End of the Wednesday night dinners
Just got a pretty funny email from Steinhorn (who now asks to be called J. Scott):
Subject: And so it goes…
It all started with a get-together at my favorite Chinese restaurant – Hunan Chili…
I had just started working at Tellme, and thought it would be fun to get together for dinner with Heidema and JSK. I was wrong. But nonetheless, a great tradition started…and a couple weeks later, Bill joined and the tradition strengthened…
WEDNESDAY NIGHT DINNER was born!
After 88 weeks and 65 dinners at 56 restaurants (yeah, we had a couple repeats), it appears the tradition is unfortunately coming to an end. It makes me sad, but also gives me a chance to analyze a spreadsheet, which makes me happy. :-)
Here are some stats:
- Number of dinners that Heidema attended: 51
- Number of dinners that Steinhorn attended: 62
- Number of dinners that JSK attended: 62
- Number of dinners that Bill attended: 59
- Number of dinners that Carol attended (she made a wonderful stand-in): 10
- Number of dinners that Rookie attended: 2
- Number of times JSK was sick, threatened not to come, but then did anyway: ~17
- Number of times Steinhorn ended dinner drunk: ~35
- Number of times Bill ordered steak well-done: ~20
- Number of times Bill had to complain about steak not being well-done enough: ~20
- Number of times Heidema flirted with the waitress: ~30
- Number of times Heidema flirted with the waiter: ~20
- Number of times Bill made a comment to Carol indicated she was too good for Steinhorn: Too many to count
- Number of times Steinhorn made a stupid comment proving Bill is probably right: Too many to count
- Special guests included:
o Bill Watt (our first special guest!)
o Jamie Iannone
o Malia Mueller
o Adam Ables
o John Bodine
o Josh Scott
o Dave McClure
o One of Heidema’s friends from east coast who was a great JSK stand-in, but I can’t remember his name
o Elliot Shmukler (our only two-time special guest, not including Carol and Rookie)
o All the people JSK likes and nobody else does (at his b-day party in 2006)
ALMOST final updated spreadsheet attached…I look forward to finishing this up on Tuesday and hopefully adding some new rows in the future (with all attendees present)…and who know, maybe you guys will even find a replacement for me (keep an open mind, Bill!)…
J Scott
And for the record… my friends in the city have already proposed replacing Wed night dinner with Wed night drinking so consider yourself replaced.