Wednesday April 16th- TIMA Casino Night Social

The TIMA Social was last Wednesday, the theme of this month’s meet and greet was a casino night and was located in a beautiful home/office in downtown Raleigh right next to the WRAL building. As I walked into this historic and beautiful home I couldn’t help but feel like I was in an episode of Scooby Doo, complete with bookcases full of really old books and statues with creepy staring eyes. After being accused of being a “riff raff” (jokingly) and cautioned not to touch anything I checked all the books in the bookcase for secret rotating trap door entrances… much to my disappointment they were actually books and not secret entrance levers to the pirate ghosts hideout, who actually turns out to be old man Livingston trying to scam the owners out of their amusement park…But I digress, Back to the Social, the set up was great, you were greeted at the door with 500 interactive dollars you could trade in for chips at any table, much like Vegas except it didn’t hurt as bad to lose Interactive Dollars. Every five hundred interactive dollars earned bought you a raffle ticket and an opportunity to win prizes with the grand prize being a Ipod Video… that I didn’t win… the event was well catered and the hoursdevors were excellent and well worth the admission… which was free… this was a great opportunity to mingle and network with local people in the interactive world. After losing all my fake money, drinking a few beers, and making some new interactive contacts I called it a night, and although I lost it all, I gained some new perspectives from local peers in the Raleigh interactive world.