Tommy's Blog

We had a big turnout for the weblog meetup at Crossroads last night but I probably made sure that one new member won’t be coming back.

There were two new people there last night: the prolific man behind ~C4Chaos (he’s got three different blogs and posts four or five times a day) and Jules Maas, who had the bad luck to sit next to me.

Danny (I think that is his name — I’ve seen him once or twice before at the meetings but I don’t have a URL) wanted us to actually talk about something related to blogging, so he asked everyone about our blog hosting. Do we use a service like Typepad, Wordpress, or Windows Live Spaces, or one of the communities like LiveJournal, or do we use a hosted account, or do we have a dedicated server somewhere, whether at a co-location facility or at home serving pages over DSL or cable? He was taking notes so once I find his post I’ll point to it.

It was a good meetup and, even though we didn’t always talk about blogging (though we mostly did), we didn’t mention science fiction once.

I got a beef-and-rice bowl from Bulgogi and they gave me a lot of food. I had eaten what I could and, as I stood up to get rid of my tray, Jack said, “You didn’t eat much of that.”

“You should have seen how much I started with,” I said. “There was this much.” As I made a motion with my hand over the bowl, I hit the glass of Sprite — the half-full glass of Sprite still cold enough to have unmelted ice — and spilled it all over Jules who was seated to my left.

She was remarkably gracious about the whole mess and even refused my offer to pay for dry cleaning.

Welcome to the Eastside Weblog Meetup, Jules. If you will come back again, I promise I won’t sit next to you.