March Madness hits SEI

Now as most of you know I am not a big sports fans, but when you work with all guys it is tough not to at least be aware of the sports hoopla of the season.

Apparently LOTS of people are following College ball, So many in fact they had to block ESPN.COM and the like temporarily because it was causing a network drain. Never fear though they were able to still see/listen to the games on computers through SEI’s Intranet and TV online.

As if watching the games was not enough we had our own little tournament here today. Since Tuesday we have had those arcade style basketball hoops set up on our floor and people have been practicing and playing against one another to see who would make it to the tournament. (Yea I knwo things are not normal where I work)


So Today the Beer was put on ice



and the pretzels were ordered



and the tournament began.

The Santa Cause

So every year at work their is the opportunity to "adopt" a person or family for the holidays. It is called the Santa cause. The team I work on "adopts a family each year. This is the second year I have been the one to collect the money and do the shopping for the family. I had some help from a fellow co-worker, Tom, which was good when it came to collecting the money oh and heading into the scary part of town to pick up the gift certificate from Pathmark.

Yesterday was the day I drag everything in and get some help wrapping the gifts. Now you don't think the team on all guy I work on would wrap gifts willingly and without Bribes do you? Naturally we get them to help wrapping by feeding them. we order pizza every year on the day we wrap.

It is a great thing to be able to help give a family Christmas each year, even if it is a lot of work to collect the money and do the shopping and try to keep things as even as possible for each member of the family. next up in the holiday season is the SEI holiday party down in Philly tomorrow night which i have decided not to go to. next week on Wednesday we have our First annual holiday Beer exchange. (Yes Beer not cookies, again what happens when you work with all men) and on Friday we have our annual technology luncheon which usually consists of pizza, sandwiches, soda, beer and wine. there will also be a holiday Texas hold em tournament on Friday too.

More holiday season news to be reported later...

Submitting for an artwork show at work......

Okay readers I need your assistance. The company I work for recently sent out an email asking for all serious hobby artists to submit jpeg’s of their artworks for consideration in an upcoming exhibition “SEI Artists” in the SEI Gallery. Works can be paintings, drawings, photographs, printmaking, wood works, craft pieces, etc.. A focused series of work and commitment to the medium is necessary for consideration. What they are concerned with interesting images, interesting content, etc.

Well I have decided to submit some of my photography and decided to do a nature series specifically flowers. Below are the pictures I have narrowed it down to but I need your help to pick out the top 5 favorites. (I got it down from 62 to 27) So please look below and leave me a comment letting me know which 5 you like the best and think I should submit… Help me pick the most interesting images. Let me know if there are any you do not find interesting at all. I will probably do something in addition to the flowers if I can figure out what I want that to be…. Feel free to add any suggestions you might have.

Thanks and I will let you know which ones I submit and if I get chosen or not. With as many people that work here I am guessing there will be a lot of people submitting things.

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Okay let me know your favorites, if you can't just pick 5 keep it to no more than 10.