random thoughts – Day 1,128 – (Wednesday) – feats

It was an interesting and colorful day. The ride downtown was light on traffic and idiot-free. A Wednesday morning miracle! 

A photo of frost to fill a space.

The walk from garage to office featured a shut down on Merrimack Street with a trailer carrying a steel structure stopped in the street, then backing into Lucy Larcom Park. A crew moved ahead of the trailer and trimmed trees along the path of the trailer and framework. Facebook posts seen later informed that it was one-third of a bridge at the high school construction project, with another section arriving Thursday, and the final piece on Friday.

Early in the day, our team pulled off an assembly line feat. In a half hour, we assembled nearly 90 logo coffee mugs stuffed with festive shred and candies for a couple upcoming events. I unpacked and unwrapped mugs from the shipping boxes and added the shred. Colleagues added the assorted candies, slipped the loaded mugs into shimmery bags, tied the satin drawstring into a bow, and packed the completed mugs into boxes for transport. Henry Ford would be proud of our assembly line wizardry. Give us some coffee, a task, instructions and a deadline, and we can get it done quickly. Our motivational, self-assigned deadline was getting the assembly done and everything cleared out of the way for a team meeting at noon that required use of the counter.

Our monthly S&M meeting (that’s Sales and Marketing, weirdos) was an agenda-free, no-business, social pizza lunch laid out on the recently cleared counter that was an assembly area just hours earlier. There was a stack of pizzas and a massive salad for lunch from my favorite local pizza joint (Primo!). This was followed by a delicious and beautiful cake decorated with colorful and beautiful frosting flowers to celebrate the birthdays of five colleagues. Kudos to Market Basket for the consistently amazing cakes. 

What a day! And I have exactly zero photos. It will all soon be but a fuzzy memory.

After parking the car this morning and beginning the trek to the building, there was the usual rummaging in the bag to put away the keys and retrieve the access badge and cell phone (aka camera that takes the occasional call). There was no phone in the bag. I even paused walking for a more thorough rummage. 

The consequence of not having the phone (could be needed for multifactor authentication) was debated against the time and hassle of going back home to fetch it and arriving late instead of early. I rolled the dice and carried on with no phone. It felt reckless. Almost carefree.

Upon returning home, the cell was found on the kitchen table, right next to where my bag sat while being loaded with notepads and a banana for a day at the office. There were no urgent messages. No missed calls. No photos of a really decent day.