Another deadline this week so today’s blog will just be short observations compiled in the past week.

You know you’re in for a breath-holding experience when, on your way to do your business at the work bathroom, you are bombarded with a Wall of Stink prior to even getting to the bathroom door.  It’s a white collar version of a dead (or slowly dying) canary in a coal mine.  Don’t breathe the air or suffer the consequences.  The only saving grace is if your mission is for a quick Number One.  If you’re stuck with having to do Number Two then you might be forced to tuck your nose into your shirt to filter out at least some of those horrific ass particles.  I’m not saying I spew French perfume when going Number Two but there are some people who desperately need a colon cleansing or a drastic change in diet.

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Sometimes I wonder if us office workers are no less conditioned than a zoo animal.  The main entrance to our building has a revolving door that is automatic.  It has a sensor to begin spinning when someone gets near it.  The other day it simply wasn’t working and people were standing in front of it waiting for it to magically begin rotating.  As people were manually pushing the door, they looked overhead as if hoping a “miracle” would somehow release them from the shackles of having to physically operate this contraption.  We are so spoiled sometimes.

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My love of movies sometimes spills over to real life and an overactive imagination.  The following photo is blurry from my phone camera but it’s a shot of the building at 6 AM.  Whenever I get here early it reminds me of the building in Die Hard (Nakatomi Tower) and I half expect to see John McClane running into the lobby with bloody feet from all the crushed glass he’s stepped on in hot pursuit of Hans Gruber (AKA Alan Rickman AKA Professor Snape).