Company Picnic
Jul. 10th, 2018 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenTo be more precise, it was the Patent Office Technology Center 3600 picnic. I hitched a ride to Fort Hunt Park, and found that there was a rock group playing amplified noise. A friend of mine told me that one of the musicians (to give that word a very broad meaning) was one of the directors of the Tech Center. “Oh, well, I suppose there’s probably some rule against assassinating a director,” I said.
“It isn’t in the MPEP,” she said. (That’s Manual of Patent Examining Procedure.)
Unfortunately, there is also the Penal Code, so I had to endure the noise, and found it difficult to converse with people over the background in the pavilion. I did spend time out in the sun or under trees, and I played some ladderball (someone thought that’s what it’s called) with a new acquaintance, the son of a man I know; he was about ten years old. There were three sets of two balls connected by a rope, and there were two goals, each having three bars; the idea is to throw a pair of balls so that it wraps around one of the bars at the opposite goal. My young friend did much better that this than I did.
I also got to make friends with a golden retriever, who had a typical golden personality, and let me and everyone else who was interested pet him.
“It isn’t in the MPEP,” she said. (That’s Manual of Patent Examining Procedure.)
Unfortunately, there is also the Penal Code, so I had to endure the noise, and found it difficult to converse with people over the background in the pavilion. I did spend time out in the sun or under trees, and I played some ladderball (someone thought that’s what it’s called) with a new acquaintance, the son of a man I know; he was about ten years old. There were three sets of two balls connected by a rope, and there were two goals, each having three bars; the idea is to throw a pair of balls so that it wraps around one of the bars at the opposite goal. My young friend did much better that this than I did.
I also got to make friends with a golden retriever, who had a typical golden personality, and let me and everyone else who was interested pet him.
