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Alright now children (think “Mr. Garrison”), the word of the day is “reorganization.” Reorganization occurs when your company gets new management and they decide to rearrange everyone. This applies to me because my company has decided to reorganize my group. Normally, I wouldn’t care as long as I was keeping my job. I am keeping my job, but my boss is not. They are moving him to another area. Wait! I’ve only been here for a month! I haven’t had time to learn to hate him yet!

In reality, my boss is really cool. He actually LISTENS during meetings and then asks for ADVICE. I know. I couldn’t believe it either. It looks like my department is being broken up and we will now report to whichever group we are writing documentation for at the moment. One writer has already threatened to quit. I’ll stick it out for now. Like I said, I haven’t been there long enough to hate anyone yet. Plus, the engineering group I’ll be working with is in Mountain View, so I will probably work out of the Mountain View office more often if not permanently.

After that news, my work day was pretty much shot. I did end up having a decent day though. I rode my bike to work again. Riding back kind of sucked though because I go right by the Giants stadium and there was a game. This meant dodging lots of slow, clueless fans - like I need another reason to dislike baseball.

I know I probably shouldn’t ride my bike on the sidewalk, but I’m not crazy enough to ride it on the roads. I am amazed by the shocked looks I get from coworkers when I tell them that I ride my bike from the train station to the office. I have to assure them that I go nowhere near the streets. One of our employees got hit by a bike messenger the other day. I talked to him about it and he said there is a way to be hit by a bike as to minimize injuries. The fact that he knows that kind of weirds me out. I mean, I feel like I should learn how to avoid injury in an earthquake instead of learning how to avoid injury in a bike/person collision.