Charity Begins at Work

October is a very expensive month. The IBM Employees Charity Fund is full on. We have a variety of fundraisers going on, and it is 2 bucks here 5 bucks there and before you know it, a lot of money has gone out of my wallet. On Thursday we had a pie throwing contest, well it turned out to be chocolate pudding, but you get the idea. There were 6 volunteers from the executive and management employees to have a pie thrown at them. It was so much fun, the idea was that you bought some tickets and then decided who you wanted to throw at and put your ticket in their box. The organizers then picked 10 tickets from each box, and if they pulled your ticket, you got to throw. Rob Bligh who is one of the executive, was wearing a beautiful suit, and to raise even more money, said he would not change and have the pies thrown at him just the way he was. All the other pie throwees, were wearing old clothes, or rain ponchos, and stood behind a structure, so that only their heads were shown. Not Rob, he was standing right in front, so instead of just getting a faceful of pudding he got it over his whole body. Talk about getting into the spirit of things.
Not too much else going on with me. Work is going fine, pretty busy so the days go by very quickly. We had snow this week, but not much stuck, so I am hopeful that we will have more time without snow. Only about a week and half until I go to Kelowna for a visit, can't wait.