Casino Night

Once the Capitol Steps performance was over, I sidled over to Lloyd Houe for my first Casino Night in 8 years.

I played some craps and Texas Hold 'Em and broke my tradition of 4 years of bankruptcy (only three of those count because I made one final ridiculous bet in year four to uphold the tradition) by actually finishing with more "money" when I started, which I proceeded to leave behind when I flew the coop (because I didn't care about any of the prizes).

I know a few of the current Lloydies (including Alex Sheive, but also people from the current era), although one or two of them weren't there and I only actually talked to one of the ones I know. I do recognize others from walking around campus, though I've never actually met them. A couple alums/exes were them---including Lemming, (Mike)^2, and Dave Antonio. I didn't recognize any of the older people (presumably faculty and their significant others) that I saw, but I imagine some of the names of the ones there would be familiar to me.

The coolest part was the jazz band (of which Dave Antonio is a part) playing in the background. They were very, very good. I expected something good, but they seemed really top notch to me. Apparently, this is what Dave Antonio does as his main gig nowadays. I had some desserts, so I ended up giving myself a sort of reverse dinner last night.

Anyway, while it's obviously not the same as going when I was a student (and knew everybody and was surrounded by friends), but it was still cool. It would have been really cool if more of the local alums from my era showed up (though I obviously didn't expect it even though enough of us are local for this to happen) and if all of us went out after "gambling" to go and shoot the breeze for the first time in a long time.