I've been meaning to have dinner with Jane and David for some time, and little did I know that Jane was dropping by at the office tonight to go out with David for dinner. I had reached a good stopping point at work, so being the opportunistic and romantic-dinner-mood-breaking bastard that I am, I tagged along. ;)

We ended up at the Casbah which is a very nice restaurant, and most often the destination of choice when we have clients in town that we're taking out for dinner. On the dinner table were good food and lots of different topics, a large chunk of which was driven by my incessant enquiry into the whole "growing up, getting married, and having kids" paradigm that I have yet to fully come to grips with.

More than anything, it's just really great to be able to spend quality time with other MAYAns in a quiet setting like this. I don't know how other MAYAns feel, but for a kid who's a gazillion miles away from home and his family, his only real family members are... well, MAYAns. It is a bit of a shame that we can no longer have small parties at Pete's house like we used to instead of getting shoved into a big warehouse where we're all scattered around looking for the circular table that you feel most comfortable sitting in.

Would I be too greedy to wish that MAYAns would be able to have more of these nice quality outings? Uh, what did you say? Oh, no... sitting around in a noisy bar drinking beer doesn't count as a quality outing in my book. *HMPH* =P