The Company Picnic

Today is the day, once a year, that we shut down the office and go to the local business-to-business trade show. This show is larger than Gencon, and has hundreds of local businesses offering no end of products and services (and no end of swag, also known as loot, including office supplies, bottled water, pens, note pads, candy, cookies, coupons, assorted free samples, pet toys, discounts on local hotels for romantic getaways, etc.). We look forward to this show every year and, no matter how busy we are, shut down the office and go to the show! We meet a lot of businesses we already do business with and hang around their booths giving testimonials, and meet a lot of businesses that we don't do business with yet, but will by next month! It is the ultimate networking show, and the 12 shopping bags full of loot mean we rarely buy office supplies (although the chocolate lasts only about a week). Steve Petrick and Steve Cole hang around the US Army booth, swapping stories with the recruiting sergeants.