It's just a theory

It is my personal theory, not widely accepted, that like everything else in Amercia, bugs are BIG. I have been sick for the last week...........although suffering heavy bouts of denial. Everyone tells me it's not that the bugs are big here it's just that THIS YEAR they are particularly harsh........hrumpf. This comment sits in the same space as "it doesn't USUALLY RAIN this much". Not unlike New Mexico where it was "the BIGGEST SNOW we've had in 50 years". Either everything is going to hell in a handcart or people are making it up! Rant aside, groundhog day has been and gone and I'm now coming to work in daylight hours and getting home before it is dark - nice.
Work moved into a new flash building. All open plan, with a pool table, bean bags etc etc. Open plan seems to be a surprise to some. Better yet - we hot desk. I like this because moving around all the time freaks people out. It keeps me entertained to watch people look a little startled when they find me sitting at "their" desk! Random fact. The San Jose Cisco campus (yep that's what they call it) has no less than 27 buildings between two and three stories high. There are 12 Smart Carts (shuttles) that ferry us between buildings and I am reliably told that each of them does around 100 miles per day. There are also shuttles that take us to various transit points to catch public transport (that is how I get to Walnut Creek each week - shuttle to the nearest train - BART, a half hour away, catch a train, switch trains and arrive in Walnut Creek where Sharon picks me up from the BART station - she lives within spitting distance but it is very very nice to be met at the station door. All up takes about 2 hrs with a good run). Commuting stories are like talking about the weather here - everyone has a story.
Now check this out. A few weeks back it was Alex's birthday. He's not much into stuff (me neither) so I searched around and found ifly. It simulates free falling when parachuting......well it better.......that's what it promotes itself as. We are all off to have an introductory fly this weekend. The very cutest thing is Alex likes to do adventurous things that "appear dangerous but aren't really" (this according to his mother). This is perfect!