I’ve been complacent in my posting this week. Too much to do between Riley’s birthday and work and not sleeping properly. I totally forgot to mention that I met with Skippy and Ryan this past Saturday.
I met Skippy and Ryan both through WordPress, primarily by talking with them via IRC, and they’re both into WordPress and blogging enough that they beat me to the web to talk about our meeting.
“Your Place” was a strangely named place to get together. I was very confused when Ryan first mentioned it. Also weird was that after my hour+ drive out there, the bardenter had me use the ladies’ room. It smelled of flowers and had no discolored puddles on the floor. Odd indeed.
The company was quite cool. We discussed some WordPress things, of course, along with some other web technology stuff. We exchanged job descriptions, the typical first-meeting stuff. And there was beer, which is always good.
I learned that Ryan’s getting married tomorrow, so stop by his site and wish him well. Yeah, I’ll drive an hour to meet with a guy and not even realize before I get there that he’s getting married in a week. I feel like a sap!
Skippy game me a cool Skippy.net bumpersticker. I haven’t decided what to do with it yet. Maybe stick it to my computer case. Surely I won’t be applying Skippy’s mug to my bumper.
Anyhow, I had a good retreat to chocolate country, and it was great to finally meet in person with these two guys I talk to all the time.
This might be the last WordPress meetup for me this year, since the Philly meetup folks have the next meetup on Thanskgiving weekend, and I’ll be out of town. And December’s meetup is on Christmas eve, when I doubt I will find a blogger to hang with. So January’s meetup should offer my return to real-life appearances, if that means anything to you. I’m looking forward to catching up with masquerade from #wordpress IRC at that one. I’ll have to remind him to show.
Someone needs to print #wordpress trading cards so we can collect them. I think Skippy’s ahead in the race so far.
