A Good Old Day Revisited

Last night something extraordinary happened. Our one & only moon was in an interesting house & Uranus must have been aligned with Saturn, or some other sister planet. We may have spent some significant time in a wormhole, one can never be sure. I'm no astrophysicist, so I have no idea what factors coincided last night, allowing us to collectively go back in time. I just know that we were operating a little bit over the rainbow & my mind is trying to find a reason for certain events.

I am not sure what the date was or the month where we landed in the past, because I spent at least 2/3 of the evening in bewilderment that this was actually happening. I was watching a full-blown chronological regression & everyone was just chattering through it. Several hours later, as I watched the sun rise, I calculated that we traveled back approximately two years, to the year 'o5. The memories were wonderful, as I watched us as our former selves....staying up late on a Friday night. Everyone was trying to avoid eye contact with Richard, knowing that one little slip of the tongue could launch him into an instant pm tirade about cheating. Mindi was sickish, but the illness made her hilarious. No one wanted to get into their golf carts & go home, so the Chilly Philly Vamp kept hosting late games. We had a newbie playing & some recentbies.....new growth in our community instead of rotting vines. We often wish for the "good old days" of Synergy & last night, for a couple of hours, we revisited one of those days. It was fabulous.

The memories were great, but they were also bittersweet. The events I was watching just preceded the Barnyard Epidemic of '05. What made me happiest, the vision 2 years ago of that sassy moobawk & her flailing udders once again working the room, also made me saddest because it reminded me that the symptoms would soon overtake our league & ravage our members. Please stop during your days & say a silent prayer for our fallen brothers & sisters, crowing, chirping & quacking out there in cyberspace. And remember: there, but for the grace of good sense, go ye.

I wish I could have just lost my somber thoughts & enjoyed the dance in the past, as many did last night. It did happen, right? I'm not entirely certain that I didn't make the whole thing up. There were 10 players in the Comp Room around midnight? People not only didn't have to be coaxed into signing up for the midnight game, they demanded another after that? And (please tell me this is true) Cait was actually chatting, playing & mooing in the room last night? Did you see all of that too?

I hope it happens again.