Not much to report today so please have a dozen pictures of the Lightning Flippers launch party for the John Wick pinball game and also a surprise party ... I mean, it was a surprise to us, not to the party the party was for.
So the party, surprise, blocked us off from using our normal location, the big table upstairs. So we had to use one of the small tables downstairs, and we realized we could tape one of the prizes, the game translite, to the wall where it was shown off better than just being flat on a table. I have never remembered this since.
And here's the tiny table holding the Pinball Box, the prize box, the table on which all records are kept, some hand sanitizers, and my Diet Coke (the mason jar on the triangle napkin). This substitute worked ... okay, really.
Here's some of the lineup of games as they were arranged at the time, proving we had a John Wick. Still do, although the Jaws has moved away from right next to it.
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bunnyhugger playing what I believe would be a killer game of James Bond 007, a game I like a lot and that she doesn't because every time she uses it in a tournament someone has a 30-minute game running up the better part of a billion points.
And up there, now, is the party taking up the space that we'd otherwise have set up on. The John Wick game is by the way downstairs so this did force us to set up headquarters at a place closer to the game being launched.
I stepped outside a moment to look at the road reconstruction. They've been doing a major project reconstructing the road and had just gotten to tearing up the street in front of the bar.
A mile or more of the street was like this, every tree cut down and the road torn up, sometimes revealing ancient streetcar tracks. (None here, at least when I was there.)
Back to the tournament which is for some reason back on James Bond. Maybe never left; games can run a while.
Entering results. LE has a comment or is just reporting who on. Off on the right is a causal shot of ERR, who shocked us all by dying earlier this year.
So the party was a birthday party for HMZ, one of the Lansing League originals and a friend we haven't seen in forever. Here's what they had set up on the big table, including a Christmas plate he'd made in the mid-80s, wristbands, a big bowl of quarters for his party to play pinball, and peapods.
And an array of photos of HMZ from his first fifty years. Now, nobody use these barely visible pictures of pictures to do anything creepy or weird, okay?
And the sign inviting people to celebrating a half-century of HMZ.
Trivia: The first woman to make two spaceflights was Svetlana Savitskaya, who had become the second woman in space in 1982, and who flew again in 1984 becoming the first woman to make a spacewalk. Source: NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection: Redefining the Right Stuff, David Shayler, Colin Burgess. This was three months before Kathy Sullivan became the first United States woman to make a spacewalk.
Currently Reading: The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts, Silvia Ferrara.
