Last night I went to a holiday party with the most random people; it was interesting to see all of these types in one room together: a frou frou mountain brook couple, a few computer geeks who haven't seen the light of day in 20 years, a group of big, buff black dudes, a couple of gay guys with weird facial hair patterns and lots of head jewelry, and a couple of guys who could have played the banjo in the movie Deliverance. And there were lots of other people who didn't stand out quite as much. The one common thread holding us together is that we are pee-ons at work or know a pee-on who works in my department.

Everyone got along splendidly and my fellow pee-ons are pretty interesting people once you get them to talk about something other than hardware or software.

It was BYOB so I brought one beer for myself (yeah I'm a wild one) and I brought butterscotch schnapps and made shots with Bailey's. I was hoping to see people get drunk and then do stuff we could talk about on Monday, but these folks aren't that dumb.