Working in Fear

It’s a coworkers birthday, and I decided to take him out to lunch.

When I get back to me desk, this was waiting for me inside a blank envelope.

This all started because this one girl at work would never remove a glass vase at her desk.  It just sat there empty, month after month, and I thought it would be funny to just put some goldfish in there, which I did.

However, she didn’t show up to work that morning because she had to fly to Illinois since her mother was admitted to the hospital, so there went the surprise.  But other people noticed the fish and texted her about it and one thing turns into another and it turned into this big mystery – who left the  goldfish.  Heck, before I know it the whole department was in a contest to name the fish.  They were named Login and Password, respectively.

Well, before she came back (her mother turned out to be just fine btw) one of the goldfish died, that’s right, Password expired.  I didn’t think it was fair for her not to have seen the two goldfish and the team was complaining how lonely Login would be, so I bought another one.  Then there was another death, so I had to buy another one.

By this time, the mystery of the fish dropper-offer was growing and I just couldn’t simply reveal myself, it would just be too prosaic; so I put together a scavenger hunt all over the building on April Fools’ Day which resulted in the last clue being found at my desk.

Eventually all the goldfish died and has been replaced with a single Beta, who we, as a tech team, has name . . . Beta.

But now I work in fear because of that note.

Developing . . .

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Shipping Confusion

The second website I visit every morning is Woot.com to see what’s for sale (the first being a news website).  On the morning of April 27, I decided to pull the trigger on a purchase and on April 29 I received an email and tracking number stating that my item was shipped by FedEx.

I received the item on May 10.  That’s right, it took 11 days for the item to be delivered, but what’s crazier is that it was shipped from a place that is only 10 miles from my house.  Seriously, I wish there was an option for me to just drive by and pick up an item I ordered.

To add to my confusion, the sticker on the package didn’t have any reference to FedEx, but UPS, and it was left in my mailbox.  Usually, FedEx and UPS items are left on my doorstep.

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How Do Christians Become Conservative?

An interesting post from author Mike Lux on the Huffington Post¹.  Even though you may not agree with his reasoning, you may benefit from an opposing view.

Here’s an excerpt:

The most fundamental difference between progressives and conservatives is that question of which side you are on.

Conservatives believe that the rich and powerful got that way because they deserve to be, that society owes its prosperity to the prosperous, and that government’s job when they have to make choices is to side with those businesspeople who are doing well, because all good things trickle down from them.

Progressives, on the other hand, believe it is the poor and those who are ill-treated who need the most help from their government, and that prosperity comes from all of us — the worker as well as the employer, the consumer as well as the seller, the struggling entrepreneur trying to make it as well as the wealthy who already have.

Usually, I might spend my time arguing which of those worldviews gives us better policy outcomes, or which is better politics, but in this post I want to focus on something else: which side the God of the Judeo-Christian Biblical tradition is on.

¹Normally I try to never link to the Huffington Post because I don't want
anyone to think I'm a bleeding heart liberal that only reads liberal websites,
but this topic seemed like something my readers would appreciate.  Now I'm
just waiting on BibleScholarGeorge to make a snarky comment.
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