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07/21/2005 Archived Entry: "July Seattle Weblog Meetup Report"

Last night's weblog meetup was a lot of fun! Jack, grandson R---- and I arrived in good time despite my Neurotic Promptness Syndrome worries -- three in the car lets us use the 520 HOV lane. I was able to get the furniture optimzed and my laptop set up before too many folks arrived. Those who attended:

Scott Laird would have won the prize for biggest camera! His photos start here.
Jake Ludington brought free laptop desks for all!
8Bit Jake
eric and ben
Harry Love -- his report and photos.
Andrew Ferguson dot NET won't be back until the end of the year as he's off to school until then. Andrew, start a blog meetup at your college!
Beth Goza and Phillip Torrone apologized for lack of gadgets (I said we loved them even without gadgetry) but PT did bring a copy of the third issue of MAKE for people to look at. They supported Ralph's Grocery and Deli by actually buying a (small) grocery cart's worth of groceries!
samantha
Robert (SEABlogger)
Stuart and Louise Maxwell were back after a first meetup last winter.
Manuel
Jack writes Antigravitas and Jack's Tasty Links. He found a new-to-him beer to sample: Monty Python's Holy Grail Ale.
Dylan
Annabel
Clark Humphrey
Ryan Anderson
Tara Shea
Staci of Daymented attended for the last time for a while -- she's moving to Canada!
Mark Ayers joined us for the first time -- his journal.
josh of sciencevsromance.net and seattle.metblogs.com
Chas who also does Radio Free Redmond

We had three toddlers present: Ben Soroos, Annabelle, and grandson R-----. Our grandson did fairly well behavior-wise; he was friendly to all, played bottle cap games with Mark Ayers and immediately starting to leap up and down when Mark asked if he was a "bouncy boy." He hugged a non-plussed Philip Torrone. He only ran out of the deli a few times and returned directly (he was doing a loop around the refridgerator case). On the negative side, he leaned back too far while sitting on Jack's lap and fell to the floor. Wailing ensued for a few minutes, but ice on the back of his head helped him calm down quickly. I don't want to bring him every month, but an appearance from time to time will be acceptable.

I think I talked with most everyone who was there (Jack did some grandson-wrangling). A good meetup!

(tags: meetup, blogs, blogmeetup, seattlemeetup)

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Posted by Andrew Ferguson @ 07/23/2005 08:11 PM PST