13 May 2004
Well, as predicted, last night's blogmeet was vastly different from Saturday's, and a whole pile of fun.
I got home at nearly 1 am, tired, hoarse from shouting to be heard over the din of around 60 people all talking at once in a very small space.
First off some randomness:
- the venue was uncannily similar to the venue for the Christmas blogmeet... and really freaked me out when I first arrived.
- the chairs were incredibly comfortable.
- it was really dark in there, but with a nice romantic candlelit atmosphere which was at odds with the sheer noise in there.
- apparently my hair complimented the decor very well.
- what kind of central London bar does not have (or has run out of) - Diet Coke, Jack Daniels, Tequila and Jim Beam. I know I can be termed a fussy cow, but it shouldn't take four attempts to try and get a drink.
- the floors were incredibly slippy and on more than one occasion I narrowly avoided landing in an undignified heap.
- it was also interesting to see how the groups formed and shifted, and who the dirty stop-outs were who were still there at the bitter end... and on a "school night" too.
As for the people... beyond the usual suspects it was really nice to talk to (in no particular order) Tim, James, Tom, Robin, Mo, Katie, Simon (sorry for confusing you), Annie (at long last!), Ian (who actually got me to talk about blogging at a blogmeet), Loic, someone from the Friday thing whose name I didn't catch and Hugh.
... and a belated hello to those who I was aware were around me (Marcia, Gary, Cory, Darren, Matt, Tom, Sasha, Yoz and whoever the bloke in the kilt was - I wanted to congratulate him on being brave) and either didn't get a chance to or was too shy to say hello to.
I'm sure that my addled brain has missed people, but that's about all I can remember for the moment.
I wish you guys would stop having blogmeets.
Or maybe I should move to London. Hmmmm.
Sounds like a good time was had, and as long as a bar serves Southern Comfort I'm a happy(ly inebriated) man.
Hang on!
There was a meet last night?
Oh.
Right.
Hi, Sorry we never spoke, maybe next time.
;)
I do hope there's a weekend one sometime soon so the Manchester crowd can pop along to stalk you all :)
A blogmeet wouldnt be the same without someone talking about actual blogging. Or am I just the only sad blogger :)
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