{"id":416,"date":"2012-05-13T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/05\/13\/about-last-night\/"},"modified":"2012-05-13T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T21:33:00","slug":"about-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/05\/13\/about-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"About Last Night…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This photo from last night embodies many of the things I love about Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Seated, clockwise from left: Joe, @snarke<\/a>, @AubreyCello<\/a>, myself, @JadeE1024<\/a>, @FlameIsLove<\/a>, @DeeAnnSole<\/a>, @rmalena<\/a>, @brittamarie<\/a>, @ghalidrim<\/a>, and @mariafi<\/a>. Photo by Angela of @TheDoubleclicks<\/a>. (Not pictured: Ana, Rob, and Matt, who arrived later.)<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

We had all gathered at the Funhouse Lounge<\/a> to see The Unscriptables perform a Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i> improv show. I wasn’t sure how crowded the place might get (being listed on GeekPortland<\/a> is usually a huge nerd magnet), so I proposed we all meet at 5pm, when the venue opened, and enjoy happy hour while playing some games.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Photo by @ghalidrim<\/a>.<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

It’s not easy to find a game that can handle fifteen players, but Cards Against Humanity<\/a> worked well. It was sometimes hard to hear across our four-tables-pushed-together, especially over the lounge music–but the woman working the bar asked us for requests (since we were the only people there for quite a while), so at least we were talking over songs we mostly liked.*<\/p>\n\n\n
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@JadeE1024<\/a>‘s winning “haiku.”<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

After we finished our supergame, our nerd party split up into smaller groups. Some of the menfolk dove into Lords of Waterdeep<\/a>, DeeAnn and I introduced Aubrey to Zombie Dice<\/a> and Bananagrams<\/a>, and others just hung out and chatted. All enjoyed happy hour food and liquid refreshment.<\/p>\n

That would have been a great night right there. But then the Unscriptables<\/a> show started, and it did not disappoint. If you’re anywhere near Portland for the next two weeks, and you have ever liked TNG, go<\/b>. Closing night (May 26th, Memorial Day weekend) is the Borg episode, and if we weren’t so busy with WarTron<\/a> I’d totally be there.<\/p>\n\n\n
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@TheDoubleclicks<\/a> with “Troi” and “Riker.”<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I’ll be honest: When we moved to the Portland area in 2008, I was a bit apprehensive. I mean, we knew it was going to rain a lot (not to mention that first winter<\/a>–yikes!), we’d been swindled out of $15 during our very first visit years ago (Thanksgiving weekend, no less–what is wrong<\/i> with people?), and there were just a lot of unknowns.<\/p>\n

But now that we’ve been here almost four years, I can say without a doubt that I’m very happy in our new home. We’ve made many new friends, started new traditions, and we don’t plan on leaving any time soon. We love Portland!<\/p>\n

Even if you do run into the occasional creepy clown room.<\/p>\n\n\n
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SRSLY, WTF?<\/i> Photo by @ghalidrim<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

* It turns out that a Pandora station set to “Jonathan Coulton” plays a mostly decent mix of JoCo, TMBG, Weird Al Yankovic, Barenaked Ladies, and Cake, with a few random nuggets of Da Vinci’s Notebook and Garfunkel and Oates.<\/small><\/p>\n

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This photo from last night embodies many of the things I love about Portland, Oregon. Seated, clockwise from left: Joe, @snarke, @AubreyCello, myself, @JadeE1024, @FlameIsLove, @DeeAnnSole, @rmalena, @brittamarie, @ghalidrim, and @mariafi. Photo by Angela of @TheDoubleclicks. (Not pictured: Ana, Rob,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49,64,3,18,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doinitrite","category-geeky","category-overshare","category-pdx","category-startrek"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}