Bye Bye BBQ

Amidst the tremendous excitement of moving across the country to take on new adventures, there is the sadness of leaving some part of your life behind. This weekend, some of the best RISK 2210 players in the city threw a BBQ to bid us farewell.


Coincidentally, many of these RISK 2210 players are also coworkers of mine.


Many of us started work at about the same time, mostly as recent university grads, so we've all been going through the same stages of life at roughly the same time. We happened to be the only ones at this event with any children...


... but there are several kids just waiting in the wings.


After a fine feast on burgers and smokies, they brought out the cake, which was decorated with that classic combination -- war elephants marching on the (chocolate) moon. The only thing missing was a helping of KFC gravy to wash it all down.


Upon closer inspection, you can see that there are many war elephants marching around on the cake as well as the moon. This reminds me of a poster that I once saw encouraging safe business practices. Actually, I made the poster and entered it into a competition at work. Surprisingly, I didn't win. I guess people just don't understand security the way these elephants do.


El Dubya and I proudly displayed our matching t-shirts, which were designed to commemorate that great day back in March when we (along with two of my brothers-in-law) played Settlers of Catan atop the Calgary Tower. This feat may not get us into the Guiness Record Book, but it did warrant a t-shirt.

There are a lot of wonderful friends, memories and inside jokes here in Ottawa. May we be like the war elephants and never forget them.