A Boston Gathering!

No, was there just for dinner - I stay on home on school nights

thursdays is always packed. tufts crowd?
you must've sat in the back room.
that's too bad about the music. dissapointing. i'll sit on my stool out front, sounds like it's a safer place to be.
where you kids going tomorrow?

We did sit in the back room - but for all my time spent at the Burren I've never seen a band quite like this, even on open mic night. I was amused at least.

Also wanted to mention, it was nice to meet jjorge! Drove all the way up from RI to spend some quality time with us and spent some of it chatting with the boy. Comments heard later - "I can't believe that he does that clinic work just 'because'! Tough job, the man's got to be out of his mind!" And that's from a former screw....

Hope to see you imbibing with us again jjorge!

:wink:

I am so sorry I didn't make it last night. By the time I finished up at work and got home to pack it was almost 8. I knew I wasn't going, but I did put make up on in a feeble attempt to get prepped to head out.

I am sorry! Its been so long since I hung out with you guys. AND to miss a BeeGees cover-band?!?! C'mon.

It, of course, sounded like a fun night. I am bummed to miss tomorrow too. Is it gospel brunch?

Enjoy it guys, and keep me in the loop. Its crappy wintertime and we need outings (fueled by alcohol) to keep us going!!

Hi folks!

I had a great time. You really made this old guy feel welcome.
I 'd come up for the brunch if I could but I'm going to be on the Cape
Saturday and Sunday.

Jes,
I'm really glad I met you but wish you could've stayed longer. I never got to deliver the plaudits and accolades you deserve for your and Craven's 'Gift' of A2K.

Hi Sugar,
it was great meeting you and 'The boy'. You and he make a terrific couple! Congrats again on your engagement.

PS HE is the one with the tough jobs: 'screw'? Juvenile Probation? phew!

Hi Marycat,
Delighted to meet you. Love that hat! I liked your friend. He's an interesting guy. Too bad your S.O. couldn't be there. I have my fingers crossed for him. Hope he gets that break soon.

Jerry,
Really nice to meet you. Wow! JW AND CIA both, that's some culinary resumé. Send food! (just kidding)
Wish we had had more time to talk.

Littlek
Nice to see your smiling face. You're prettier than your pictures


To the rest of our A2k friends,

I have just one thing to say about this group:

"Bright eyes and bright futures"

Aw jjorge, shucks! I don't really feel llike I had a lot of time to chat with you. Glad you had fun!

:-D Thanks!

Excellent party last night. Even if I did look like Casper in Jes's photo... We'll chalk it up to being too close to the flash.

Brunch tomorrow is show-up-12-or-1-or-so at Dick's Last Resort in the Back Bay, behind the Pru. I called and said 10 or 12 or so people would descend upon the place around noon or so, and the guy said no problem, the more the merrier, no reservation necessary, so I hope to see as many of you as possible!

Woohoo! I love buffet brunch. And Bloody Mary Bars.

Quinn, you'd better be healthy tomorrow morning!

10-12 people?

Jjorge's Oddysey North of The Rivah' -Part l

On Thursdays I drive up from Rogues Island to the 'Home Of The Brave' (aka Avon, MA) to take my sainted mutha shopping, do a few chores etc.
So it worked out perfectly to go to the 'Boston Gathering' on that day.

I left beautiful downtown Avon at 5:30 pm.
Thirty minutes later I got off the Xway by Fleet Center/North Station. So far so good.

I had left home in the a.m -no time to revisit the 'Boston Gathering' thread and be clear on directions or start time. No time to go to Mapquest and map it. ('I'll just wing it,' I had said to myself.)

Well, I KNOW Boston - Downtown, Back Bay, Southie, Dorchesta etc. and the South Shore is where I grew up. But Mutha always said: 'Don't go North of the Rivah!'(Harvard Sq. by subway doesn't count)

So, to me, that's like the dark side of the moon over there.
Anway, I SORTA knew where Somerville was, kinda squished between route one and Cambridge with one end bumping up against Medford.

Well, before I knew it I was going over the Longfellow Bridge and trusting my intuition. Pretty soon I found myself in Kendall.

Then my gut told me to follow Cambridge St.
Whaddya know! in a few minutes I'm in Harvard square!
So, My intuition and gut having failed me, I decided to followed a HUNCH.
I kinda doubled back but obliquely, angling somewhat Northeast...(at least it FELT like it was NE)
Then, halleluah I found myself on a street called Somerville St.

So I drove down Somerville St. and eventually came upon a 'Target'store. At that point, having listened to my intuition, my hunch and my gut, I decided to listen to my bladder -which was was SCREAMING.
After placating my bladder, I still wasn't ready to ask for directions, but I DID remember the Burren's street address: 247 Elm St.

With a map purchased in Target, I quickly found Elm St and ten minutes later I was parking near the Burren! Time: 7:15pm.

***********************************

To be continued in Part ll:

"One Bewildered Geezer, Lost in a Sea of Twenty and Thirty Somethings"

I like my Bloody Marys with a celery stick. Gotta have some nourishment..... c.i.

Heehee, jjorge! I didn't hear that saga! Sommerville is notorious for being a vortex of mis-direction. Davis square almost doesn't count. Glad you remembered the address.

See..the whole Somerville vortex rears its ugly head once more....its just a scary thing.
Feeling almost perky even
Ill be theah

Somerville Vortex...you said it!

Well A2k'ers...you've been spared.
It must have been divine intervention.
I typed out part ll of my narrative on notepad and
It got lost somewhere in that other vortex of cyberspace.
At about six w.p.m. -hunt and peck typing method - the thought of
re-doing it is exhausting. So you escape with only the highlights:

7:20 pm jjorge arrives at the Burren, walks around looking
bewildered.

7:25-
7-35 asks a couple of groups if they are A2k, discuss with
bartender, waitress, (shrugs but no help)

7:35-
7:55 Positioned at the bar, studying new arrivals and drinking

8:00 Notice guy in my line of vision staring back...smiling.

8:01- Ask bartender for pen and paper and cellophane tape.
8:10 Draw 3" tall sign: "A2K?" and attach to the front of my
Baseball cap, trying not to see my image in the bar
mirror.

8:10- Resisting urge to tell those around me "I'm NOT mentally
8:15 ill!" I explain to the guy standing next to me why I
have to embarrass myself thus.
"The beer helps." he says.

8:16- With my cap in place I walk through the Burren looking
around to left and right (telling myself that a little embar-
asment helps to keep us humble.)

8:20- I spy waving arms and smiling faces. There's Jespah,
Marycat, Littlek and housemate and Sugar (joined shortly
by 'The Boy'). Then Jerry arrives and Marycats friend,
Huan ?sp?
thence-
forth Laughter conversation, beer etc.
alls well that ends well.

great recap jjorge.

btw, didn't fishin say he was going to be there too?

Pueo
He might be going to the brunch tomorrow but he wasn't there last night.

One observation: it seems that the people east of the Mississippi are more prone to get-togethers compared to your brothers and sisters on the west of. When we lived in Illinois, we used to have progressive dinners, parties, and we knew our neighbors. Here in California, we know just a few of our neighbors, although we've lived here for over thirty years, and we've never had a social get-together. ;( c.i.

i'll get out there one day c.i.

pueo, I'm gonna remember that 'promise' pueo. The flight will cost you a grand, but we'll treat you to a GREAT MEAL. c.i.

sounds good

Oh Boy! Party at C.I.'s place!