San Francisco And A Murder In The Basement

It is perhaps a bad time to work out that your AC isn’t working properly during a day where you have all the ovens running for over eight hours and almost twenty people in the basement trying to solve a murder mystery. Thankfully, nobody fainted out! And further confirmation that Irish and Filipino attitudes to catering a home event are broadly similar¹.

(feelings on the murder mystery summed up: a good night, but we think we can put together a better mystery game where there’s more involvement and things to do for everybody. We have problems. But who doesn’t want a dinner party, a murder mystery, and an escape room set in the 1920s all combined, eh?)

The rest of my rest was occupied by a last-minute jaunt to San Francisco for my orientation at Lucidworks. Feelings on that:

• The more I visit, the less appealing SF becomes. So good choice on Ohio, I guess!
• I appear to have picked up a local bar. Why not take a visit to Elixir? It’s not a huge bar, but their collection is sizable.
• Scouring the local Targets finally resulted in me finding Elita-1, rounding off the figures from the most recent Transformers line that I was interested in
• (yes, my suitcase was heavier coming back)
• With the work laptop sitting next to me right now, I’m regretting not getting Space Grey on my personal laptop.
• By the penultimate day, my appetite for doing anything in the evening tends to zero.
• I really don’t want to do those overnight flights back to Cincinnati any time soon.
• Everybody at Lucidworks seems friendly and sharp.