Jericho: All right - I'm slow!
I'm a total jerk, so I'll just come clean on all points.
There is this national deal for bloggists called Weblogger Meetup. I joined the Seattle version of this about three years ago, never went to a single meeting. The thing that makes it worse is that this thing is organized by my friend Anita, and since I don't get to see her very often, you'd think I'd use the Meetup as an excuse to see her. Yeah. Riiiight!
So, I looked at Anita's blog and saw that the East Side (Bellevue; east of Seattle) meeting was happening on Tuesday. Groovy, thought I, here is a chance for me to promote BlogBallyhoo to a group of rich Microsofties. (MS is in Redmond, also on the east side, lots of bloggists at MS.) I even managed to have some work to do at the Bellevue office, so I could arrive WAY early to the meeting. Excellent, super, the first time I go to the event my friend is organizing, I go because of ulterior motives. Sheesh!
So, I go, I wait, I look around the shopping center where this is being hosted, I wait. Finally, meeting time approaches. I see Anita and greet her. She assumes I'm just there shopping. Nope, I'm here as a shill. Okay, I didn't say that, I just said I was there for the meeting. She points out Jack and tells me she'll be back with some food.
I finally get to meet Jack! I talked to him briefly once and not for several years since. See, Anita and I dated for a while. I mean, it's way ancient history, but I still think it can be tough on two guys. But, Jack was nothing but nice. He was playing with his Grandson and having a good time. Anita came back with food and then two other bloggists showed up. We had a great conversation, blogging was barely mentioned. Anita tells me that the Meetup in Seattle is a much larger group of folks. But, it was fun hanging out with new people and old friends.
So, what makes me a bigger jerk, then? Well, it took me far too many days to post this report, the others had their reports up way before me. And, worse, I'm a terrible shill. I didn't mention BlogBallyhoo once! *Sigh!*
Anyway, Anita's report is here. Tommy, an MS guy, has his report here. Alex is a neat and cool British, MS dude, he has a report here.
BTW, there is a Meetup for Bloggists in STL (Hint!) and 22 other cities.
There is this national deal for bloggists called Weblogger Meetup. I joined the Seattle version of this about three years ago, never went to a single meeting. The thing that makes it worse is that this thing is organized by my friend Anita, and since I don't get to see her very often, you'd think I'd use the Meetup as an excuse to see her. Yeah. Riiiight!
So, I looked at Anita's blog and saw that the East Side (Bellevue; east of Seattle) meeting was happening on Tuesday. Groovy, thought I, here is a chance for me to promote BlogBallyhoo to a group of rich Microsofties. (MS is in Redmond, also on the east side, lots of bloggists at MS.) I even managed to have some work to do at the Bellevue office, so I could arrive WAY early to the meeting. Excellent, super, the first time I go to the event my friend is organizing, I go because of ulterior motives. Sheesh!
So, I go, I wait, I look around the shopping center where this is being hosted, I wait. Finally, meeting time approaches. I see Anita and greet her. She assumes I'm just there shopping. Nope, I'm here as a shill. Okay, I didn't say that, I just said I was there for the meeting. She points out Jack and tells me she'll be back with some food.
I finally get to meet Jack! I talked to him briefly once and not for several years since. See, Anita and I dated for a while. I mean, it's way ancient history, but I still think it can be tough on two guys. But, Jack was nothing but nice. He was playing with his Grandson and having a good time. Anita came back with food and then two other bloggists showed up. We had a great conversation, blogging was barely mentioned. Anita tells me that the Meetup in Seattle is a much larger group of folks. But, it was fun hanging out with new people and old friends.
So, what makes me a bigger jerk, then? Well, it took me far too many days to post this report, the others had their reports up way before me. And, worse, I'm a terrible shill. I didn't mention BlogBallyhoo once! *Sigh!*
Anyway, Anita's report is here. Tommy, an MS guy, has his report here. Alex is a neat and cool British, MS dude, he has a report here.
BTW, there is a Meetup for Bloggists in STL (Hint!) and 22 other cities.
posted by Jericho Brown at 10/07/2005 12:08:00 AM
12 Comments:
What? I need to meet more people who feel the need to write about their non-lines?
I don't even like myself. Why would I want to meet more of me?
Of course, if they serve food...
Just one comment, Jericho: Microsoft is in Redmond, not Richmond. I worked with a guy who lives in Seattle. He said before he came to work for Microsoft that he referred to the entire Eastside as Renton. So I guess you're not the only one....
And now I made a mistake: Redmond, not *Renton.* Not sure where Richmond came from.
It's okay, Tommy. Looks like Max meant to say "non-lives" above and he screwed that up, too.
To err is human, to do it on-line is blogging!
Ima go fix that right now ...
Its part of my new online exhibit, Max Dobberstein - The Art of Typos.
It would have been funner if that read, "Max Dobberstein - The Art of Tpyos".
So, are you ever going to tell the public about Minzy and Grendel, Honey?
Dammit, woman! Does the term "Top Secret" mean nothing to you?
Sigh. Put together a couple of small pics and I'll write something this weekend.
Um, top secret? Minzy and Grendel?
Did you finally get those implants??
Max, if you didn't want us to know, you could have deleted the comment. You must want us to know. You're busted, dude.
So, do tell!
Well,as the secret seems to be out...
Minzy is our new dog, who as we speak is trying to eat our Adi, our other dog. Grendel is the new RV. As far as I know its not trying to eat anything right now.
The RV is eating away my parent's money. So many repairs, so little budget!
Maybe if you gave the RV a nicer name it wouldn't be so angry.
It just seemed appropriate, giving it the name of an ancient monster. Laura's Dad digs it, so I think it shall stay.
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