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before dinner: practiced the evening's two songs, mike on acoustic, me on the strat; met my new friend, spike, from last week and we visited our friends in out of the cold who are in 'the dungeon' tonight since alpha is in the gym -- the dungeon is cozier and warmer; and talked with shell for a bit who helped with ootc supper.

gathering and dinner: met some new people and some familiar faces, including rumblyvoice and his wife, whom i'll call miami, and huck finn's mum and dad, who i'll call ma finn and pa finn (inventing aliases on public blogs is such fun!). at the dinner table sat between j-brit and jordana, spike next to her, and across the table from rumblyvoice and miami.

the singing was strong, mike's a good leader, and those present responded enthusiastically. mike wisely chose a call and response song to start, 'you're worthy of my praise' followed by the upbeat 'holy is the lord.'

i saw the first video last year with scotsman and adrian. it's still fresh and funny and engaging. not a bad start.