{"id":15730,"date":"2006-12-20T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2006\/12\/20\/it-sucks-in-the-4\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:46","slug":"it-sucks-in-the-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2006\/12\/20\/it-sucks-in-the-4\/","title":{"rendered":"It sucks in the 4%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was our company Xmas party. It was great to kick up my heels with these people who all work so hard together through the year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The event was at the Steamwhistle brewery, a converted old railyard roundhouse. So the beer flowed free and I drank my head off, as you do at these things. I wore my kilt, so I got the requisite question and some grabbing, but I didn&#8217;t get to be inappropriate because the one guy I fancied&#8230; Well, you know. He&#8217;s in the other 96%. So I got to watch him try to score all evening, then finally succeed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Of course, getting entangled on these trips is a bad idea, I know that from experience. Last night at the party a friend gave me an update on the fella from a few Christmases ago. He&#8217;s happily involved. I was indifferent when she told me, but I must confess that this morning I feel less indifferent. (For future reference, I <i>never<\/i> want these updates.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Drink makes things important that aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m on an airplane, rehydrating a hangover with a plastic glass of ice water. A million thanks go to my teammate Shannon, who drove me to the airport. I dread to think what a shambles I would have been if I had to get there on public transit with my overweight bag and three hours&#8217; sleep. Thanks also to Lisa and Alvaro, whose medicine cabinet I raided this morning for some Tylenol. I figured they owed me: their puppy pissed on my bed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had lots of requests over the past few days for me to move back to Toronto, which would be far too easy. But no, Scotland is calling me home.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>For now, I&#8217;m off to see my family, and I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/959\/it-sucks-in-the-40.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was our company Xmas party. It was great to kick up my heels with these people who all work so hard together through the year. &lt; p&gt; The event was at the Steamwhistle brewery, a converted old railyard roundhouse. So the beer flowed free and I drank my head off, as you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}