A brief update on my life.

Things are good.

Anyway, yesterday, at work, we were expecting a party of 15 people to show up at 3:30. I tend to do most of my prep for the evening between, oh, 2 and 4 or so, which is the slack time between lunch and dinner (we're still open, but there are fewer guests), so I made sure to be done with prep on the early side.

Then, at 3, about fifteen people came in. I asked if they were the party we were waiting for, and they said, no, they hadn't called ahead or anything -- they had all just been laid off, their entire department.

Vincent bought their first round for them. They stayed for quite some time -- some of them were still there when I left at 7. They drank, and played Buzztime Trivia (we have a subscription to a nationwide trivia service -- after each game, each player is ranked against the other players in the bar, but also, each bar is ranked against each other), and actually had a pretty good Irish wake for their jobs.

Tuesday afternoons are not typically busy. But we were really hopping yesterday.