At 12:00pm on Thursday, April 17th, Lank, Lowteck, Loki and Bex met up in downtown San Francisco to talk business.



We converged at the intersection of Market and 8th Street, then proceeded underground to take the Muni system into the business district. Along the way we phoned colleagues and argued office politics.



We disembarked at the Montgomery station and returned to the surface, walking along Market Street toward the Embarcadero Center, our destination for lunch. The people of San Francisco proved a friendly, inquisitive bunch, if a tad obsessed with fashion. Several stopped us in the street to chat, but we explained that we were running late for an important business lunch and continued on our way.



We chose to eat at a fine Thai restaurant called Osha, which offers delicious food and friendly service in an upscale, professional atmosphere.



Whilst nestled in the heart of the restaurant, we ate well and talked up a storm. Here are some of the issues we discussed:

- graphs
- forced elf labor
- GPS implants in forced elf labor
- disciplinary issues for forced elf labor
- benefits of replacing elves with monkeys
- replacing forced elf labor with forced monkey labor
- re-branding elf slavery as "involuntary apprenticeship"
- how Janine in marketing is Such a Biatch



When our appetites and our business concerns were satisfied, we toasted on reaching an agreement, and the wait staff recorded the occasion for us.



We were preparing to leave when a man in a suit at a table next to ours asked why we were "all dolled up". We were a bit confused and simply explained that we were working. Hadn't he ever seen people have a Business Lunch? When we stood up, he must have seen our briefcases, because we overheard him say to his colleague, "Oh - they are working."

Then we headed back down Market Street and went back to our respective offices, secure in the knowledge that Important Things in the realm of Business had been accomplished.

And that Monkeys are cute.