I had a co-worker at a job I held for two plus years ending a couple of years ago. It was a 'start-up' although it begs the question of whether a company can call itself a startup after ten years. It seems like any 'starting' would have been 'up' by then.
The company had great ambitions to revolutionize the Building Energy Management Industry mostly with smoke and mirrors. He and I were in a small group with one other person who was responsible for connecting devices to our system - the one thing we had the concrete ability to do. It was stressful in that we had to do all the work remotely with someone else's eyes, ears, and hands who generally speaking did not have the skill set to accomplish the task at hand. And - we were laden with about 65 projects each all at one time.
All this is my usual long-winded way of saying that he and I and the other guy had each others' backs many times, and it created a bond between us.
Why is this relevant? Well, he moved on to a company called Workday, the company that sponsors our last opponent (Workday Plan B). Turns out he played for them until this year, but decided to do something else with his Tuesday evenings; he said he would be a sub. We played them last week, and I sent him a message through another friend on their team that I fully expected to see him out there. And do you know what? He didn't show. I won't name him, but his initials are KD (Warriors fans, not that KD), and he goes by the nickname Kibbles (I know, with a nickname like that who would show??).
Workday Plan B needed the other KD, it turns out, because they only had eight players to start the game and finished with just nine. But it wouldn't have mattered. We took them apart, 18-1, and it wasn't that close. Makes you wonder, what was Plan A?
It was the usual assortment of good, timely hitting and good defense, and a porous opponent. After three straight fly outs to left to end the first, we exploded for eight in the second and the rout was on.
Mario had a game - he went 3-3 with four RBIs. Tom had them off balance all game and went 3-3 himself, as did Jay. The latter and Cage had two doubles each. Bert continued his quest for a home run in every game with a two run bomb.
Back to the drawing board - Plan C?
Milestones:
Cage 140 2B (#1)
Mario 250 rbi (#7)
Mario 350 h (#10)
The company had great ambitions to revolutionize the Building Energy Management Industry mostly with smoke and mirrors. He and I were in a small group with one other person who was responsible for connecting devices to our system - the one thing we had the concrete ability to do. It was stressful in that we had to do all the work remotely with someone else's eyes, ears, and hands who generally speaking did not have the skill set to accomplish the task at hand. And - we were laden with about 65 projects each all at one time.
All this is my usual long-winded way of saying that he and I and the other guy had each others' backs many times, and it created a bond between us.
Why is this relevant? Well, he moved on to a company called Workday, the company that sponsors our last opponent (Workday Plan B). Turns out he played for them until this year, but decided to do something else with his Tuesday evenings; he said he would be a sub. We played them last week, and I sent him a message through another friend on their team that I fully expected to see him out there. And do you know what? He didn't show. I won't name him, but his initials are KD (Warriors fans, not that KD), and he goes by the nickname Kibbles (I know, with a nickname like that who would show??).
Workday Plan B needed the other KD, it turns out, because they only had eight players to start the game and finished with just nine. But it wouldn't have mattered. We took them apart, 18-1, and it wasn't that close. Makes you wonder, what was Plan A?
It was the usual assortment of good, timely hitting and good defense, and a porous opponent. After three straight fly outs to left to end the first, we exploded for eight in the second and the rout was on.
Mario had a game - he went 3-3 with four RBIs. Tom had them off balance all game and went 3-3 himself, as did Jay. The latter and Cage had two doubles each. Bert continued his quest for a home run in every game with a two run bomb.
Back to the drawing board - Plan C?
Milestones:
Cage 140 2B (#1)
Mario 250 rbi (#7)
Mario 350 h (#10)
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