One Wednesday November 5th, 2008 I went to work wearing a dark suit, white shirt and a black tie.  I work in a business causal environment so seeing someone in a suit usually means one thing, they have an interview.  I am not sure why but everyone always wants to be around you when you have an interview.  Maybe because they want to know more about possible openings inside the company, perhaps it is because there is someone in the world ready to move on up and people want to be close to this new power broker, but probably it is because in the cubical world that we live in, it is just what people do.

Anyway, I came in wearing a suit and as I suspected it got some attention.  I was asked where I was interviewing and with what group.  I let them know the sad news that I was not interviewing but rather that the prior night I had lost a dear friend.  Of course, the loss of friend is never an easy thing to deal with, no one is quite sure what to say and it is a sad moment to reflect on the mortality we all face.

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