Editor’s Note - I do not know how I could have missed mentioning Rick and Laurie originally. Rick was the DVD Master after all, and no one will ever doubt his knowledge of all things Calgon again! On top of that Laurie brought the excellent brownies! Man, at 2 whatever AM my brain was just somewhere else.
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So tonight was Non-Initech “Game Night” round 3. We managed to top New Years Eve attendence and I once again wound up staying out (and up) well past 2:00 AM. This is NEWS for me people. This simply does NOT happen. I must really like you people to be willing to change my ever-so-important schedule for you (who am I kidding? My social calendar is always open).
The night began with a fun journey to try and find U ave on the Lawton side. I got it *mostly* right but turned east too early. Thankfully, most of the North/South roads in Van Buren County are bound to hit U eventually (known as CR 354 in Van Buren). I managed to get to Lori’s early in the hope that I could help setup. I didn’t really accomplish this, but I was the first one there so Go Me!
We were quickly joined by the Reeds, Eric and Rachel, and Bert. A quick aside…
Happy Birthday Bert!
And then Laura showed up, followed by Rick and Laurie (or was that the other way around?), and somewhere in here Steve and his wife (whose name I can’t remember at the moment) arrived, then Peter and finally Wendy. Next thing you know we’ve got a rockin’ party going. I just have to say, Scene It really isn’t a good “large number of people” game IMHO. Maybe if we’d broken into smaller teams…who knows.
The strange thing is at various times tonight I found myself regressing into my shell. I’m not really sure why. I don’t know if it was simply me, or the extra people I didn’t know yet, or something else. I hope (and I think) by the end of the night I’d returned to my normal abnormal self. It was just confusing and frustrating to catch myself “wearing the mask”.
Hopefully, now that I’ve met everyone, this won’t happen again. I’m still confused/perplexed and somewhat consumed by the night though. I just don’t know why I slipped. Maybe something will make sense after sleep. Good night all, thanks for an exciting evening.
