Welcome Danny
After six months of work my team finally took me out to lunch. Well actually it was more like they took my new co-worker Danny (who is my ex coworker whom I helped got the job by recruiting him away from my old company.) So I am not bitter at all! 
For lunch we went to Banana Leaf and afterward I didn't feel so bad after all. Haha. In the end it doesn't matter if they took me out a little later than normal, but that I got to eat good (and fairly expensive) food.
During lunch it dawned on me that all my co-workers were mostly Chinese except for one Indian engineer. When I joined there were three and they switched to another department. Hmm...I would predict that last Indian engineer would not be in our group within 6 mos. Hehe. My manager even mentioned about this during lunch. In any case I would like to officially welcome my good buddie Danny on board. Good times and good talks about spirituality ahead. Good times good times!
Work is starting to get busy and hectic/stressful. Normally I would de-stress by getting out of the office for a swim but I missed it today for lunch. Other way I de-stress is to go for a run but somehow a run in the dark isn't so fun. Unless it is for a run that was specifically in the dark with other runners. Ahhh motivation for running is at an all time low But I do go a little stir crazy if I don't go for a run...just have to get out before sunset.