Apr 29 2006
Table Tennis, Bonus, Backpack
My boss walked into my office this morning and I panicked as I struggled to close my web browser. Good thing she was there to tell me good news: I got a nice bonus for the quarter! My first instinct was to hop on my favorite deal site (slickdeals.net, SAC, bensbargains.net) but I calmed down and affirmed to myself that I would put most of it in my Roth IRA. Even so, a half hour ago I bought a backpack off SAC because I don’t have a backpack that would be good for hiking/camping, at least, not a “true,” hiking daypack.
I didn’t get much work done today because of all the day-dreaming I was doing about how to spend my bonus money and the fact that it was the championship table tennis game at my company. There was a month-long tournement that culminated to today’s final game. It was between the Chinese guy in the white shirt and a white guy in the black shirt and headband. The game ended at 4-3 with the final point going to the guy in black off a deuce point! Intense! Tons of cheering and it seemed like half the company was watching at different times during the game.


