Busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
As the subject of this post suggests, this has been a rather hectic week. So hectic that I haven't yet had time to post about the weekend.
Saturday afternoon, I went to the annual Eye Of Harmony barbecue. I didn't get much of an opportunity to talk to some of the people I wanted to talk to, because I was drawn almost immediately into a lengthy conversation with one particular person. (I won't name names, even though I don't think he'd ever see this, but I will say... he's someone from Buffalo who is not ennisdl, whom most people would have walked away from after five minutes. I guess I'm more patient than they are, which isn't necessarily a virtue in this case, or in the case of a certain ex-Montrealer I often find myself spending more time with than I would prefer.) I did manage to have conversations with a few other people, though, including theengineer, his brother, and the Penneys. Attendance seemed low this year, though perhaps it picked up after I left to go downtown for Lance's Fabulous Evening Of Shenanigans Part Two, aka the second installment of the gathering to celebrate my turning 40.
A mostly-different group of people were there: plaidlibrarian, whitesangria, aprilsnark, kaelsu2, protegeboy, scapersuse and indydark made up the dinner group. summ3r_daze joined us for dessert, and then we made our way to the karaoke bar, where Declan met us (having had to fight off a couple of guys while he was waiting, who thought that he might be looking for company). (I think I remembered everyone who was there... apologies if I forgot someone.) Only problem was... karaoke had been cancelled! :( Apparently the host had suffered a nervous breakdown and been hospitalized. I hope it wasn't caused by the monotone "Hey Jude" we all suffered through the previous week... So we sat down and had a quiet drink together, and some good conversation. Not all of it was about Polaris, either. :) Thanks to everyone who came out for either (or both :) ) halves of the celebration!
Sunday, I had a very productive meeting with whitesangria and Monique M. to discuss Polaris stuff. Afterwards, we went for Japanese food, for which kaelsu2 joined us. I don't recall the name of the place, but it was on the south side of Front, just south of the St. Lawrence Market. It was quite good - I had a breaded chicken dish that I forget the name of (it was a curry, but it wasn't spicy at all), and we shared some appetizers.
So that was my weekend. Now I'm ready for another where I'm not quite as busy. :)
Saturday afternoon, I went to the annual Eye Of Harmony barbecue. I didn't get much of an opportunity to talk to some of the people I wanted to talk to, because I was drawn almost immediately into a lengthy conversation with one particular person. (I won't name names, even though I don't think he'd ever see this, but I will say... he's someone from Buffalo who is not ennisdl, whom most people would have walked away from after five minutes. I guess I'm more patient than they are, which isn't necessarily a virtue in this case, or in the case of a certain ex-Montrealer I often find myself spending more time with than I would prefer.) I did manage to have conversations with a few other people, though, including theengineer, his brother, and the Penneys. Attendance seemed low this year, though perhaps it picked up after I left to go downtown for Lance's Fabulous Evening Of Shenanigans Part Two, aka the second installment of the gathering to celebrate my turning 40.
A mostly-different group of people were there: plaidlibrarian, whitesangria, aprilsnark, kaelsu2, protegeboy, scapersuse and indydark made up the dinner group. summ3r_daze joined us for dessert, and then we made our way to the karaoke bar, where Declan met us (having had to fight off a couple of guys while he was waiting, who thought that he might be looking for company). (I think I remembered everyone who was there... apologies if I forgot someone.) Only problem was... karaoke had been cancelled! :( Apparently the host had suffered a nervous breakdown and been hospitalized. I hope it wasn't caused by the monotone "Hey Jude" we all suffered through the previous week... So we sat down and had a quiet drink together, and some good conversation. Not all of it was about Polaris, either. :) Thanks to everyone who came out for either (or both :) ) halves of the celebration!
Sunday, I had a very productive meeting with whitesangria and Monique M. to discuss Polaris stuff. Afterwards, we went for Japanese food, for which kaelsu2 joined us. I don't recall the name of the place, but it was on the south side of Front, just south of the St. Lawrence Market. It was quite good - I had a breaded chicken dish that I forget the name of (it was a curry, but it wasn't spicy at all), and we shared some appetizers.
So that was my weekend. Now I'm ready for another where I'm not quite as busy. :)