Dinner raffles

My friend's in a uni club for business/computing students. They organised a dinner at a four-star hotel so that students can go and "network" and "develop interpersonal skills" with real-life working people. Being in my first year in employment, I decided to tag along.

There ended up being quite a lot of grads at the event. The organisers decided to be nice to us working types, and gave us all a little packet of lollies for turning up. I was sitting on a table with a lot of my high school friends, three of us as graduates.

They later held a raffle, and drew names out of the hats. Ironically, the first three prizes went to the three of us who already had a present.

The MC assured the rest of the audience that the raffle was not rigged.

I am now the proud recipient of a YMCA tie.

Fun on the roads

Coming home from work, I was kinda fatigued, and it was peak hour. The roads were busy, and the motorists were impatient.

I got a green light, but I distractedly failed to notice that some driver had failed to clear the intersection. I ended up pulling up very quickly and frighteningly close to this car.

Instead of clearing the intersection, the passengers in this car decided to sit in the middle of the intersection and open doors to check for scratches. This was a low priority road, so this cut down our green-light time for quite a while. Eventually the intersection hogger reluctantly cleared the area.

Driving past the intersection, a car next to me and gives me the thumbs up. Score one for me!

Chemical Safety Sheets

So, as part of my work, I have to learn about all the different nasty chemicals I'll be working with so I don't ingest anything I'm not supposed to. Like caustic soda, hydrochloric acid and ammonia.

Hazardous chemicals come with a document which lists the chemical properties and first aid procedures related to that chemical. A lot of them have a section that looks something like this.

IRRITANT

Eyes (rabbit) - SEVERE

So someone, somewhere is making a living standing around in a lab squirting caustic soda into the eyes of cute fluffy bunny rabbits.

Touchscreens

I set up a touchscreen for work today. To check that it worked, I set it up so that it would display a piece of text from a PLC. "Hello", it said.

Having done that, my coworker promptly replaced that word with one consisting of four letters.

But hey, I learned how to strip wires in two different ways!