I've spent the last week in Tulum, on Mexico's beautiful Yucatan Peninsula, for an Automattic meetup. And as usual for these kinds of work gatherings, it was magical (and, after many recent departures, a welcome opportunity to feel a closer connection to those of us that remain).

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This weekend I invited over a bunch of our old university buddies, and it was great.

We still didn't feel up to a repeat of the bigger summer party we held the year before last, but we love our Abnib buddies, so put the call out to say: hey, come on over, bring a tent (or be willing to crash on

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Two years after our last murder mystery party, almost three years since the one before, and much, much longer since our last in-person one, we finally managed to have another get-the-guests-in-one-place murder mystery party, just like old times. And it was great!

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A love a good Jackbox Game. There's nothing quite like sitting around the living room playing Drawful, Champ'd Up, Job Job, Trivia Murder Party, or Patently Stupid. But nowadays getting together in the same place isn't as easy as it used to be, and as often as not I find my Jackbox gaming with

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On account of the pandemic, I'd expected my fortieth birthday to be a somewhat more-muted affair than I'd hoped. I had a banner, I got trolled by bagels, and I received as a gift a pizza oven with which I immediately set fire to several pieces of cookware, but I hadn't expected to be able to do covid-19, party, birthday, memorable, murder mystery

This weekend I announced and then hosted Homa Night II, an effort to use technology to help bridge the chasms that've formed between my diaspora of friends as a result mostly of COVID. To a lesser extent we've been made to feel distant from one another for a while as a result of our very diverse

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It had been a long while since our last murder mystery party: we've only done one or two "kit" ones since we moved in to our current house in 2013, and we're long-overdue a homegrown one (who can forget the joy of Murder at the Magic College?), but in the meantime - and until I have the time and

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Eight years, six months, and one week after I started at the Bodleian, we've gone our separate ways. It's genuinely been the nicest place I've ever worked; the Communications team are a tightly-knit, supportive, caring bunch of diverse misfits and I love them all dearly, but the time had come for bodleian, music, employment, video, job, memorable, drinking, party, cake