{"id":1340,"date":"2018-06-10T22:01:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T22:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2018-06-10T22:01:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T22:01:29","slug":"fridays-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/fridays-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Fridays again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have <a href=\"\/oldfartsalmanac\/friday-food-drink-and-good-stuff\/\">mentioned before<\/a>, one of the loveliest things about London (possibly England (possibly Britain (possibly Europe))) is the &#8220;after work drink&#8221;, especially on a Friday. In this job, my 12,000th since moving to America, I am very lucky to not only have a bunch of people who enjoy the same semi-religious ritual, but we also have a de-facto place to worship.<br \/>\nNothing dramatic, gossip-worthy, or significant, needs to happen; we just need to talk and laugh. It sounds like such a simple recipe doesn&#8217;t it? But it&#8217;s surprisingly difficult to find. You need people with whom you can communicate in a way that doesn&#8217;t involve sport, and also who aren&#8217;t affected negatively by someone with a foreign accent, and who says a lot of stuff that doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense. You also need people who don&#8217;t drive to work. How fortunate to have found such people! And tonight, after my old team-mates had left to pursue their commutes and domestic duties, how extra-lucky was I to be invited into a new cabal of people who work in a related team and share this odd collection of values?<\/p>\n<p>It has been a while since I last blogged, and a lot has happened. The last couple of weeks have been genuinely enjoyable and that probably has something to do with why it&#8217;s easy to write again. <\/p>\n<p>Some cryptic stuff to remind myself about why life has been enjoyable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working with Homehub CPE on TLS1.2.<\/li>\n<li>Nick and his team are delightful to work with.<\/li>\n<li>Pub quiz with Matt, RJ et al<\/li>\n<li>Birds&#8230;including Russ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned before, one of the loveliest things about London (possibly England (possibly Britain (possibly Europe))) is the &#8220;after work drink&#8221;, especially on a Friday. In this job, my 12,000th since moving to America, I am very lucky to not only have a bunch of people who enjoy the same semi-religious ritual, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-the-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}