Monday, August 24, 2009

Work Hard Play Hard

Huddled around a tiny VAX terminal, JB's and SG's faces are illuminated by the amber glow of the CRT, puzzling over a chunk of code. Through the double-doors to the cafeteria strides BF, willing to help even after leaving the company for their rival across the street.

Sam spies RG in the lunchroom playing with Pokémon cards and decides to join him. RG holds twenty-five cards in his hand and has dozens more organized in front of him.

"I'm playing Clue rules," mumbles RG.

SG strides outside to Disneyland park where the train is just letting out its passengers near a glass-walled merry-go-round. SG ambles down a slope to a ridge overlooking a wide moat. In the moat are three crocodiles, two of which are involved in some kind of eating ritual, the male swallowing a female up to her throat. Sam spies a redheaded toddler climbing underneath the guardrail and looks frantically around for its parents.

Luckily, a park employee wearing a jetpack rescues the child and its father as the mother screams with relief.