From: imf@neo.com (Ian McFarland)
Things proceeded at a quiet pace this week, with Spaghetti à la Bagus recalling the domestic days of yore on the City's littlest avenue. The new guests were at a minimum, with only Susanna Camp from Howtired making a first-time appearance, as far as I could tell. I cannot even report coming across a single German this time, an eventuality that had until this time been purely theoretical, in my experience.
I myself was in attendance only toward the end of the evening, but the food was plentiful, and most delicious. I even managed to arrive before the last of the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale had evaporated into the night, and so amused myself with its amber qualities, and the comfortable conversation of an evening among friends.
The usual suspects were in attendance of course, as the photographs will attest, losely affiliated in congregations and aglomerations in the kitchen, in the dining room, by the refrigerator, and on the back stairs. The pools of conversation coalesced around the usual topics of overwork, word processing software, life in the days of 6502 assembler, character coding, and ontology. The tone was cordial, unencumbered. The night was close and warm.
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