Things to do/improve on before the next party:

• Get more seating!  Standing around all day is tiring, and sitting on the floor is hardly desirable.
• Get a cooler!  A modest variety of beers and soda fills up my fridge, and that’s without a variety of food that’ll take up far more space.
• Cook!  I just had snacky things, and no actual real meal items, so those that were there for an extended period were certainly hungry.  Getting a grill certainly would help facillitate this.
• Get a recycling bin!  We do have recycling in VA, and having a visible place for people to toss their recyclables makes for easy sorting later.
• Setup a music playlist.  In general my reconstructed legal music collection is pretty consistent, but the occasional track(from musicals for example) breaks the flow.
• Be more aggressive about getting people to eat/drink.  I got a fair amount of stuff expecting people to feel free to partake in it, but it seems that many people are leery to potentially overstep their welcome and thus need a bit of prodding.