The neighborhood where I live in a Philadelphia - a well-off neighborhood right in Center City - has an annual holiday party right before Xmas. In the previous years that I've led this initiative, I've generally nailed it, coming up with exactly the right amount of food and beverages, or - worst case - not having enough.

But this year - and for no particular reason I can point - I had too much. By quite a margin, too.

So in a seat-of-the-pants response, without a plan, we followed nearly the exact same approach as described here and methodically moved to the remainders to a homeless hospice that's also downtown.

While I didn't get to partake in the distribution on that end, it says something about our neighborhood and the fellow workers who assisted me in this event that it never occurred to us to toss it.

Well done to the Cisco team in San Francisco.