Interesting discussion on this topic over in Marty's blog. Prolly a bunch of other places too, but the one I've been watching is there.

We took each and every one of those extra cards home, so with the exception of a couple of people who had reasonable excuses (like living in another state, or more than 2 counties away), your nametag will forever live on our wall of shame!

I started the evening with two rides and chores that needed to be done. I told one ride to head on to the party so he wouldnt have to wait on me, and then a while later the other ride called to cancel. I tried to get ahold of the first ride, but you guys had the music way too loud and he never heard his phone. By this time I was already gussied up and ready to go, and, determined, I dug for change for transit and came up with more than enough--in all the wrong bills and no way to break them.

At this point hours had passed, it was getting close to 10, and transit would take me another hour, plus walking through the streets at night in party wear. I just took it as a sign from the powers-of-chaos-that-be and packed it in. Heroic efforts were made, though.

Next party.

I wanted to make it out there and was really looking forward to meeting up with everyone. Work got the best of me so I went home and crashed.

I'll make it next time for sure!

<Ok there were more then 5, but I am referring to the 5 that did not show up.>

Testy, aren't we? Were you at Chicken John's party for Tribe? I was there.

But hey, that's the difference between real life and virtual life. A client phoned me for some tech support. Am I going to pass up money? In the real world had I been invited to a party by friends, I'd have passed up the customer or tried to reschedule. But this is the virtual world and Tribe is a business. A business was throwing a party. My customer comes first in that case.