What was it I wanted to say?

A christmas party that morphed into a birthday party: We gathered in an empty apartment, a setting that looked like a modern last supper. We dined on sushi, hot dogs and potato salad (true!). It was surreal. All of us worked together in a former life and looking around the table only our electronics production department was missing - he was committed to another party. We are/were a business at its very minimum each bringing the unique skill sets necessary to form a pretty high tech venture. But we are all older now and the thought of doing it again brings sighs and shrugs. Couldn't we do something easier? Midnight rolled around and we congratulated our patriarch, the brains of the group and the one who now says "what was it I wanted to say?".