My suggestion is start around 2, fire up the grill a bit later, keep going into the evening. There are board games, etc. If we want to go truly late, we can move it to a bar. We can also do additional stuff Friday evening, Saturday morning, and Sunday afternoon.

I've had an okay week. Was at an HR Analytics conference on Wednesday and Thursday, it was pretty good. Like all conferences, there are two axes: how good the talk was and how relevant it was to my situation. Usually about half are over the frontier line of good+relevant, and this one met that. There were a couple genuinely good ones, good enough to be relevant even though I'm leaving the arena in a couple months. It was a block from the office, which was nice.

I had a slight twinge of a cold yesterday morning, which turned into feeling like crap in the afternoon and eventually progressed to death and drek in the evening. I may not survive. If I dont' survive, tell my wife I said, "Hello."

We are almost done with season 2 of The Wire.

We've been playing chess a bit more in the cafeteria again. Good.