The Midweek Office Ball

One thing I forgot to mention a couple days ago, about the airfield-based office where I'm working for now: it's great to be working in an office again, even though just on short-term assignment, and even though it's more part-time than full-time.

Midweek last week, Grant, the Officer Services manager, was watching as one of his staff, Selma, put up the artificial office Christmas tree across the common area (i.e., there are desks, but no cubicle-walls). Next to his desk, as Selma stepped back and looked at her work – tree still bare –, sat facilities meister Renaldo, a box of ornaments at his feet.

Renaldo picked up an ornament – a fragile blown-glass ball – and threw it across the room, hard, like a retired baseball player. And the ball lodged firmly in the branches, did not slip or/and fall. Startled, Selma turned and grinned at his precise shot.

He hefted another ball and took aim. "You don't have to do any more," he assured Selma. "I can decorate the whole thing from here."