It's Moving Day!!

Well...moving from one cube to another at work that is.

Work has been beyond crazy for the last couple of months or so. Mainly because the other engineer quit. And while this does put me in charge of the entire Engineering Department...it also makes me the entire Engineering Department.

Another thing that happened because of this is...I get to move to a much nicer cube!!!! This particular cubicle is about as close as you can get to having a private office without having the "Sales" in your title. Not that I'm bitter mind you. Okay...maybe a LITTLE bitter.

ANYWAY...since I was moving all of my stuff from one cube to another, I took this opportunity to re-organize some of the stuff I keep at the office in case of a spontaneous Hippie outbreak. Mainly, this is the food I have stashed in a desk drawer. Since they brought me back after being laid off, I haven't stock piled stuff like vacuum-packed bags of rice like I had done previously. It's mostly snack kinds of foods. Cliff bars, jerky, nuts, and the like. I can't honestly say I have made a concerted effort to stockpile food in my office, it's just sorta' happened. And that's okay. As it stands now, I probably have almost a month's worth of food in my desk if I cut back to an absolute minimum intake. Let's be honest...I could certainly cut back on my food intake for quite a while and be just fine.

This is much more likely to be used if I had to bugout from the office. I have a really hard time picturing exactly what would trap me in the office. I would probably throw most of it into my pack when I left. It's nice to know it's there at all times though. I never really have to worry about what I'm doing for lunch on any given day.

I also have a can of Sterno, a couple of lighters, and a couple of chem lights in this stash as well. I'm sure I could find something to fashion a small stove out of here in the office if I needed to. I know for a fact we have several wire coat hangers in the server room.

Yes, those are two empty Altoid tins. I just can't seem to chuck those things in the recycling bin when I empty them. I also have one of the REALLY big resealable Monster cans in my desk as well as the metal water bottle I normally EDC. They are both a great way to boil water.

Speaking of water...we normally have at least two five gallon water bottles in the office at any given time. If I was stuck here by myself, which is not very likely...I'd be okay for quite a while. If there were other here with me, water might become an issue unless we could figure out where to get some more inside the building. That could be a bit tricky to say the least. I'll have to think about this one for a bit and see if I can't come up with some way around this problem.

The other drawer in my desk has a large pack of wet wipes, a travel size deodorant, travel size body spray. I could at least not stink too badly if it came down to it. These things are really in my desk for the times when I ride my bike into work. But, I could stay sequested in the office for a while and still not be mistaken for an Occupy Wall Street participant(read "Dirty Hippie").

That's about all I have at the moment. Work has really been cutting into the time I spend thinking about prep's and actually doing them. It shouldn't...but it does. It's nice to take a break from the daily grind once in a while and play "what if" though. Even if it's just at the office...*sigh*...on a Saturday.

PJ