Trivia

Yet again, our band of trivia goers (tonight, it was David, Mike D., Steve, and Julie, our new Community Director in the office) once again dove into the breach, and came up victorious. We ended the game in first place, so we take home the $50 gift certificate, which we use in the moment to pay for the food we got while out at trivia.

We tip well though, since we don't spend real money on the food. We know where our bread is buttered, and we want the staff there to like us...

Granted, we don't win all the time, but we tend to do well.

The way the game works is like this. There are five rounds, and four questions in each round. The first three questions, you answer, and you assign a point value to your answer. The value is either 5 points, 3 points, or 1 point, based on how confident you are of the answer. The team can only use each point value once. You can't put 5 points for each answer. So, the answer you are least sure of, you should put 1 point on that question, and 5 points on the one you are most sure of.

The 4th question is always worth 7 points, question number bonus. So, with 16 points in 5 rounds, the max number of points for the game is 80.

Tonight, we scored 70. Good, but not our best.

The categories are usually TV, Movies, Music, Sports, and then either a double of one of the used categories (another Movie, TV, etc), or sometimes a different one. Tonight's 5th category was "Games."

So, that's how we usually spend our Thursday evenings, after work... Now, I have to digest Houlihan's bar food... That'll take awhile!

Paul McCartney

You know, I might be arriving a bit late to this party, but for the first time I have seen Sir Paul McCartney live in concert.

And, I have to say, I think this chap may have a decent career in music coming up!

I went to see Paul play with a rocking teenage combo at the new Shea Stadium back in July, now called Citi Field, or some such non-descript name. I think that people will still call it Shea, just like the PNC Bank Arts Center is still the Garden State Arts Center for those in the know...

Paul played a great selection of music, and as I've told some people in person, he truly brought "The Rock" to this show. Some of Paul's music could be a bit soft at times, but at this show, it was all good high energy rock, one after another. Even the acoustic bit of the show, had a power to it that worked for songs like Yesterday and others.

Overall, for this Beatle fan, a great show! I do need to get some of McCartney's solo albums now, any recommendations?

And, here's a video of "Jet," the second song of the night. Enjoy!