In June of 2017  we went to Dallas to participate in event called Triviapalooza.

This event is where Buzztime players across the country to put faces behind the avatar pictures and handles.  This year we gathered in Arlington, a suburb of Dallas,  at a bar/restaurant called BoomerJacks near Cowboy stadium.

We flew into Love Field, the downtown airport.  Neither of us had been to the airport in at least 10 years for Brooke, probably 45 for me.  While most airports have turned into malls Love has turned into an airline museum.

There is room for that because only 3 airlines fly out of there now, Southwest, Delta, and Virgin America.  It used to be the hub for Braniff International Airlines.  It was a major player in the 60s and 70s.  My brother and I flew it a lot because my dad was a ticket agent.

We were living in Oklahoma City and we would always have to change planes in Dallas.  Back then the flights were on a massive analog board about 15 feet by 20 feet.  The info flipped into place like cards.

Nobody talks about a trip if everything went perfect.  It’s boring and they would be bragging about nothing.  We discovered that a screw had fallen out of my scooter.  This screw kept the seat from hitting the ground.  By the time we discovered this the Uber driver was gone.

We called the manufacturer to see if they could ship us a new one.  They could send us a seat assembly kit for around  $200.  This hit the customer rep as a bit excessive so she connected us with the maintenance department.  The girl gave us the specs for the screw.  We could get a bag of 2 for 3 bucks at the Home Depot that was in walking distance of the hotel.

If you clicked the BoomerJack’s link you might have noticed there are two in Arlington.  I didn’t think that Arlington was big enough to have to chain bar/restaurants that would accommodate a group of over 50 Buzztime trivia players.  I picked the wrong one.

One was near the University of Texas Arlington.  Their sports mascot is the Mavericks and their colors are close to the NBA team.  The one we wanted is VERY close to Texas Stadium.

This was interesting of Saturday because there was a major soccer game(USA vs Costa Rica) that night.  There all sorts of signs about no parking for the game but customers were coming into the bar to watch the game.

Now for the trivia action or inaction since basically we were all just sitting around eating, drinking, watching television and pressing buttons.  The competition for the top 20 spots on the local rankings was tight.  As I mentioned earlier there were around 50 players from across the nation.

A typical game is 15 questions worth 1000 points each with 4 possible answers.  Each game is 30 minutes long.  Every day a specially themed hour-long game is scheduled at 7:30 PM CST.   See  Buzztime‘s website  for what plays on what days.  Saturday is music trivia.

This music trivia game was going to concentrate on the boy band One Direction in the final 2 rounds.  Buzztime  had announced this but some players don’t check the website.  Others do and hit the Wikipedia.   I am in this group.

I was in the lead after 3 rounds.  No one was more surprised than I.  Luckily we had a One Direction fan from Houston.  She played under the handle BBB.  I followed her answers in the next two rounds and won the thing.

 

I’ve been working on this post off an on since June. To make a long post short I had a bad cold when we got home.