action-packed weekend

Shabbat was pleasant and fairly normal for me. Dani, on the other hand, worked all day and well into the night, as the start-up he's working for reinterpreted its Friday deadline as a Monday deadline. (They also reinterpreted their party Saturday night as a January party, rather than encouraging employees to bring laptops, including for their spouses, to the party. :-) ) So he worked in the morning, had Shabbat lunch with me, headed into the office... and returned sometime after 2AM.

Meanwhile, I headed out to ralphmelton and lorimelton's traditional holiday party last night, where much fun was had. I had thought they were going to go light on the baking, what with job stress and stuff, but they went into overdrive again. Anyone who went home from that party hungry did it to himself; there was a great variety of very tasty food. I spent time chatting with a bunch of past coworkers from Claritech, met some of Lori's coworkers, and saw some other folks I know. A few of the usual suspects weren't there this year, but there were other people who were new to me so it all worked out.

However, that was clearly too much fun and could not be permitted without a balancing force. ( Read more... )