My Worst New Years Experience. What is yours?
Went to a party at a nice hotel in Chicago with some friends. We had a couple of rooms and the plan was, once the ballroom party was over we would continue to party in the room all night and watch the sunrise in the morning over the lake. Good plan anyway. At the time I was one of a team of people supporting a bunch of financial applications. At the time I was 24. I was the only unmarried person and I didn't have any kids so naturally everyone asked me if I would carry the support pager for New Years. I wasn't happy about it but it rarely went off after hours so no big deal. I couldn't tell you how many times I did that while I was single - carried the support pager, canceled vacations etc to cover for my colleagues that had families/kids etc. Anyway, as you have probably guessed by now, the pager went off and there was a massive issue with a critical production app going down and everything else waiting in line for it. I had barely eaten two bites of a fantastic dinner and the pager went off. I spent the next six hours working on the issue from the hotel room, alone with my laptop. I missed everything and when my friends all came to the room to continue the party I wasn't even close to being done. I worked in the bathroom (thankfully there were two) while everyone had a good time. I finished in time to see the sunrise but that was little consolation though.
Posted Dec 31, 2010, 4:16 PM UTC
I sat on my bed, alone, and watched the clock go from 11:59 to 12:00.
Yea, that's my fate tonight...I might have a cat with me.
Oh man, I'd hate to be your cat. (Kidding. All the best for the New Year)
Cat the wine or cat the animal?
this year I'll have my 6 month old to kiss at midnight, but my husband has conveniently gone to Texas and abandoned me. I will have a cat too, probably clawing at my face, and a dog snoring down at the end of my bed. :-)