Company Xmas Party - Verisign

The day before our company Xmas party, the finance dept (including me) stayed up until 12:30am reconciling and closing for the Nov month end. My first month end closing (if you're an acct, you would understand what month end closing is all about). Since we stayed up all night working, we get to have a choice of dinner. And of course, you know how I love sushi so much, we ordered japanese food from downstairs (Masuyas at O'Connell St). The restaurant downstairs is supposed to be good. But I was disappointed. Asian food here is not as good as back home. The unagi I ordered was just ok. Ray's sushi in Hayward is still better.

Anyway, the following day was our Xmas party. But before we could go, we had to finalize everything for month end closing. I get to the office and the controller tells me that the master file we saved last night was corrupted. This is the MASTER file with all the reconciliations, data, everything (my boss calls it his "whole life"). Its a big OH NO!!! And not right before our Xmas party...our boat leaves at exactly 1pm from the harbor. But thank goodness, after talking to the IT people, we were able to retrieve 99% of the file about an hour before the boat leaves. Thank you!!! Oh, and by the way, it just so happens that the day of our Xmas party has been the hottest day of the summer (39 degrees celsius - that's about 102 F degrees...yikes!!!). See our boat below.

After 4.5hrs on the boat eating, drinking, and others swimming, we docked in Darling Harbour and headed to Bungalow 8 for a couple more hours of drinking. It was still scorching hot everyone was sweating like a pig. Finally, we headed to a Spanish restaurant (Capitan Torres) at the Spanish Quarters for dinner...with AC. Whew! We needed that. Here's the roasted pig we ate to finish off the night: