Jolt Country

Did anyone cook anything interesting for Thanksgiving?

Flack wrote:Did anyone cook anything interesting for Thanksgiving?

I avoided cooking anything at all. I basically freeloaded off two gatherings. I was the "Duke Nukem 3D" and the gatherings were the Gathering of Developers.

What's this about you having a door prize for your fam's Thanksgiving? You gave a dude a 52" TV??!

Not really. I just said that to be a funny jerk.

Basically, I posted an open invite both on my website and Facebook and invited anyone and everyone to my house for Thanksgiving dessert. We really had no idea how many people were going to show up. I mean, it literally could have been hundreds of people. I tried to pitch it as a casual come-and-go event. It sounded like a fun thing to me (if someone else had done it, *I* would have gone!) but I guess most people are either (A) too tired to go have Thanksgiving desserts at someone else's house, (B) have other plans, or (C) just have no interest in coming to my house to eat sweets.

So ultimately, only one guy showed up (my friend Scott), so I thought it would be funny to lie and say I had a door prize and it was my new TV. THAT'LL SHOW 'EM.

Flack wrote:Basically, I posted an open invite both on my website and Facebook and invited anyone and everyone to my house for Thanksgiving dessert. [DELETED] I guess most people are either (A) too tired to go have Thanksgiving desserts at someone else's house, (B) have other plans, or (C) just have no interest in coming to my house to eat sweets.

I would have loved to come, but I went to my family over in Virginia for a combination Thanksgiving/Birthday celebration. (Ben would understand, this part of Maryland [University Park] is in Prince George's County, 4 miles from DC and only about 8 miles from Arlington, Virginia. He used to live about 15 miles from here over in Montgomery County if I remember correctly.) That puts me only, oh, about 1,500 miles from Oklahoma.

Just basically run Glenn Campbell's 1966 hit By the Time I get to Phoenix backwards starting in Washington, DC instead of what is probably Los Angeles and you basically get the same itinerary "by the time I make Oklahoma..."

Though someone once questioned how someone could have gotten as fast from the West Coast all the way to Phoenix in 1966 with the roads on the quality and capacity of Route 66 is a bit hard to believe. Jimmy Webb was probably smoking something when he wrote it, he did write Up, Up and Away...