Following Edge

Finally, 3 days after the event and 2 days after Kat did a fine job describing it, I'll give you the summary of the Eugene Weblogger January Meetup.

There were a few familiar faces and lots of new people, especially thanks to Kat's effort dragging in her friends and neighbors. The crowd included:

Kinsey of Tvindy who brought his new iPod Photo to show off. By the end of the evening, I even got to (unsuccessfully) try to help him with a technical problem.

Ben of Ben's Log at Junk 'n' Stuff who brought in both his new professional-grade digital camera and his new Blackberry cell phone.

Michael Moore of Following Edge who brought mint-chocolate cookies in a horrible Christmas tin.

Robert, who isn't reading or writing blogs yet, but is in the learning process to see if he should.

Alan, who claims to be too lazy to have his own blog, but seems to know the rest of us from reading our blogs since moving to Eugene. Alan really added to the social dynamic, in my opinion, and he was still socializing when I had to leave.

Kat of Schoolgirl Sophistry who brought one of her "rock-climbing workout" gifts and three of her friends and roommates:

Matt of IR Coffee Guy (IR is International Relations -- as in Political Science)

Torgie of Surrealize.net who I was excited to see is a cartoonist, but who I determined is a bit too edgy for my blog's artwork.

Shanna of Shannanigans

The meetup was great and ran past 8:00 when I had to head home to get Lauren into bed, but the bad news was that The Strand added a super-left-wing movie over our meetup just a few days in advance and, even though their schedule showed the movie starting at 7:30, it started at 7:00, leaving us only a half hour of quiet.

We'll definitely be meeting somewhere else next time, but I'm at a loss to figure a better location where parking is not impossible, where food and drink is available, where minors are allowed, and where we might find free Internet. Comment here with any ideas, otherwise I may just make another bad arbitrary decision.