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If you're going to implement a strong, mandatory, inconvenient policy, it would sure be a good idea to issue a memo, or an all-staff email, or post it on the intranet.

Having to have our IS guy visit each person in the whole site to explain that their computer was locked while they were in the restroom or at lunch, and it will lock itself after 15 minutes of inactivity henceforth, just stinks, for us and for the hapless IS guy. (It also lends itself to people choosing the shortest, weakest passwords they can get away with, if they have to log in several times a day.)

Big dinner notes

Notes for next time:
Drinks in pitchers. Surely we can whittle down our offerings to two or three cocktails in addition to wine so jducoeur is not bartending individual drinks but can premake a pitcher of 8 poma-tinis. Also if making individual drinks, a second or third shaker would be handy.
More meat. Also perhaps a volunteer to carve who's better at it than I and would get more yield. I feel bad that we seem to have run out of meat, especially since the joints still had more that could've been cut.
Bake the potatoes longer/hotter. Overcooking is not as big a crime as under, with taters.
Salt & pepper shakers. D'oh. Just because *I* eat low-sodium....
Salad dressing in a gravy boat or a glass bottle.
Find the dadgum cheese spreaders, too. Though butter knives sufficed.