Let me tell you about our rockets here at MindComet. We give them out to our team members as a token of appreciation upon the successful launch of a piece for a client. There are some people who have a veritable NASA fleet on their desks complete with space shuttles, Apollo rockets and the like. Not me. I have one rocket....one lonely little rocket. So here it is. I love him very much. He means a lot to me. I walk him every night, and gas him up after long flights around the office...

Ok...I'm lying. He just sits there and collects dust...I admit it. However, maybe he wouldn't sit around so much if he had someone else to play with. Perhaps even a little rocket girlfriend with cute jets and a new paint job! Yes...that would make my little rocket happy! It's to bad that he seems doomed to a life of solitary confinement. "Why?" you may ask. "Haven't you launched more than one piece for a client?" These would be reasonable questions since rockets are given out for such tasks. Oh, you'd like to think I only had one launch wouldn't you? It would make you feel more productive if I had only produced one piece wouldn't it?! Well that is not the case thank you very much. I have launched many pieces for my clients over the last year. Yes folks, the true reason I don't have more rockets is much more sinister: MindComet doesn't give them out anymore! It's true! To hope to receive a rocket in these times is but a mere pipe dream. They have faded away as the muscles of our corporate culture have grown larger and larger. The art of doling out plastic trinkets as a pat on the back is mere legend now, blending in with other myths and unbelievables such as the lock ness monster, Bigfoot and a comeback for Michael Jackson's career.

I miss them. (The rockets...not Bigfoot or Michael Jackson.) Bring them back please. That way, my single cold-war era rocket will have someone to play with other than the dust bunnies on my shelf...
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