Pan's Eye View of CGE2K7:
A meeting of some of DP's Greatest: Sothy, Flack and Ubikuberalles.
Longest shot I could get of the wall of classic cab goodness. That's my son, Alex, on the far right. This shot is probably going to become my new wallpaper at work.
Not being fiscally capable, peer-burdened or otherwise compelled to shell out hundreds of dollars on the hobby, Alex and Mezrabad's son, Ben (both veterans of OVGE2006) realized what CGE was really all about - pure love of playing videogames - and they ran with it (or better yet, sat down and played) for most of the next two days.
My brother Willy (DP member Dirk's Bones) and myself on the way in to see our favorite band on Saturday night. It wouldn't have felt like a real Rush concert without him alongside me in the row of seats
Good old Sothy. He's the real deal. Here he is co-opting Fighter17's custom DP badge since Fighter didn't have the testicular fortitude to wear it himself. In the Marines we had a colloquialism used to refer to challenging someone's manhood: "Pulling your punk card". Sothy did this - literally - to Fighter17 at CGE. Nice work, Soth.
Walter Day - Twin Galaxies' head honcho - congratulating me on my run to get a record on Missile Command. I took 4th place. I might have gotten a higher score, but some other folks were hogging the 80's living room (where I really wanted to play), so I had to settle for the 2600 on the back wall which unfortunately was attached to a pair of 7800 controllers. 215,000 points and change scored on a "Painstick". Oww...but I still made the grade.
My princess was in another castle! Really. Mrs. Pan went over to the Mirage to swim, so Alex and I had to walk over to the Hilton post-CGE to catch the monorail. We decided to pop into the Star Trek bar for a spell. You see how well that went. Whod've thunk that Gorns can be placated with Diet Dr. Pepper? Alex is such a clever little Hobbit.
Game Over. Out of Quarters and Continues. The Pantechniclan poses for the Obligatory Mirage Dome Garden Photo and heads back to Abq.
Another great year. Hope to do it again soon!
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