monthly birthday in web two-dot-oh land redux

Yet another monthly birthday celebration in the office. It's supposed to be a business meeting type of thing but not quite...

We have a co-worker who's a guest of Sheriff Joe, on work release from tent city. (For those who don't live here in Phoenix our local county jail is partially made up of army tents - Arizona has a big collective hard-on for incarceration.) When it was officially asked whether anyone had any special announcements he shared with us "I only have three more weeks!"

Then he proceeded to tell us a story about the guy who o.d.'d on black tar heroin at 3:30 in the morning and shared that, "He was dumb to do that because your own race will beat you up."

Just like it was normal.

My life is not exciting enough.