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Today was the annual company retreat (in North Park). It was ok. We got explanations/demos of a few recent, significant projects, which I appreciated. We had a good discussion in the afternoon about company direction. And there was enough food for vegetarians to eat.

They gave out some "awards" that I thought were mostly pretty stupid, like "person who travels in the most style" and "person whose life would make the best sitcom" (huh? seemed kind of insulting). I think I should probably have been on the nominee list for "most likely to think he is right". :-) As far as I can tell there were no actual nominees, though; Micky just made up a bunch of junk. In general, I can do without that kind of inane stuff.

I like this year's t-shirt better than last year's.

I have over 200 unread pieces of email now. That's after deleting the spam.

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Sigh. It turns out the other VCR did bite the dust in the power surge, but in a non-obvious way: it has signal, it has all its usual programmability... it has everything except the ability to actually move a tape. So I guess I'll be dubbing Twilight Zone off of the Enterprise tape each week, because I'm anal about keeping my tapes sorted.

On the bright side, I figured out how to dub tapes tonight. And on another bright side, I'm not sure the dubbed tape will be of lower quality than what the old VCR would have produced. (Seeing the end of last season's Enterprise while cuing up the tape for tonight made it really obvious that the old tapes don't look so great on the new TV.)