Every year they do an all-night charity run in downtown Salt Lake City called "Relay for Life;" you set up camps in the Gallivan center, walk around in circles, and gain empathy for cancer patients by suffering through the abysmal entertainment. Mustard and I have done it the past two years, but no matter how often we walk around that track we can't seem to find a cure for cancer. I think the event organizers are hiding it a little too well.
What we have found, however, is fun--we take a barbecue, drinks, and a crapload of games, and we stay up all night playing and walking. It's a blast, and it's for a good cause, and this year we want to turn it into a full-blown TWG nerdfest.
The actual charity portion is a little odd--Mustard's company makes a very large donation to cancer research, and we all go walk around the block all night. The connection between these two factors is tenuous at best, since there's always supposed to be at least one person walking, but the donation was made without regard to this; it's not a pledge, the way most charity runs are, where someone promises to pay if you promise to run a certain distance or time. So mostly I think we're walking for moral support, or to make a good news story. Whatever. Last year we didn't walk at all, because we got into a heavy game of Monsters Menace America.
Mustard's company provides a lot of food, including bratwurst and a grill, but if we get a lot of people I think it would be nice to bring some of our own. Very few people from his office are participating at all this year,so we essentially have it all to ourselves (plus, of course, several hundred other people from other companies, but they have their own grills and tables).
Our last nerdfest had more than twenty people playing five or six games at once, and I'd like to see as many of you (and more) come out to this event. It starts on the evening of Friday, June 16, and ends the next morning--you can come whenever, stay as long as you want, and leave whenever. Let this be the official planning thread, and let's do this thing.
