NorCal and SoCal meetups

Oph, that's more than 100 degrees warmer than Boston today.

Pics or it didn't happen.

You beat me too it! I was just about to post that

Huh. Guess Paladin's phone is acting wierd still. I took a pic too, but the file is too large to load here without shrinking. If he doesn't get it up, I'll get it up once I get home (currently in Santa Monica browsing a Barnes and Noble).

^Just got back from a fun dinner with @Anna before she set off for San Diego. She says "Hi!"

Just got back a half hour ago. For anyone that thinks @garamet is a persona...she ain't. I mean that in the best possible way. We shot the shit about career path and her kids and family stuff. All and all a good time. I'm not posting pics of this one,since I know the usual suspects will want to troll, though.

The meet ups these past few days have been the highlights of my leave period.

@Anna is fabulous! Smart, funny, and very together. (Hope some of your ears were burning, because we were dishing on you in between talking about RL stuff. ) Had a great time, looking forward to the next time!

Are you/everyone else able to see the photo? I posted it in post #54 and see it fine. I can also see a reduced version of it in the quote in post #55.

Lies! Lies I tell you! There are no pictures in those posts, only broken image links.

I don't see any photos.

I downloaded this from Wordforge, re-sized it in Paint, and am now re-importing it.

If you don't see it, let me know.

I see a photo!

Works, and

God, I look tired in that photo

Oh, I think you were about to drift off, but not because you were tired.

To be honest, I didn't sleep much the night before, so drinking three beers might not have been the best idea. Thankfully, the hotel was only five minutes away.

Pens in the breast pocket. Hmmmm....

I think it's always been pretty well established that Paladin's a nerd in the good way -- no big deal about the pens. Now, were there a pocket protector, then we'd need an intervention.

I didn't even wear shirts with breast pockets regularly until about a year ago; I've been more of a T-shirt kinda guy.

The two cheap-o PaperMate pens are of the type I seek out for drawing, which, if you've seen my art thread in the Workshop, you know I do a lot. I've not yet gotten accustomed to pencils, and those PaperMates let me draw very, very light lines.

What did you say?!!?!!?

Abusing person info eh?

@gul, @shootER

No.

Looks like you guys had a great time!

How have i went 11+ years at WF and this is the first time i've seen a pic of paladin??

Nothing like what i expected!

Paladin looks almost exactly as I pictured him -- perhaps I've seen an image of him before.

But the other guy -- is that O2C? If so, he is different in almost every way from what I thought he'd be. Then again, searching my soul, I find that I sort of expected him to be a muscular Pict with blue body paint.

I had the same reaction to O2C when I saw him. I thought he was an old man all these years, and I find that we're actually pretty close in age (trying not to give away too much).

I believe you saw the video of me reciting "Erlkoenig" a year or so back.

O2C has a pretty good James Franco going on (though he was goateed Edward Norton in profile).

'Course, I was easy for them to find, being the only black chick in the joint.

He looks more like James Franco to me.

O2C has long been one of the greatest Wordforge enigmas. He actually looks about how I expected, though I thought perhaps he would be Asian. I had already seen pictures of the other two.

You're right. That's what I meant.