A Cocktail Party

Gifts received:
-a copy of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon
-two bottles of wine
-Pakistani cigarettes

Alcohol consumed:
-one and a half bottles of whiskey
-one and a half bottles of wine
-one bottle of rum
-one bottle of champagne
-half a bottle of vodka

Number of people I was expecting: six
Number of people in attendance: twelve
Number of people passed out in my living room at the end of the night: one
Number of times I've bitched about NATO with a Bosniak, a neocon, and a veteran of the War in Afghanistan on my fire escape: once