What’s a GAUGE?
One of the things we do every year is get together for about a week and do nothing but play video games, watch TV and drink some adult beverages. Why?
Because it’s fun.
But we also do it as a way to stay in touch. To break up the monotony of “regular” life. And because its something none of us get to do on a regular basis. Remember, our lives are busy (as is yours). But we like making time for our passions. And gaming is one of those passions.
Of course we’re never satisfied with something until we name it. So being the clever people we are, we came up with an acronym: GAUGE.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:35 pm
[…] As we explained in a brief introduction, The Save Spot came about as a fun way for three college roommates to keep in touch and find time for gaming in our busy lives. It’s been years since our shared experience at Gettysburg College, a small school in Pennsylvania, and we now live far apart – one of us in the East, one in the Midwest, and one on the West coast of the US. Remarkably, we’ve kept in touch over the intervening years and had a lot of fun in the process. Recently, we’ve made it a priority to get together for an extended weekend once or twice a year for a concentrated dose of video games, movies, great food, and adult beverages. As this extended-weekend get-together became a tradition, we gave it a name – GAUGE. […]