The holidays are over and life it getting back to normal around here. I can tell because I totally geeked-out this weekend. First there was Friday's awesome Battlestar Galactica season premier, then I arranged and filed hundreds of comic books, and then there was tonight's lan party!

Hasser (having just moved, and not having broadband) threw his computer in a suitcase and rolled it over to LLR headquarters, so that we could keep a much anticipated "league night" appointment.




Basically, over the past five years a tight-knit little group of co-workers/friends have all met-up for late night Everquest adventures. It used to be something that would doom us to eternal sleep debt. We'd spend all night plundering virtual dungeons, slosh into work the next day exhausted, and work all day before heading home to our computers. And somewhere in there - much to the chagrin of our co-workers - there'd be many spirited discussions about hobbits and unicorns.




Anyway, over the years it's been increasingly difficult for everyone to hook-up at the same time. We've been fighting a losing battle against time zones, work schedules, and late-night cocktails. So, our solution has become "sunday night league night" - something that's been interrupted lately by the holidays, ice storms, cross-country moves, and hardware malfunctions. This weekend we weren't going to let anything stand in our way.

And, in closing: we rocked it.

At this point the story should probably end. After this everything else in this post will be about fighting lava goblins, and how I looted a really sweet Minotaur axe.

Some things are probably better left unspoken...at least until next weeks' league night.



[quick notes: The photo of our EQ gang is actually a recreation of a photo from 5 years ago when I was gonna write an EQ article on one of my old websites. Missing in the photo above is our fourth musketeer, Audio (a wood elf ranger we desperately needed last night). Reichen, where were you? Next week!]