Dinner With The Gang

I had dinner Saturday night with some of the old University of Denver Bookstore gang.  As regular Blog readers know, the the University of Denver outsourced the DU Bookstore to Follett Higher Education Group a couple of years ago, laying off the employees and resulting in the former staff spreading out far and wide.  Darrel and his wife Linda invited us all to their house for pizza, and it evolved into a kind of pot luck, and a damn fine one, too. In the photograph above are - from left to right - Darrell and his wife Linda, Jim and his wife Chris, and Jake and his significant other Valarie.  Darrel was the Accounts Payable Manager for the DU Bookstore, Chris was the Accounts Payable Assistant, and Valarie was the Operations Manager.  I myself was the Finance Manager, back when I was on top.  It was a wonderful evening, and everyone stayed until almost 11:00.  Whereas at previous gatherings we talked about the good old days and what everyone is doing now, this past Saturday night a good part of the evening was spent discussing the presidential candidates and the upcoming caucuses and primaries, and the very real possibility of a Bernie Sanders - Donald Trump contest.  It was a great evening, but at the end everyone agreed that it was my turn to host the next get-together next.  Which means I will actually have to clean my place.  And that could take months, if not years.  Time to call Molly Maids.