I want to have people come to parties at my house — I really do. Last night’s had a better turnout than the previous one, but still nowhere near what I had hoped. I sent out email invitations to a large number of people. For this party I had 45 people respond with “no”, 10 with “yes”, and 6 with “maybe”. The rest never responded at all. So I was expecting a small turnout and planned accordingly. The final count of attendees was 6. We ended up spending much of the time playing Rock Band and just talking. That’s a far better way to spend an evening than sitting here alone, but I would have enjoyed a few more people. I like to think the ones who came enjoyed themselves.

I have the next one scheduled for June 20th. We shall see how that works. If I again have almost no one, I may have to just quit trying.