angledge | Dispatch from DesWorld #6

Check your calendars, everyone. Today is the anniversary of D-Day. D-Day was the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. I give this helpful definition because my co-worker Dave did not know what I meant when I said, "Whoa, today is the anniversary of D-Day".

Des, however, knew what D-Day meant, & proceeded to point out that, no matter how we may feel about our jobs on Monday morning, being at work at URS was certainly preferable to being in a troop transport on the English Channel, preparing to storm a beach guarded by machine gun emplacements.

He's been offering cheerful variations upon this theme all morning:

"While it's true that filling out Job Authorization paperwork is tedious & hateful, surely you can agree that it is better than being ordered to take out an entrenched German artillery squad."

"... it's better than fighting through hedgerows."

"... better than house-to-house fighting in some small, formerly scenic French village."

"... better than riding a Horsa glider into a marsh."

And I suppose he's got a point.

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