Can Programmers Party?

Are programmers too geeky and anti-social to party? That's a question that I had to ask myself as I hosted some of my co-workers at a party at my duplex. I think about 12 people got invited. Three would be a large number for a true introverted programmer, so this was.... huge. I like my duplex as a single person dwelling. As party central - well, it might need some work. Mainly because it gets a little cramped. Plus I'm terribly self-conscious about... well, everything. So I worried over appearances, food, etc.... Forgetting that this was a game night, and to get out all the games. I'm hoping people had fun - hard to tell with so many different people and personalities. Pretty much all techies (read geeks). To our credit, we didn't talk about work hardly at all. Unusual for us to not get together and just gripe about stuff. Nice to see we had other things to do and talk about.

I haven't played poker in years. That was fun. 5 card draw, 7 card draw, Texas Hold em.... I need to brush up on that. The game of trivial pursuit that ran until 1 am was better. Genus IV edition? Way too hard for people who'd been drinking. I never really get why you play getting wedges at the end spots only. Makes the game waaaay too long, but it was still a lot of fun. New catch phrases for people- "That didn't sound right".

I gotta have a better variety of food next time I think. There was chips and dip and about 20 different kinds of popcorn. I was getting sick off too much popcorn myself.

So have I answered the question as to whether programmers can party? Nah.