A brief update on my life.

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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.

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[querldox.livejournal.com]

Had that happen once (as I put it at the time, 'Can't take it particularly personally when they lay off 45% of the company" (oddly enough, it was later bought by Yahoo!)). While putting my office stuff in the car trunk, I happened up a fake axe that I'd used as part of my Halloween costume.

Took it to the large sports bar where the apres layoff wake was going on, and it proved to be very popular, particularly for managers (who'd been laid off themselves) posing holding the axe above the necks of their reports who'd been laid off.