So, what is it that you *do*, Dad?

I kept a promise yesterday by taking my eight-year old daughter into the office. I missed the official "Take Your Daughter To Work Day" but I really wanted to do this.

She was very excited and she told me she really loved my work and wanted to go again.

I found this mystifying, as this was our day:

• Take BART from North Berkeley to Union City (45 minutes)
• Take the Dumbarton Express bus over the Dumbarton Bridge to the Menlo Park campus
• Get some breakfast
• Meet with the *one* person in my team who (a) works in the Bay Area and (b) was in the office
  
• Color and listen to stories on her MP3 player while I worked
• Go to lunch
• Color and listen to stories while I worked
• Go to coffee
• Color and listen to stories while I worked
• Take the bus and BART back home

I tried to get her to tell me what it was she loved about going into the office, but she didn't come up with anything specific.

You know what I think. I think it's just great that she and I spent the day together. She knows it, I know it, and it had nothing to do with what we did. Just in itself, it was precious.

Something to seriously keep in mind.