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DC Meetup at Clyde’s November 18, 2023: Proof of Life

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We have proof of life from the DC Meetup.

I don’t recall which venue the BJ peeps ended up at for the DC Meetup, but it looks like a lovely place.  And what a great bunch of people!  Did you all play musical chairs so that everyone got a chance to talk with everyone else?

One more thing… who took the photo?

DC Meetup: Proof of Life
Photo by rekoob.  From left front, going around the table, to right front. Smiling happy guy, Ramona, planetjanet, Shana, Barbara, MattF,  lowtechcyclist, A Streeter, Dave, rekoob.

Follow-up note and photo from rekoob, who organized the meetup.

Many thanks to all who made to the DC Meetup on 18 November 2023! We celebrated our recent wins in Ohio and Virginia, talked about 4 Directions and Delmarva politics (Delaware/Maryland/Virginia), the Israel/Palestine situation, and got to know each other a bit better. Ramona and I took in the Obama portraits at the nearby National Portrait Gallery thereafter.

I’ll out myself — I’m the first person on the right (green sweater, yellow shirt).  Others will do as they wish.

Perhaps we’ll do it again before too long!

rekoob

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  2. 2.

    Baud

    Photo by rekoob. from left to right, going around the table: rebook (on the right at the end of the table)

    Please fix and complete.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: Happy smiling guy that I would love to meet is directly across from rekoob.  Closest to the camera and on the left, as we look at the photo.

    So, to me, left to right, around the table would start with happy smiling guy, then the lovely dark-haired person next to him, all the way to the furthest person on that side of the table, then to the person across from them, coming back toward the front and ending with rekoob in the green sweater and yellow shirt, who us closest to the camera, on the right as I look at the photo.

  10. 10.

    MattF

    I showed up last— got lost and wandered around the streets for 15 minutes— and so ended up at the head (or tail) of the table. It was at Clyde’s at Gallery Place and not at all noisy, since we were there after the morning rush had left.

    ETA: Barbara on my right. I’m at the far end, furthest from the camera.

  12. 12.

    zhena gogolia

    Dare I ask what restaurant you went to? I can tell it’s not the ONE WHOSE NAME SHALL NOT BE PRONOUNCED.

  14. 14.

    Barbara

    Last on left side of table. It was great meeting people in person and yes, we did get up and move around a bit. Clyde’s was a perfect location for the event. Thanks so much to rekoob, whose family is from near the rural place in Virginia that my SO’s is, and planetjanet knows my BIL.

  15. 15.

    lowtechcyclist

    Next to MattF on the left side of the table is Barbara, next to her is Shana, and planetjanet is next to Shana.

  21. 21.

    zhena gogolia

    @WaterGirl: Most of them are facing the camera by turning their heads. Only one is sitting at the end of the table, squarely facing the camera without turning his head.

  25. 25.

    Alison Rose

    (arrrrrggh

    (FYWP really hates numbered lists and formatting, redoing this)

    Around the table clockwise starting with the man in the white shirt:

    1. (unknown)
    2. (unknown)
    3. planetjanet
    4. Shana
    5. Barbara
    6. MattF
    7. lowtechcyclist
    8. (unknown)
    9. (unknown)
    10. rekoob

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    DC Meetup November 18, 2023: Proof of Life

    click on the photo to see the numbers.  I have tattooed everyone!

    1 Smiling happy guy
    2 Ramona
    3. planetjanet
    4. Shana
    5. Barbara
    6. MattF
    7. lowtechcyclist
    8. A Streeter
    9. Dave
    10.rekoob

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    @Rekoob: Okay!  I try to use the right capitalization (or lack thereof) for nyms, so I wanted to be sure I wasn’t doing yours wrong!

    If you want to be lower case rekoob on your iPad, just change it once and make a comment, and then your iPad should remember rekoob.

  45. 45.

    Quaker in a Basement

    Great photo. Looks like a good, fun meetup. Glad to make your acquaintance, all y’all.

  48. 48.

    MattF

    @WaterGirl: And check the ‘Nym’ field below the comment box for the desired capitalization. I have unintentionally erased that field from time to time, with unpredictable results. As WG says, fixing what’s in that field and making a comment generally sets things right.

  51. 51.

    sab

    @WaterGirl: Nobody respects the case of the first letter around here, except you who has to think of nyms in moderation.

    As usual, nobody looks like I expected. I am always surprised when jackals whose intellect I admire also turn out to be quite cute.

  57. 57.

    Mai Naem mobile

    Dave looks like Lanny Davis. I think anyway. He looks like some famous Politico, I’m sure of that.

  64. 64.

    WaterGirl

    @A Streeter: I fixed that up top in the list of people in the photo, and I changed it in my comment.

    I left it in the comment from Allison Rose because that wasn’t mine. :-)

    If you see it anywhere else, let me know.

    Nice to make your acquaintance!

  69. 69.

    boatboy_srq

    For the record, I’m the guy nearest the camera on the left. Also for the record, the last “proof of life” BJ photo I was in was for a trip efgoldman made a few years back, and back then I had hair. So, not surprising I’m not easily recognized.

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