OddThinking

It’s a corporate Christmas party, around 1999. The dot com crash hasn’t happened yet, the party-organisers have a considerable budget, 200-300 guests, and an idea of a good time strongly influenced by the company’s sales and marketing teams – people who have a tendency to differ from my idea of a good time.

I consider how to maximise my happiness in this situation.

Wherein Julian finds he can re-use hobby code to solve a real-life problem.

My father, Joe, smoked cigarettes when he was younger, but he decided he wanted to give up.