Mesure by Mesure
I got an email yesterday evening asking, “Who is that guy doing the Peanuts Christmas dance in front of the Hawley sign?”. That peanut is Phil, the head of our IT department. He is the man behind the curtain, orchestrating the internals of our online commerce juggernaut as it rumbles along vanquishing animate and inanimate objects alike (ably assisted by Dan and Steve). It (the commerce juggernaut) runs on an engine cobbled together from the skulls of orphans and fueled with “the black blood of the earth” “You mean oil Phil?” “No, I mean black blood of the earth!”. Phil roasts his own coffee, is an avid fencer and rides a motorcycle. Yeah, we’re pretty sure he’s got a steady supply of “black blood of the earth”. By the way: FENCING. Phil fences, unlike most people, for enjoyment and not for settling imagined offenses of the gravest nature in order to recoup a modicum of personal honor. Perhaps one day we’ll have a quick fencing lesson on the blog from Phil (he keeps a duffel bag full of foils and epees in his van) so you can see how a social better gives a disease-ridden serf a jolly good thrashing (it’s called Hawley MANOR for a reason), but until then here are those loveable, parent-less children dancing erratically to music that they can never hear:
