Time to go

I am sitting down now at my desk at RAC on my last day in the office before I fly out on Sunday. I still have a mountain of "filing" to get done - I suspect that will entail opening a drawing and pushing everything in. I am really going to miss working with the Insights team, who constantly make me laugh. It is a really great combination that we have in the team with very high dedication to the job, balanced with an easy relaxed approach to working with each other.

One classic example of how this team "challenges" each other was "the bet" from yesterday, which erupted from some innocent comments on the best way to chill beer - a classic dilemna we all face from time to time. This team can take the most basic of challenges and turn it into a scientific experiement - see the conditions of the "the bet" below.

The Toadfish Rebecky has made a bet that he can get a room temperature beer, and turn it into the ideal drinking temperature within 5 minutes.
He will be using a mixture of Ice and Salt.

Conditions of the bet:
Ideal Drinking Temperature = 8 degrees Celsius for a bottom fermenting beer is assumed to be the ideal drinking temperature.
Room Temperature = within the range of 20 to 23.5 degrees Celsius
A stopwatch will be used to time the ‘submersion of the beer.’
The beer will be taken out of the refrigerating vessel at the 5 minute mark, and poured directly into a glass chilled to 8 degrees Celsius.
A thermometer will be placed into the middle of the glass (without touching the sides), and after 30 seconds the temperature will be recorded.

Harry loses if the recorded temperature is above 8.5 degrees Celsius… and also if it is less than 7.5 degrees Celsius (obviously too cold to fully appreciate the beverage).

It is this sort of precise thinking that gets applied to challenges of the RAC.

Anyway better get back to that "filing".