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Yankee Swap gift
and breakfast pizza. |
Instead of our monthly big team meeting this morning, we had a
holiday gathering. There was breakfast pizza, muffins and Danish, coffee, and
trays of cookies. We also had a Yankee Swap, where the hot item this year was a
beautiful wood paddle shaped charcuterie board, stolen twice during the game. The
gift I brought was a small slate painted with a chickadee and lilacs, and the
gift I got was vanilla fragrance Bath and Body products and a tub of “Crazy Aaron’s Thinking
Putty,” which is allegedly a “great tool for relieving stress; acting as an
attention aid; and assisting in physical therapy for wrists and hands.” This
should be fun.
I drank too much coffee and ate too much of everything. It
was awesome. There was full self-awareness of the excess consumption, but I didn’t
let a little thing like that get in the way of an overindulgent good time. When
the sugar and caffeine jitters kicked in, the water intake was increased in an
effort to dilute it, based on nothing more than a hunch. It wasn’t a surprise
when a stomach ache arrived around 3:00.
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| The stage at MRT for A Christmas Carol. |
After work, it was a rush home to attend to Win, and then back out the door. The
bank had a block of tickets to Merrimack Repertory Theater’s production of A
Christmas Carol. A colleague and I met before the show for a quick drink. The original
plan had included dinner, but that was before we spent all day eating at the
office.
The show, like most shows at MRT, was great. In a local
twist, there was a brief intro by Charles Dickens, who talked about his visit
to Lowell and how it influenced his writing. As usual, the cast played multiple
roles and did it well. Overall, it was a pretty great day. The only “bah humbug” was on the stage, and well delivered at that.
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