I know I am behind in updating a few things here.  There are two trips that I need to write up, and maybe some other observations .  But I wanted to pass along a quick tale real quick because what happened was so funny.

The new year brings us changes and new bosses. These few weeks afford us the time to build a game plan for how to attack not only the coming year but also the needs of the incoming administraton.

Little chat sessions in the office help hammer out details on what equipment and software we need to provide … Wait did you hear that?  There it is again. What the helll is something crawling up there?

Yup, something was crawling in our ceiling tiles. We knew it wasn’t just people pulling cables - one of the cable pullers was in our space asking us a question soon after we discovered the sound. So we figures we either had a rat or a squirrel playing around up there.

We were trying to follow the sounds - I think it is over there, listen … Shit!  It sounds like there are ages of them. WTF dude.

Paul called the building peipleto tell them and we tried to go back to work. Have you ever tried concentrating on work when there are critters scurrying over head on ceiling tiles you just know will crumble any moment?  If not then let me tell ya, it ain’t east.

A few people cam in and we shared in the creepy sounds of the studio.  There we were 4 guys being all tough and hardened.  ”Just grab a ladder and see what is up there” was thrown out there. “oh it will be scared if it sees anyone so let’s do it”, sure these suggestions were placed on the table but no one actually was stepping up to the plate to do any of it.

We tried, again to go back to work and ignore the visitor. GSA wouldn’t be by until the morning to do anything so might as well move on. A minute or two later we heard a noise around the corner - a corner ceiling tile had fallen down. Paul and I went to investigate and we ended up doing a scene from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”. Out popped a little head - as we were checking out the hole - and we both jumped back and said, not too quietly, SQUIRREL!

Haha, you should have seen us. We were laughing our asses off because of this little furry thing poking out and startling us. After seeing the little nose pop put a few more times we, the photographer, finally realize we should be shooting this. Paul grabbed the vid cam and I did a brief intro (I need to see if I can grab the video to see my goody self) - to get the audience up to speed. And then … Nothing.

We heard some noises but after a few minutes nothing. Our little friend either went elsewhere or found its way back out.

For the rest of the work day we heard nothing - all this started about 3:30 btw.  So our adventure with the furry friend came to a close … for now.