I arrived at work this morning and found the security staff in the front lobby debating how square a carpet runner was in comparison with the door. This seems like a life or death question as patrons of the building might be confused if the carpet were off by a few degrees. I know I wouldn’t be able to find the elevators after a disorientating walk on an out of square carpet runner. Obviously they had been at this a while. As I waited for an elevator I witnessed: corner to corner measurements to determine if the carpet itself was square, selection of reference points to determine if the door the carpet was in front of was square, and the use of a laser level shone down the edge of the carpet from the door to determine any inconsistencies. None of these methods turned up any evidence, but I’m sure the security staff persevered to find the answer to the great carpet runner dilemma. Can you imagine heading home after a day of work and your wife or kids asking “what did you do today?”. Personally I’d rather say nothing than explain in detail how I spent the first four hours of my day determining whether a carpet runner was square. Unless of course your family has low expectations of you and find out of square carpets as fascinating as you do. What may have been more comical was the elevator full of people, mostly lawyers, letting out a collective “wow” as the doors shut.

To make my day even more awesome I was provided with an opportunity to enter a raffle. Now this wasn’t any old raffle for x-mas chocolates or a gift basket - this was a booze raffle. For five dollars I was given an arms length of tickets that entered me to win any of one hundred and one bottles of alcohol. (Update: I won some Red Tassel Vodka – cheap and oddly appropriate) I’m not sure who came up with the idea, but I can’t say it’s a bad one. Although with fairly low odds of winning combined with even lower odds of winning something you actually want I’m not sure it’s as good as it first sounds. Regardless it was popular and created a buzz, literally, on the floor.

Hooray for another less than stellar post on my part. I definitely apologize. I haven’t felt creative lately although I do have an idea brewing in my crazy brain. Plus the Camrose Crawl is only days away, which should provide for an interesting story.