Festival in the Air and Free Lunches are not gone

This is last week of December and festivities are in the air. I am invited to attend a chrismas eve dinner , and to a family for christmas dinner. Now, while Christmas cards can do the job, there are kids in both the houses..so, may be I will need to be a candy man too.
Today I had a lunch with a friend in a local restaurant. This pop and mom eatery has named the place after theri first child-Dania. So, it is 'Dania's gormet'. We took Salmon and green beans with fried rice. And talked about an hour over the lunch. Who told the days of free lunch is gone? As the hosting guy was celebrating the joining of a new job, so I didn't have to pay for my lunch today. So, I encourage you all to join the labor force as soon as possible and celebrate by hosting a freel lunch for guys like me who are languising in the graduate school for more than four years in a row...