Closing dinner

Our client  (on one of our jobs) treated all of us (who worked on the project) to a "closing dinner" at OYA downtown.  Very nice.  Good feelings all around, drinks were flowing, the food was great (though sparse as is typical in haute cuisine), and we cemented some relationships.

This is an intense, hard charging group of people.  Type A personalities all around.  Many feathers ruffled during many meetings as the project took shape and we marked our respective territories.  Animated and sometimes angry conversations about process and product, telephone conferences with bad connections, crossed e-mails, unyielding government agencies, and high levels of stress.  Not to mention an extremely slow cashflow (not unlike molasses in January).

Recognizing these difficulties that enabled the project to proceed to construction made tonight's dinner that much more enjoyable.  Things can get done when you work together and work toward a common goal which will ultimately benefit a large number of people.  It's not always smooth, but if it was, everyone would be doing it.