Just a day at the office ...

So Amanda and I arranged for Nathaniel to come visit me at work yesterday (Monday). We figured that all my coworkers at the Courier-Post had heard so much about him, it was about time they met him in person.
We would have done it earlier, but we are still concerned about cold- and flu-type infections. His immune system isn't 100 percent, so we've been trying to keep visits such as this to a minimum. But Amanda is headed back to work Monday, and I'll be off for more than a month, so now seemed like the time to visit.

But the little guy almost got upstaged by all the unusual visitors to the building Monday. Shortly before Amanda and Nathaniel arrived, I heard talk of an albino python and a monkey in the building. Apparently, some Six Flags Great Adventure types stopped by to make sure South Jerseyans knew they were looking for several thousand people to work at the park this summer. It turns out it wasn't a monkey, but people still were quite interested when the animals toured the building. (We were so concerned about human illnesses ... we never thought we'd have to work to keep Nathaniel away from wild animals as well.)

A little later, possible gubernatorial candidate Joe Piscopo stopped by. He stopped in a few departments to discuss various issues. I talked to him briefly about jobs in manufacturing in Camden.

That's quite a bit of competition for little Nathaniel, but I think he held his own. The crowds might have been biggest around the animals, but most of those people just stopped for a couple of minutes. When people came by to see Nathaniel, they were locked in for much longer times -- and Nathaniel was asleep most of the time, while the monkey thing was climbing on people.

In the end. I'd take Nathaniel any day.