So... who knew that the attraction of Go could be such an amazing party?

Tonight, we had 15 people all at parmonster's place to play games, eat food, and socialize. But more than anything else, we were all there to play go.

It was like a dream come true. There were a ton of my friends playing Go! At the peak of the night, there were four games of Go going at once, with several onlookers! I was playing Go against two people at the same time, both of which were really challenging games. It was incredible!

The full guest list was as follows:
paradox_puree
chirik
parmonster
flakish
gtonizuka
viesti
dv_girl
rachelbythebay
orange56gal
blackberry74
centauress
thespatula
dana_grrl
foxgrrl
Evonna, unknonwn LJ.

Of these, 10 actually played Go at some point during the night.

Wow. Just... wow.

Thank you to all of you. You just gave me one of the most incredible and awesome parties that I have ever had the pleasure of being present at. And frankly, the fact that so many people were into Go, and some of them were on my skill level, was like a dream come true. I was ecstatic throughout most of the night. Wow.

From Go party

This picture was when we had 4 simultaneous games going on on the floor. We later moved to the table to make more room for folks:

From Go party

chirik, dana_grrl, rachelbythebay and Evonna were more or less playing Go for the first time tonight, and I got to give them some teaching games.

centauress, parmonster, and orange56gal had played before, but not really much. They were helping some of the other players and enjoying themelves in their own way.

I began the night playing a game with viesti, finishing up a game that we had started a few days ago. She's been taking incredibly long moves, on the order of 20-30 minutes for some of them. Impressively, it results in some really really good moves on her part, but extremely slow games.

While we were playing, dv_girl arrived, and I decided that I wanted to play against her. But my game with viesti was still going on. So I decided to try to do something new that I've never done before: I played both games simultaneously.

That was HARD! So before this, I was going to help out with some of the hostessing. Running around, making people feel welcome, setting up things for people, etc. Even though it was parmonster's place, having been the one to suggest the party, I wanted to help out. So, in between moves in the Go game, I was helping out by running around and doing stuff. But when the second game started, I reached full mental capacity. I could no longer do anything but play those two games. But boy oh boy was it fun. And it was great for my ADD-like brain to be completely overwhelmed with data like that.

I wound up playing a total of three games. I beat dv_girl in both games with her, but I lost to viesti in our matchup.

I'm really really really appreciative of parmonster running around doing the hostess thing. I feel that I should have been helping more, but she really did a great job of handling the entire crowd herself. She also helped me do my laundry, which should have been a totally awesome thing, but alas, she put some things in the dryer that shouldn't have gone in there, and it ruined some of my clothes. But hey, it's the thought that counts, eh? I really appreciate that she let me use her dryer and helped move things to washer and dryer and such.

Anyways, it was a fantastic party, one of the best parties I've ever been to. It was absolutely amazing. Thanks to everyone, especially parmonster!

Picture 365 time!
November 6, 2009

From Pic-A-Day 365

Did hair dyeing tonight. I also bought a bit more dye. As of right now... this is my dye collection. Every bottle in the front row is a unique color.

November 7, 2009

From Pic-A-Day 365

Games are in full swing! There are 4 games going on here, and I'm actually playing two of them