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[rufo]

So... I've been back since this morning, but haven't felt up to posting 'til now.

First off, thanks to everyone who came. You made the hivemeet real - and spectacular. It was a great weekend in Chicago, and it's because of you all that it was what it was. So, thanks.

Secondly, I think an extra-special thank you for coordinating, planning and putting up with everything/everyone goes out to krystyn. You rock.

atdt, I think you win an award for "most likely to give out awards". And aren't you forgetting that I'm the one who actually found the place where you stood and uploaded pics with my PSP of l33tn3ss?

I had an interesting day yesterday... woke up, laid around for a bit, showered, ate leftover Gino's pizza for breakfast, said goodbye to INCyr and Silrn and headed up to the aquarium for a couple of hours. I then strolled up through Millenium Park and up Michigan Ave. for a while and then took the bus back down to Union Station to catch the train back home. It was certainly an interesting time, and the aquarium was very cool, but the hivemeet itself was such a highlight the day itself almost felt dull in comparison.

I'll probably have more to write later - but just wanted to say something for now.

[krystyn]

rufo, I am sorry I did not call you back in time to hang out. I fell into a collapsed heap in the early afternoon, and didn't wake for a bunch of hours. I am sorry things were so dull. I hope the weather was at least nice.

[rufo]

[Dorkmaster]

More Pictures! More Pictures! Aw, and I forgot I was missing Ozy too! Dude! I am so having Hivemeet 2006 at my house. We'll have the "Poop On!" exhibit in my bathroom (no cover charge!) and the um "Pogo the Chow" restaurant in my kitchenette, and we'll go see the "television theatre" perform 60 commercials in 30 minutes! We'll finish it up with a lunch with those sassy waiters with attitude. That's right! McDonalds! W00t! It'll be a blast, really! (Ok, so it won't, but we can still drink!? )

Ok, well I'm so glad to see the 1st initial inagural premiere numero uno Hivemeet was such a success. Again, it was a pleasure meeting fellow Firefly and superb gentleman Anton P. Nym, and I do hope that sometime we do something in Canadia so I can see you and Jamesi, and thebruce and all you Kawayzy Kanadians and have ourselves some fine spirited beverages and just plain hang out, talk and get all meta and serious and say "I love you man... no seriously. I love you, cuz you see what I see about ARGs, how they're just so... um, you know." And then you go "Totally." And we chug another, and um, I don't know... but that's why there must be a reunion tour of some sort, and it should be in Canada. (Seriously, ARGfest-O-Con Winter Games 2005-2006! I'm SO there!)

Glad to hear everyone got back safely (or at least to NOT hear of anyone getting back UNsafely...)

This sucks.. I don't know how to end this post. For real... I'm usually pretty good at this sort of thing, but for some reason...

Ok, well here goes... There was this time I was in a Perkins with some friends from College ^TM and they have this CB-radio type thing that you announce who's next in the waiting line and stuff... well one time I picked it up and I said "Hi." I couldn't think of anything else to say. I had grand dreams but all that came out was "Hi." Good story, eh? (I threw in that "eh" for the Canadians...) Um... Bye!

DM apologizes for the ramblings above (sort of... cuz it's kinda funny). But he was very tired, and needs sleep badly.

EDIT: after rereading (yeah, I'm that anal even when sleepy) I realized that in my little "colophon" there, that I used two different tenses of verbs in the same sentence. I regret nothing!

[astrovanman]

Alright, I think I have the roll call right, but correct me if I am wrong. In attendence at the Hivemeet this weekend were:

4dSwissCheese
Anton P. Nym
Ariock
Astrovanman
atdt
Clayfoot
CoffeeJedi
DasroKast
Fenwicked
hmrpita
INCyr
Kali
Krystyn
Ozy
Phaedra
rufo
Silrn
Skybruin
Spie
ThaJinx
Twilight
The Watcher
Ubersaurus
Varin + beekeeper widower Jim
water10 + beekeeper widow Danielle
Woody aka Le Tuna Man

So that puts us at 28 people in all. I had an excellent time this weekend and I hope everyone else did too.

[Le Tuna Man]

Hey, just thought I'd show up and say how much of a supremely awesome time I had. Honestly, you were all really awesome. Thanks for everything and for letting me become part of the group even though I never come here nor was I involved in ILB.

I mean that, too. Everybody was awesome.

-Woody

[ThaJinx]

[water10]

Just one reply to get the total replies up, from 666 ...

[krystyn]

I am going to post a bazillion times more to get it to 777!!!

[Dasro_Kast]

[CoffeeJedi]

[Dasro_Kast]

Also, between Real Life, and getting sick (BLECH...but so worth it ) from all the excitement, I haven't had much time to upload my pictures to flickr. I don't have a ton of people, because a) my poor canon has a tough time with fast moving low light shots, and I hate the flash, and B)as jinxie said, I felt like others had that angle covered . And they did. But I'm slowly getting my pics up on my flickr account (link's in the sig), and I have a set of only chicago pics that you can find at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dasro/sets/345442/ .

Such a great time...I still haven't been able to find the words to encapsulate what an incredible experience I had. All of you guys rock.

[INCyr]

Yeah, i have to aplogize for quality of some of my pictures... Like Dasro, I'm not a big fan of pictures with flash, and so I tend to take mine without, even in poor lighting situations. Unfortunately this means there's a good chance they suck in low lighting, which, at night, there is.

Blah.

So yeah, sorry that a lot of my pictures are completely horrible.

[water10]

[Fenwicked]

I'm sick too. Have been since the day after I got back. How weird is that?