In celebration of getting a major release out of the door, my section of the business was just treated to champagne and cakes at company expense. (Well, fruit rather than cakes for me at least.)

It's traditional in this company to have a modest champagne celebration when we release something. Usually they happen in the late afternoon, which is of course terribly inconvenient for anyone who has to drive home; this time, however, the champagne showed up at ten in the morning, which I think is a much better idea. Not only is it more practical, but it feels a great deal more decadent, which enhances the feeling of celebration.

(When they serve alcohol late in the day, it's not unheard of for me to drink it anyway, take the bus home, and leave my car at work overnight until I can take the bus in the next day and rescue it. It would be more inconvenient to do that over a weekend, though, so I'm particularly glad I didn't have to make the choice.)

The only flaw is that nobody is going to get anything particularly useful done for the rest of the day. So it goes :-)