I’ve spent most of the week in Milpitas, California. I’ll fly back to Colorado Springs this evening so I can get a flu shot tomorrow morning. It’s been a good week, most of the meetings have been worthwhile, and the weather has been quite good. The shopping trips to Frys have also been fruitful. It’d be nice to have a store like that somewhere in the Colorado Springs / Denver area!

This morning I drove over to another building for a meeting. We have people in several buildings in a four or five block area, so we call it a campus, but in our case it’s a campus with lots of other companies interspersed. As I turned into the parking lot, this large sign was positioned right at the entrance into the parking lot. It caused me to chuckle a bit. Our’s is the large building in the background. Unlike the buildings on both sides (which are vacant), men are working in this building? Or is it that there are only men working? It might also possibly mean the men are working but women are not? After I got into the parking lot, I discovered that there were folks in the trees trimming them. Perhaps it means that only men are in the trees, or it might mean that although anyone can be in the trees, only the men are working…. I’ve pushed this far beyond what it’s worth, but it gave me a chuckle this morning.

It’s quite possible that this sign is intended to limit liability. A year or so ago there was quite a wind storm in the area causing a large tree in the back of this building to break down and drop a very large limb on a very expensive sports car. The car was smashed beyond repair. Even though people were working in the trees around the building this morning, cars were still parked underneath the trees. I’d guess that if someone drove past this large sign, parked under one of the trees being trimmed, and had a debris fall from the tree doing damage to the car, that the sign might possibly limit the tree-trimming-company’s liability. But, this is California where logic rarely prevails. There are people here who would deliberately park underneath one of these trees just in case something might happen and they could sue….