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[icebluenothing]

The party was a smashing success.

In attendance were 01flux, crazedcamel, darkmane, deadrose_black, icebluenothing, kespernorth, lara7, luchog, m_cobweb, retcon, rimrunner, the Reverend Justin, sikfuk, songhawk, treebyleaf, wendolen, and windbourne and her friend Sally. (Did I miss anyone?)

At one point, after lara7 asked me if there was anyone at the party she might know from LiveJournal, I stood up and asked, "Everyone, if I may have your attention, a quick poll: Does anyone here not have a LiveJournal account? Anyone? .... Anyone at all?" Heh. Can you buy LiveJournal stock yet?

A weird sleeping sickness seemed to have descended over Seattle that night: both greenwood and squeetard, who had said they were coming, ended up falling victim to deep naps instead, and kespernorth was running late because of a nap, too. (I'd fallen into one myself that evening, actually, but had set an alarm so as not to miss my own damn party.)

I don't know if anyone but me brought food, but people brought alcohol. Boy, did they bring alcohol. I think we have more left over now than we did when the party started, including some lovely mead and some amazing Polish potato vodka. Good stuff.

The loot: I didn't expect to get presents, but people surprised me. I got a lovely functional model of one of DaVinci's flying machines from wendolen, a Chad Michael Ward print (see the graphic to the right) from 01flux, a copy of the "Binary Bible" from lara7 in honor of my 100000th birthday, and songhawk brought me A Fine and Private Place, since she had a copy to spare and knew it was on my wishlist. Very cool stuff! Thanks, everyone!

Everybody who came seemed to have a really good time. I'm so glad we did this. Many thanks to everyone who came out.

Comments

[luchog.livejournal.com]

"including some lovely mead and some amazing Polish potato vodka."

Well, technically the vodka was Austrian, but the style was definitely Polska. I've only found one better, and wish i could afford a bottle of it right now.

This was the mystery sleeping disease.

[bork.livejournal.com]

It's December, in Seattle. And body went 'oh yeah! no sun!'

I wish I could have been there, too. Move to Australia! Then the seasons will be reversed, and I'll have tons more energy!

[wendolen.livejournal.com]

Sally = morgyne

Just in case you're interested. ;)

[helix90.livejournal.com]

Apparently I was only there in spirit.
But I do remember bringing some one with me...

:)