Welcome to the Neighborhood

Tonight, we crashed a house warming party for a new neighbor. Well, actually he is Daniel and Mandy's new neighbor, but he's still pretty close to our house.

We met Lodge for the first time last year at the Lavin's Christmas party. All I remembered was that he played kickball and made a video about VMWare that won a contest. I wasn't sure to expect at his party that we were crashing, but it turned out to be awesome with a capital awesome.

There was some good food, some beer, and lots of interesting people. We ate. We watched a movie outside. And, we got to enjoy a concert by Ben and Lodge. Two of the best songs were Enchilada and On Purpose.

As great as the entertainment was, the people were even better. The Lavins and the Morrises were there, who we already knew, but I met several new people.

Here's a list of the new people I met:

• Allen Emory, who until recently was the president of the Triangle Mac Users Group. You can follow him on Twitter @LQQK


• Kaci and Katie of acroentertainment.com. It turns out that Kaci went to high scholl with my sister, Capri.


• Walden of engineeredpoetry.com.


• Jess, who is a specialist at the Apple Store at Crabtree Valley Mall. She doesn't have a blog and doesn't twitter, but you can be her friend on Facebook.


• Paul Miller of varietyartsblog.com.


• Brian of theweborganic.net. He is the star of the VMWare video. You can follow him on twitter @bmbouter.

It was a great night of networking.