Today I was presented with a gold coin. Well, it's not really gold and it's not really a coin, but it is my company's version of a gold coin. At some undetermined time in the future people will be able to trade in their gold coins for some as yet unknown prizes.

I got my gold coin for figuring out how to do something in the new version of Word that we had all been struggling with. I have to confess that the only reason I figured it out was because my supervisor was urging me to call Microsoft to get help and I was resistant enough to that idea to just figure the darn thing out myself. Well, I guess frustration is the mother of invention... or something. In a way I feel a little guilty for recieving the gold coin - a supposed symbol of going above and beyond - because I was whining and complaining as much as anyone else. However, I added it to my gold coin collection, bringing my grand total up to two.

I wonder what the prizes are going to be. Somehow I envision it will be sort of like skeeball where you collect a million tickets and then get to choose between a rabbit's foot keychain and a plastic back scratcher. But you never know.  ¶ 5:20 PM