{"id":3718,"date":"2011-12-22T22:56:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T21:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2025-01-01T16:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T15:41:22","slug":"christmas_dinner_at_ballbreaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/christmas_dinner_at_ballbreaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas dinner at Ballbreaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWe had our company Christmas dinner yesterday, at <a href=\"http:\/\/ballbreaker.se\/\">Ballbreaker<\/a>. Not a surprising choice of venue given that the other five employees are men between the ages of about 30 and 35. To be fair, they did ask if it would be OK with me and I said yes, but I have to admit I said it mostly so as to not be a party pooper.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe place turned out to be much nicer than I had expected. The pre-dinner activities (simulator racing, bowling and slot car racing) were great fun. I suck at car racing but didn&rsquo;t do too badly at bowling.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThen we had our <i>julbord<\/i> (Swedish smorgasbord-style Christmas dinner) and the food also exceeded my expectations, really nice! Delicious herring and <i>Nobel salmon<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter dinner we played <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Table_Shuffleboard\">shufflepuck<\/a> for a couple of hours &ndash; first for fun and points only, then, as the rest of the company was getting increasingly sozzled, for stakes &ndash; developers vs. sales and management. By the time I left, the developer team had won one afternoon <i>fika<\/i> (sort of like afternoon tea) as well as one week of &ldquo;coffee service&rdquo; at the office (i.e. management to make and fetch coffee whenever a developer feels like having some). The third time we wagered 2 hours of manual testing per person (if devs win) against an on-site customer interview (if sales &#038; management win) and this time we lost. At that point I went home but I understand that by the end of the night, various of my colleagues owed each other both lunches and rounds of beer and other things as well.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Shuffleboard_at_Ballbreaker.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\">Shuffleboard. Image &copy; Ballbreaker. The hands in the photo are not ours.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our company Christmas dinner yesterday, at Ballbreaker. Not a surprising choice of venue given that the other five employees are men between the ages of about 30 and 35. To be fair, they did ask if it would be OK with me and I said yes, but I have to admit I said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[790,791,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-christmas","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19973,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/19973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}