I was running late this morning, and when I walked into the office it was completely empty. Crap, I thought, today must be the off-site meeting. I looked up the address and raced off, in gross violation of the speed limit. Arrived at the meeting site to find an empty parking lot there, too.

I headed back to work to doublecheck the address and time, wondering if my boss would write me up for this one. I run into Dean, who works in the cube across from me, and in a half-panic ask him where the off-site meeting is. “That’s tomorrow,” he says. “Then where is everyone?” I gasp. “It’s MLK Day,” he says. “I’m just here to drop off a photo someone ordered.”

Whew. I seriously had no idea that my new company took Martin Luther King Jr. Day off. Well, now I’m just annoyed that I drove all this way needlessly. (When your commute is as long as mine, it’s not a trip to make lightly.) Guess I’ll spend some time coding on Zyps, since I have a nice quiet office to do it in.