Afterparty

Once things settled down, we got neat little Gearbox gift bags and headed back down to the parking lot. On the way out I commented to Randy that I thought that he had the coolest office ever (as mentioned in the "Gearbox Offices" section!), but I'm sure that my inability to articulate the appreciation from the point of view of a fellow collector combined with my questionable speech pattern only confused him and made him think "this kid's an absolute cock sucker".

Everyone mustered down by the parking lot and about half of us went next door to Zenna, a Thai/Japanese fusion restaurant. Dognose, socksta, and packav knew the most about the good asian food so I just followed their lead and ordered whatever they said was good. Ninjase had to bail a little early and EricZBA addictively refreshed the dognose thread on the shack (Socksta called him out on it!).

The topics rapidly changed from Duke Nukem to the Shack to Halo to Socksta to Dognose to Eric on the Shack back to Duke and all over the place until somehow Dognose started talking about those god damn Saw movies again. Suddenly, in the middle of this nice quiet asian food joint, Dognose is there enthusiastically discussing how he can't stand being touched between the middle and ring finger because in one of the saw movies a guy gets his hand cut there in an extremely graphic fashion and it's all sorts of fucked up. His description alone made me a bit queasy, but the real money shot was when we looked around and realized that everyone in the restaurant was looking at our table.

That was our cue to leave.

We parted ways and I began the long ass drive home. It was pretty much the best day of my life.