Wednesday night, I am going to get in my car, pick up some family, and we are all going to drive up to our folks' house for the weekend. We are going to spend some time talking about the food because it's there in front of us, and we're certainly going to do a lot of the catching up that happens anytime perfunctory conversation fills the gaps in general dialogue. It's what you do. But almost inevitably, conversation topics will arise that make a lot of those present very uncomfortable, and that's when I'll be searching each and every moment for vestiges of a new thread of potential dialogue in order to relieve the excruciating tension that most of those present are feeling.
Game 22 Afterwords: Well, That Happened
