The senior director of development here has requested that one person from each MIS group work today, Memorial Day. For my group, he requested the person selected be someone with experience on two sides of the business -- and only two of us have the qualifications he needs. So I volunteered, knowing I'd get a comp day off in return (and it would be an easy day).

I brought Danny with me, and we're both wearing shorts. Thank goodness for that -- there's no air conditioning on in our building on the weekends, and it's been near 90 all weekend. It's already blistering hot -- my glasses keep steaming up -- but go figure, Danny said he's cold. He's wrapped in his blanket, drinking chocolate milk and watching Wallace & Gromit in "The Wrong Trousers."

I meant to bring freezer pops, but I forgot. Darn.

The guys who are here (maybe five or six others so far) are not used to the weekends so they're all pretty angry about the AC situation -- on top of having to work today. Two others so far have brought one of their kids, too. (The other kids are older than Danny so they're doing their big kid stuff.) I'm just hoping I can settle in and get some things done so it doesn't look like I've wasted my day.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekends, and take a moment or two to remember those lost in service of our country. I'm not always proud to be an American anymore, but I'm still grateful to our men and women in service.