Absolutely. The first thing my boss said when I told him there was no way I could work this weekend, was "Why?, Going to a Star Trek Convention?" I said, "No, even better! A computer LAN party! I get to pack up all my equipment and go to a hotel to set it all up again, and play games with the same people I play css with over the internet."
I think the point where I started mentioning the numbers of people regestered and that "Corsair, and Muskin RAM were sponsoring us" was the point where he was like "ummm, who are they?" lol
My wife thinks it's cool, but then again, she's a gamer, currently completely addicted to SWG, so she understands the whole gamer mentality. My brother was way more confused when I told him I couldn't play softball. I didn't even bother to give him the detailed explanation, as I think the last computer games he played were on a 80286, although he does play some console games now and then.
ummm, yeah, most people think I'm uber geek for this.