When will I learn not to use diet soda as a mixer? When?

Were you mixing it with Mentos?

Today I responded yes to an invitation to an after-work event at a local "billiards and sports club", attended primarily by marketing, sales, customer support, and field service engineer types.

Flying Spagetti Monster help me.

Hey, wrong thread! Going to this is a GOOD idea. :p

So I'm taking the trash out and a car drives up to me and the driver asks "Excuse me, sir [I don't like being a sir], is this Emerald Park?"

I'm kind of confused because she's in the parking lot of an apartment complex, which very obviously isn't a park. So I assume she means the nearby Emerald Glen Park and I give her directions.

I'm heading back in, having done my good deed for the month when suddenly it dawns on me that the name of our apartment complex is of course Emerald Park (which, to kind of take the stupid out of it, is a name that I only ever see when we renew our lease papers every year).

Alex just made my night.

Isn't there signage for your apartment complex? I see ours all the time...

Yes, there is at the front gate. Which I hardly ever use and certainly never pay any attention to. To the extent I think of a name for this place it is "Archstone" which of course is the company that owns it and there are probably 20 Archstone complexes in the Bay Area, but I know what I mean by it.

Cool yer jets there, Dilbert. You'll survive ;)

Oh, I totally didn't go.

I did my penance, spent the work day and lunch schmoozing. There was no good reason for me to go to the after work thing. Plus, turned out to be far more of the developers and tech sales guys than I realized. Which made for a far more palatable experience during the day, but no way in hell that would have translated well to a pool hall. No, the only thing that made the thought of going to a pool hall after work with coworkers was when I thought they weren't tech guys.

I did stick around later in the week for an on-premise after work BBQ. Made for a decent end to Thursday I guess.

Last night, our IT people needed to perform some maintenance on our computers (remotely - they did not come in). When I came in this morning, my monitor was saying that it wasn't getting a signal.

Trying to wake the computer did nothing. I pushed the power button on the computer to reboot that way and got nothing. Cycled the monitor off and on - nothing. Pulled the power cord on the computer and powered back up. Still nothing.

As I was sitting there contemplating my next step, I happened to notice that the monitor cable was unplugged from the back of the monitor.

DOH!

Yeah, I feel kind of stpid.

(And how exactly did that happen? I really want to know.)