Talking shop

Parties with engineers or scientists seem to have points of difference with parties with musicians and singers. While some of us with technical backgrounds (e.g. managing the relay satellites around Mars for the rovers) swapped stories and discussed the use of teaching gardens, the musicians armed with a guitar and accordian were singing Russian and Ukranian songs (with a few English ones and even Je ne regrette rien) in the other room. One fellow demonstrated Russian dancing. (It looked sort of like Zorba, but what do I know?) Much livelier.

I guess we all had a good time in our own ways.