Matt took some photos of the party. "Medieval" lads and lasses served tasty treats and libations, the game was showing on all the walls, the music was loud and as they say, "had a nice beat" so we danced to it.

Well, some of us danced. Broos disappeared to schmooze. Matt followed someone into the VIP area and spent most of the night chatting with the celebrities. After some dancing, Glenn and Jake tried to brazen their way into the VIP area. Jake was spurned, but Glenn waltzed in...then took pity on me and Jake and led us downstairs to get our hands stamped so we too could pretend to be VIPs. There's a photo in Matt's collection of Glenn, me, Matt, Brande and Jake. The VIP area didn't seem any more VIP than the rest of the club, and eventually, I wandered back downstairs to dance some more, then wandered back to the hotel.

And now, the sad news. Recall that Dell sent a tech to replace my motherboard and memory? Since I was going to be gone anyway, I left the XPS at the office. The tech assured me verbally that it was fixed as we had no monitor to hook it up to after he finished the repairs. I figured he would have some sort of gizmo to hook it up to a regular PC monitor and left mine monitor at home...but he hadn't any gizmos to speak of.

Saturday, I stopped by the office to pick the XPS up and later that night hooked it up. Push power button; no response. Switch plug to different spot in the power strip; no response. Peer into its computery innards; no response. One and a half hours of phone call tech support with Dell; no response. So Tuesday (must be their day to tech), another tech will be going to visit my XPS with another motherboard, different memory AND a new power supply. This time, I will hopefully be able to take the day off and hold Mr. Dell Tech hostage until the damn thing works. Damn it! :)