Midnight Madness Appreciation

Photos and video are up, my sleep cycle has been restored, and the house is nearly back in order. Thus, I have a moment to thank Snout and Drunken Spiders for providing us with a unique and challenging life experience that we'll never forget. Kudos to them for all their hard work, planning, time, and expense.

I only just met Curtis and DeeAnn at the Captain's Meeting and again at the wrapup party. It's kind of sad to see them leave already - was it something I said? - but I wish them best of luck in their future endeavors in Oregon.

As for The Smoking GNU, we had a blast with Larry on our team. It seemed within five minutes of picking him up that he had always been part of the team and always would be. He seemed to be able to put up with us, so hopefully we didn't scar him too much.

We were the ninth team to arrive at the Community Center, but I'm not sure that means anything, apart from the fact that we got to eat breakfast before eleven other teams. We were the last team to leave a few sites and got skipped over three and a half clues... to be fair, though, we were told two of those were compromised (Acorn ran several blocks to catch our van to let us know about one of those), one was automatic for nearly all teams once the first team solved it, and we had only just entered Pinball City when the message went out to go to Standford.

Overall, a good time, lots of good memories, and fun experiences to tell my family. Many thanks!