Deck the Halls

Ok, so I didn't actually do any hall decking, but I did get my tree up and decorated.  It's pretty sparse on the branches, but after I decorated it looks a lot better.  I've actually had it for a number of years now, and it has served me well.  So, check it out.

Oh, and I only have a cell phone cam.

Danger! Warning!

There is a lady that I work with that has been sick for a while.  She kept going to the doctor, and found out that she has CMV, which is similar to mono.  Even though she wasn't contagious, I thought it'd funny to stick a biohazard sign on her cube.  I didn't print one off that had any text, it was just the symbol.  Well, on that same day, I was having a rather long, hard day, and thought it'd be amusing to stick a radioactive symbol on my window, signifying a potential nuclear blowup.  What happened for the rest of the day was rather disturbing.  There were at least five people that walked up and asked what her symbol meant, and then would turn around and ask what mine was.  Five might be an understatement.  It might have been more.  Not a single person recognized both of them, and only one or two recognized one but not the other.  This really concerned me.  How do people not know, right off the bat, what these symbols mean?  I would think that these should be some internationally recognizable, and well known symbols.  I really think that there needs to be some sort of educational thing in place that would make sure everyone knew what these things were.  Although, I guess that this is a bit like the saying, "I'm not saying we should kill people for being stupid, but let's just take the warning labels off everything and let it work itself out."

So, for the good of everyone, here you go.

Biohazard:

 

Radioactive:

Texas Winter

My Google desktop gadget tells me that it's 75 degrees out right now.  I'm wearing shorts and a short-sleeved shirt.  There is an ice cream truck down the street that all the kids are running out to.  There are people out playing around the pond all in shorts.  This is insane.  To put things in perspective, though, the record low for today (Dec. 8) was 16, and set 2 years ago.  Tomorrow it's going to be about 30 degrees lower than today.  That just means that I'm likely to get sick again.  I miss Oregon.