Ex-coworker and friend, Amy. Self-portrait with my camera at Beale St. Bar and Grill, San Francisco.

Those blue consoles on the next table are for trivia games played on a national (+Canada) network of bars. Basically a competition between bars to score the highest. We had some seriously smart cookies at Beale St. and we did pretty well. We won at least once in my recall.

The idea was to get as many people to come, log on on as many consoles possible and score the most amount of answers right, so if someone knew an answer, he or she would call it out along with a certainty rating so that everyone could enter the correct answer or a best guess depending on the degree of doubt or disagreement.

I was the resident expert on rock music, music terms and astronomy trivia. Even when someone else answered a rock question first, if it was obscure they'd give me a quick glance to confirm or veto. Usually confirm, barflies know rock music.