CAUTION: The following post contains images of fat, pasty, computer geeks wearing less clothes than usual. It was so bad, even the sun had to look away. Viewer discretion is advised.

Last weekend was our annual company boat party. I’m not sure how much longer this tradition will hold out, since the company continues to grow. This year we had to take out the biggest boat you can rent on Lake Grapevine in order to accommodate our near 50 employees.

In case you were wondering, it takes exactly six ounces of frozen margarita to make Tammy feel nauseous.

But the most of the Alt-N crew drink like fish… literally!

Greg’s working on a wicked margarita tan line.

Even Arvel, our fearless leader, was in on the floating alcohol action.

Despite the skipper’s orders, we couldn’t resist jumping off the upper deck of the party boat.

Of course, when I tried it, I slipped and nearly broke my neck. And I didn’t even have any alcohol!

Unfortunately, we didn’t get any pictures of Jerry trying to kill Tammy and me on the tube behind his boat. This year he even orchestrated a thunderstorm to try and rattle us. (Man, has he got connections or what?!) Nonetheless, we survived. Nyaah nyaah!

I want to extend my gratitude yet again to Arvel and Jerry for creating a place where guys like me can love to work.

If any of you Alt-N guys want to scrape my pictures for your own use, you can get the originals here.

No, I’m not going to sing, so put away the ear plugs. What I am going to do is shower praises on my white board. I don’t mean to sound sacrilegious or idolatrous, but I really do love my white board. I am very blessed to work for a company that pampers its employees and one of my peak perks is my giant, erasable friend.

I’ve always been fond of white boards. It’s like being allowed to color on the walls without getting in trouble. I can write funny little quips, draw silly faces, or even write out long lists of tasks I am putting of whilst I doodle and joke on my white board.

In the last twelve months in particular, I have kept a ridiculously large “to-do” list on my white board. It grows and shrinks as new bugs are found and squashed. But as yet, I’ve not been anywhere near an empty white board. I’m not bragging. Far from it. I would love to have some sense of closure on this web site project, despite the job security I often joke about.

At the end of last year, in the midst of several months of 80-hour weeks, Tammy stopped by the office for dinner and snapped these pictures of me and my white board. This is when the web site was about half way finished and, as you can see just below the WBQotW, the release date was about to be pushed back yet again.

Isn’t it beautiful? Boy am I blessed! (And fat. *sigh* 80-hour weeks don’t leave much time for exercise. Lucky for me those days are over and I’ve lost… umm… well… about 3 pounds.)

I have determined that there’s not any sensitive information on my board in these pictures, so I uploaded a full sized image for your entertainment. This is what an e-commerce web site looks like on the inside. Pretty messy, huh? Good thing guys like me can stretch a pretty user interface over the top of the chaos.