I kid. Actually, we had a great time. Free champaign, free hors d’vours, good music, and a wide array of attractive and well-dressed people….who could ask for more on what would otherwise be a normal Thursday night of drinking Jameson at the Utah Saloon and working on websites in my jammies? Chronicle Books really knows how to throw a party, and their new space on 2nd Street (around the corner from my office) is awesome – a post 1906 Earthquake brick construction rehabilitated and retrofitted. The space is open, with floor-to-ceiling windows and awesome views of the South Beach neightborhood of San Francisco.

And as a sidenote: the gift bags had some great contents including a set of designer pocket notebooks comemorating the event, a Chronicle magnet, a luggage tag and a deck of cards with “Things to do in San Francisco.” The potential to regift is low since everything has their logo on it, but what the heck, it was a nice gift so I don’t mind keeping it.

For the last week my partner in crime Jeremy has been working away creating the new Chronicle Books blog, while I intermitantly over his shoulder trying to help him troubleshoot pluggin errors and find work arounds for the read/write permissions that kept the site’s trackbacks from working correctly…so decompressing with some bubbly on the house was in order!

It was a fun night out to celebrate the company that’s responsible for all of those coffee table books I’ve gotten people when I’m not sure what else to buy (actually I love thier publications – they are very well designed beautiful books that do make great gifts). That aside though, the best part of the night for me: on our way out there was a large paper taped to the wall with squares graphed on it for people to draw/write on about the event. Most people wrote things like “congratulations” and “happy 40th”….as did we in our own way….

Posted on Friday, May 11th, 2007 at 5:38 pm Follow responses via the RSS 2.0 feed.