Toronto, August 21-23: Anyone interested in meeting up?

Wouldn't that just have been a heart-stopper of a meet - Thomas and Izzie!

Yes, Thomas drank Timmy's coffee. I'm not sure what he thought of it. He liked timbits. We know that.

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soooooooooo, Thomas and I drove from Kingston to Toronto in two cars. We needed to drop brendalee off in the west end of Kingston Township on the way. hmmmm, how to set Thomas' GPS to brendalee's mother's address when brendalee doesn't know her mother's address (this is going somewhere) ... fussing .... fussing ... I have a brainwave - brendalee drives with Thomas since she knows how to get to her mother's house. I drive in my car since I know how to get there too.

I can see Thomas and brendalee in my rearview mirror, chatting, laughing, smiling, chatting, laughing, smiling ...

I pull my car forward and around at brendalee's mom's place. Thomas pulls up, parks. brendalee gets out of the car. Her glasses are steamed up.

Thomas has that effect.

They tried to tell me it had something to do with the air conditioning.

Thomas' twinkle can do that to a cougar

heh heh...

Have such the best time... please hug the Mensch from me and hugs to one and all in Canajun land. Love ya girl x

I'll hug everyone for you, if you'll hug everyone for me ... and then we have to work on hugging each other

hmmm, if we do six degrees ... I've hugged Roberta and Thomas and JoeNation ... and SheWolf has hugged Roberta and Thomas and JoeNation ... and you've hugged SheWolf ... it's not quite like a direct hug ... but we're getting closer!

wow - a crazy day and a half
met more A2kers
more A2kers met more A2kers
spun around on rides
saw Elvis Stojko perform
sat in the world's funniest beer tent
got a bit sunburned
am ready to rest just a bit
time to get ready to go back to work tomorrow
Thomas can update update update

So, like . . . i'm waling along East Gerrard Street, at the South Asia Festival, and this diminutive woman, whom i do not know and have never seen before, walks up to me and says: "So, you're set, right?" And i'm scrambling to think of an answer, and all that is going through my head is to wonder what kind of set-up, what kind of scam is this. Something in my expression told her that i didn't understand, even when she repeated the question, so she told me her name, and that she is Tai Chi. Then i realized that the question she had asked me was: "So, you're Set, right?" She had recognized Thomas, and somebody had told her that i am tall, so she correctly guessed who i am.

I found it much more amusing to think of it as some kind of flim-flam routine, though.

Gosh, Set, I thought you thought I was propositioning you

A great day! After bamboozling Set, I exchanged smiles with Joeblow when we noticed each other grooving to the Bollywood beat (without thinking anything other than "ah, another music lover". ) Meanwhile she's standing in front of the restaurant where we planned to meet, at exactly the same time we were to meet (d'oh!) It was great to finally meet ehBeth too. (She's a dynamo.) I'm afraid to rave too much about Thomas in case it goes to his head -- he really is sweet!

So yeah, a great day, good food, terrific company.

Well, i did wonder. But i was thinkin' "How would she know?"

That would be telling.

nuh uh - that was 15 minutes early - by the time I was on my way to re-find you 10 minutes early - you were on your way back from the New Haandi with joeblow.

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It was pretty dang cool to meet Tai Chi and the College Man. Kinda like Gidget and the Bachelor eh

Joeblow was as ultimate as she always is. Ultimate, no specific modifier.

A2K hugging was as successful as ever

Mary Alice = http://able2know.org/user/mab3803/

Things I learned:

Beth is indefatigable.

Thomas’s accent, which he says is strictly German, is melodious.

Set can sing.

Tai chi is as pleasant, down to earth and amusing as I thought. The College Guy, aside from being a lucky man, is a trooper!

Thanks all. It reminded me of the small town street festivals of my youth. I’d do it again in a minute, only next time I’d buy a sari. I was too busy chatting to properly examine the merchandise…except later, when we did examine the sweets sufficiently well to make a good selection. I liked them all! Alas, I was full of remorse that I didn’t bring home dinner.

The bollywood dances the day before would have been a riot, but I enjoyed the Bengali dances anyway, which I could view every time I crossed the road to indulge. The little ones must have been practicing for months to regale us with their moves.

I just browsed for pictures of the Ivy Lea Bridge. Found a couple of aerial shots that start to do it justice. It’s so lovely there. My shoulders start to lower just looking at them.

I just returned home safely, too tired to post anything of substance. Thank you, all of you, for this long weekend. I had a blast!

You should replace your avatar picture. I don't know when that was taken, but it doesn't look a thing like you, and it makes you look old and goofy . . .

substance! substance! substance!


It's good to see that you made it home, though I expected you to spend some time auditioning for a remake of The Farmer's Daughter ... mebbe not get home til Wednesday or Thursday.

brendalee dropped by after work. I think she was hoping you'd decided to stay on a bit longer

You, on the other hand, look just like your avatar!



As the picture shows, you're even friendlier in real life than in your avatar. It was a pleasure to meet you and massage your belly. I only wish your human was a little more generous with the cherry tomatoes, and her no-good boyfriend stopped playing computer games so much so you had more time for posting on A2K.