About the time they showed up, some other odd things began happening as well. First the Phantom Resident showed up... and for some reason, the delivery guy, Brian, stuck around, which was fine as he was funny as hell. Phil also dropped by to join the party.

In the beginning it looked sorta like this:
    
Of course this wouldn't last long....

At this point we were all still fairly capable of clear thought and unimpaired decisions... but as the all-important time drew near, most of us were well on our way to rectifying that particular problem.

And in fact, at this point some of us would inevitably fail our sobriety tests (so would end up sleeping on the floor). Some of us would also not like to be photographed as this could be used as incriminating evidence later. (These photos would later be referred to as Exhibits A and B.)

Of course this didn't stop some people...

You can sort of see Kenshin with the Magical Blender. As he wasn't drinking, he was voted bartender for the night and was busy whipping up daquiris at this point. To our pleasant surprise, he is quite good and we went through a number of pitchers of strawberry daquiris before we ran out of strawberries... (yeah we were making them from scratch).

(Unfortunately, due to my inability to figure out how to get the pictures off the digitial camera in my (then) current state of mind, we missed some great pictures later that night... but maybe that's for the best.)

Well the next morning (okay... well, afternoon, almost evening) the cleanup began. Not really too bad, as we weren't really out to get completely bombed. The kitchen table showed a few of our kills. Most of us at Greenwood are not serious beer drinkers, but we have a thing for Sapporo... Brian didn't think all to highly of it.

Here's me at the computer, showing the others exactly what they were doing the night before. The beginnings of the web page were being outlined at this point.

Here we see Brian being thoroughly pleased with himself. (He wouldn't be feeling so good after his team began getting slaughtered in a bowl game.) But 1998 is the year of the tiger, so lookout world, Brian and Mehve are on the warpath and have destiny on our side! Matt and Heather weren't so perky, but they put on a great face for the camera, eh?

The living room survived remarkable well. Amazingly we found most of the suction cup darts for the gun that you can see on the sofa. This is really surprising cause we usually never find them again.

Oddly enough, we had a number of unusual visitors that night. One was the demon hippo. This adorable critter showed up and was well-cuddled by lots of people. He's just too cute. (My gods...it's Mehve! B-b-but... he never shows up in the pictures! Well now you know why... photogenic I ain't.) Meg adopted the cute lil' guy and the lucky demon went home with her.

We also had a visit from Miyuki and Natsumi from You're Under Arrest! It was truly amazing... we woke up... and there they were! After we had woken up some more we realized it was just Meg and Heather... but you gotta admit, we had a right to be confused.

    

(This was a totally candid shot... really!     We swear!         I mean, who would notice us taking this picture?!)

Well, that was our New Year's party in a nutshell. It was a real laugh and we at Greenwood would not mind it becoming a tradition. I guess we'll see next year?