Chuckie, the avuncular engineer that I work with (NOT for!) is wearing jeans today. Which is very unusual, he usually wears khakis. He says he's wearing jeans because he's going to Iowa later today and wants to fit in. He damaged the temporary cap on his front tooth, the appearance of which may also help him blend in.

Earlier this week I was in his office helping him with Power Point. I happened to notice that the expiration date on the jug of generic cough syrup sitting on his desk was some time ago. "Um, Chuckie," I said, "your cough syrup expired in June 2001." At first he blew me off, but a couple minutes later he said, "Really, that medicine is expired? Because I haven't been getting any better."

I don't know what he'd do without me. Probably bug somebody else.