaredumb anyone anymore either - I got Gregg (skippy) twice and Keith (Rashid) once this past week - a record, even for me. And the week before that, I sent Melissa to YouAreDumb.com on her cell phone!

So I don't expect black ribbons, balloons, plastic cowboys and indians, or a hidden computer again this week, but I do expect something. This past week, when a coworker emailed out a diagram that Gregg (my boss) had drawn him, I responded with the complaint that Gregg never drew me anything. Well, never let me say Gregg never gave me anything - after that, he drew me this.

That got me thinking, and on the way downstairs to see someone about a project I'm finishing, I drew a little FarSide-esque comic. I actually drew the whole thing in the stairwell, although I copied it over later since the monitor I'd drawn was a little hard to read.

Not even the first time I've composed art while in this job position. We've got a mainframe application called "Infoman", which (startlingly) manages information about... this and that. (Restrained myself from giving too much boring detail) Anyway, I made Infoman into a little mascot for our area, and set up a custom error page on our site featuring Infoman himself. I set it up with an imagemap so that clicking his eightball chest logo linked to a javascript 8-Ball. Always nice to have around the office.

If anything too wild happens, I'll have to get pictures and post them here.