No Sun Today, but goodies of several types.

This morning MrGrumpy found the sun was nowhere to be found, it was overcast and only about 12 degrees C. The sun is suposed to return by the weekend, so he was not bothered that much, at least it was not raining. Unlike the drought ridden UK where is has rained almost every day for the past month, MrGrumpy wondered if Amazon has any good books on building an Ark he could get delivered the friends in the UK.

Whilst MrGrumpy was getting his first coffee of the day, he saw the donuts being delivered, yes it was another Donut Thursday, defiantly one of the highlights of MrGrumpy's week.

MrGrumpy was collected for a meeting from the office by MrSBD (Strategic Business Development), he was back in the office about lunchtime as MrSBD headed off to seek out other strategic business to develop.

Just after lunchtime MrGrumpy got an email from MrYouGotGoodies, his purchases from MrAmazon had arrived, this was the first time he had ordered stuff from MrAmazon for delivery in the US, nothing went wrong and the goodies arrived on time, to MrGrumpy's amazement.

MrGrumpy had ordered a low cost carbon fibre tripod, a remote release and a polarising filter for his camera, he was not expecting it to be uber stable, but he was after something taller than his existing travel tripod and about the same weight. To his surprise it seems quite well made, not up to the standards of the pro grade ones he has back in the UK, but good enough for his needs.

About mid afternoon MrGrumpy was returning to his cube after escaping from Alcatraz I, he noticed lots of other inhabitants of the cube farm congregating around one of the meeting rooms. Upon investigation it turned out that not only was today a Donut Thursday, it was also the monthly ice cream day. This is another unhealthy, but nice office tradition. There were several large bucket sized tubs from MrBaskin&Robins, along with sprinkles and goo to drizzle on top, MrGrumpy tried a selection of the ones available.

At 6:20pm MrGrumpy left the cube farm, he was heading to the FaultLine to meet up with MrCrazyRunner for a beer. After a couple of hours MrCrazyRunner and MrGrumpy had exchanged gossip, solved the worlds problems and re-invented the wheel (well almost). After talking and discussing life, the universe and everything with MrCrazyRunner, MrGrumpy was feeling like moving to California may just well have been worth the sacrifices that he and Little MissNaughty were making.

It was now time for MrGrumpy to relax for a couple of hours, MythBusters on TV and a bottle of FatTyre.