Bounenkai

The kids went home for winter break about four hours ago, and in another two we'll (we being the staff here at Hishida) will be heading out to the Excel Hotel Tokyu for our bounenkai. In Japanese, it's written 忘年会, with the first character meaning "forget", the second being "year" and the last signifying a meeting or gathering of some kind. You can roughly translate the entire phrase as a "forget the year party." I haven't asked if they'll be serving Duff.