The End of an Era. (three and four nights in a row)

[jchrisobrien]

There is no way possible that I could have asked for a better time this weekend. This Sunday the last official Cookout at La Casa de Sangria played itself out in a epicurean revelry the likes of which I have never seen before. The food was varied and excellent, and overflowed our kitchen table. Sangria both white and red poured forth in a deluge, eagerly consumed, washing down caffeine burgers and curry burgers and lobster and corn and garlic potatoes. There were sweets, there were slurpies, there were bananas engulfed but not eaten. The cacophony of voices swelled and rose and didn't abate until the wee hours of the cool spring night. So many old faces came from all around. They came from Salem, and Sutton, and Somerville, and San Francisco. They even came from places that didn't start with S, like Cambridge and Jamaica Plains. Friends from mailing lists and livejournals and gaming groups mixed and mingled and didn't separate like oil and water. And after today, I can with certainly that oil and water don't mix. Other things, however, mix very nicely. Very nicely indeed.

The day after left a mountain of glass and plastic, bags upon bags of trash, and Polaroid pictures in varying levels of blurriness and content. I don't think I've ever had an event that was filled with so much good will, and with so little bad news. You are all responsible for this event coming to pass. I raise the last glass of sangria to all of you who were a part of this little milestone. By the time July rolls around, I'll be in my new apartment, and I think another cookout will be required to initiate the new abode. Hope to see you all then!

Comments

yes!

[cassel.livejournal.com]

This summer requires many more picnics hosted by the Master of Sangrias!

[mvoid.livejournal.com]

so where will this new place be?

[mvoid.livejournal.com]

So the missing piece of information: who will your housemate be?
I'm outta the loop!

[silas7.livejournal.com]

That would be Tegin.
I've only mentioned it here and there in passing, but will be filling the rest of the world in soon enough.

We should still have plenty of space in the new house for a gaming table. ;)

[mvoid.livejournal.com]

super cool!
room for the gaming table is indeed key... maybe now we'll have more luck dragging mrzero in on 40k games!!!

boys and their toys

[alonewiththemoon]

I have this mental image of the two of you ringing the doorbell and asking if mrzero can come out and play ;-)

Re: boys and their toys

[silas7.livejournal.com]

Or Atalanta coming home and finding the apartment empty. She puts her ear to the floor and hears the clatter of dice, then comes and knocks on our door... :)

Tegin already said she wants to learn how to play!

[silas7.livejournal.com]

The temptation will be hard to resist, that's for sure!

[atalanta.livejournal.com]

I doubt that :P

[rote.livejournal.com]

"A sweater is a garment worn by a child when their mother feels chilly."

[silas7.livejournal.com]

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