Hope you all had a great time, folks.
Blatham was kind enough to invite me but, alas, Easter week works here in a way similar to thanksgiving in the US. High prices, family priorities (yesterday it took us 3+ hours to make a 100 mile trip back to the city, and we came in early).
Now I'm anxious to see the pix.
Blatham
Blatham, we've gotten some SF gathering reports back on this thread:
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22532&start=60
BBB
fbaezer, Yeah, it would have been nice to have met you in San Frnacisco. Maybe when A2K has a venue where more people can afford to attend, I'll try to also attend to meet some of you that weren't able to attend the SF Gathering.
I am unable to upload pictures from here. Will try a workaround.
Blatham, you might have to post them to another site like Raven's Realm first, I can't remember, haven't done it in a while. That or little K's site.
CI can probably help...
We should probably load them at some point, if not now, into the gallery so they don't get lost in threadlam.
I say all this when I have to fix my scanner myself..
we're workin on it folks, pix as soon as we can get it done.
CI - other people -
I have been eagerly following this thread, just haven't posted much. Too busy enjoying y'all (that's Texan for - ah, you get the drift).
Getting weak with hunger waiting for the pix ...
we have technical difficulty
please stand by
hehehehehe
that's very Boris and Natasha sounding
not sure where to post this, so I've posted in on both threads:
I miss everybody, now that I'm home. The fun of seeing friends and enjoying them as I do is also a loss when it's over.
I got there a day early, since I had to leave on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. c.i. and I had a delicious dinner (maybe the best dinner of the weekend for me.) They had beautiful photos of Japan. And interesting stories to tell about their trip there. Mrs. c.i. is lovely and gracious and, I must say, brave to put up with the rest of us for the entire weekend.
On Friday I started out for Haight Street and somehow ended up at Fisherman's Wharf instead.......this was caused by getting on the right bus, going the wrong way. Oh well. After walking along for a while, I found the sea lions. Very entertaining. The next day, after breakfast at Sinbad's on the Wharf, some of us returned to see the little darlings. Their interaction was fascinating. Lots of aggression and competition in the animal kingdom. Diane, Dys and Blatham were very impressed, I could tell. They're all a bunch of socialists........unwilling to admit to the natural order of animals......well, I guess that's going a bit too far, although I wonder if they agree with me. But they didn't seem to appreciate all the fighting for the prime spot and the women like I did. I do love a bit of aggression in it's proper place. But it was cold in the unsunny spot we had for observation and the wind was blowing. It was a great morning.
At lunch we had a chance to talk some more. Old friends I'd met before (Mr. and Mrs. PDid and Diane and Dys and jjorge) and old friends I hadn't yet met were good to see. Mrs. PDid is an animated sort and full of wisdom about the world. And fun, very fun and funny. PDid himself is as you would expect, no surprises there.
His t-shirts were a real pleasure, and they didn't even get us in trouble in SF. The first one said something intellectual like, "Bush Sucks" and the second one said an equally edifying thing like, "Bush Sucks." No, the second one said another thing and the picture of Bush was lovely, but I don't remember what it said. It didn't matter, however because whatever it said, it carried the same message as the first. And on the third day, we had the Sopranos.
Osso, as we've already said, had some lovely photos of her gallery and paintings. I was very impressed. And she had a yellow green jacket that I was plotting to steal, but didn't get the chance. It's funny how much seeing our a2k friends improves our understanding of who they are. And Osso had a fantastic room in a marvelous hotel. I'll let someone else describe the bar. Lights like mobiles from the Guggenheim.........oh, I said I'd let someone else describe...
jjorge is my old friend from a Boston gathering last June........it was very good to see him again. But he had a bit of trouble keeping up with us. Actually, I must confess, we all had a bit of wine to drink at the meal with the tangerine sorbet and somehow or another, jjorge got left behind when he went to the restroom. He didn't deserve to be left and we all felt terrible about it. I didn't get a chance to tell him I was sorry........so I'll do it now. Kiss kiss, jjorge, I wish it hadn't happened. It says nothing at all about how much we love you. And I noticed that it didn't seem to ruin your fun much.
And georgeob didn't show. I was very disappointed, as I believe we all were.
On Sunday, I had to leave early and was very sad to do so. But I'll remember the week end fondly and look forward to the next one.
Here's to friends. Some of my best are from a2k.
Nice to read, sorry to miss it.
I have been in SF only once in my life, and that was in 1977. I will definitely go again some day, but this time did not suit the McTags, I'm sorry to say.
Just this morning Gautam intimated another London meet, which I can drive to in 4 hours, so will work on that.
Best regards to all, and am also looking forward to the photographs,
McTag
I posted several pics in the "Gallery," but didn't know how to start a new album called "San Francisco Gathering." I didn't see any of the pics this morning in any album. Will try again later this afternoon after I return from grand jury duty. c.i.
I think you have to let a moderator or Craven know if you want to start a separate new gallery for gatherings.
ok sooner or later the truth will out,
Osso is an artsy-fartsy type with taste, I hate that.
Blatham couldn't put 3 words together to form a simple sentence.
C.I. is so damn polite and nice to everyone, he makes me barf.
PDid is from Houston Texas and LIKES IT!!!!
JJorge is a New England Liberal who actually listens to more than one side of an issue, gag me with a spoon.
Mrs PDid is an obsessive-compulsive anal-retentive airport junkie going Jones on scheduled departure-arrival times.
Lola is a brazen hussie.
Diane thinks the Porsche has only one cruise-control speed (200 k.p.h.)
Mrs C.I. (not unlike Dys) is the shy quite type with many redeeming features out of context with these hogs at the trough of gluttony.
there are no pics to post as no one had the brains to bring film and their analog minds fail to comprehend digital.
I had a pretty good time in spite of the company.
I've anxiously been awaiting pictures, but only 1/4 of each picture shows up on my screen at the link above. Is anybody else having trouble accessing the pictures? Or is it my computer?
Is and was okay here, Raggedyaggie.
