Okay. Take two.
So last night, I was ready to live blog the Cheers & Jeers dinner. I prepped a diary with photos of everyone arriving at the Hilton on Wednesday, during the day. Unfortunately, I couldn't get any connectivity in the restaurant so I had to go upstairs to the sidewalk and post. That was a mistake because I couldn't maintain the diary from the restaurant PLUS it was a zoo in our private room as you shall soon seeing. There was jumping up and down hugging, drink, massive grinning and beaming, screaming, drink, constant chatter, laughing, more hugging, drink, posing for photos, drink, food. It was basically nuts.
So let's try this again:
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Common Sense Mainer and Bill in Portland Maine
For chronology purposes, let's start with Tuesday:
From our lunch:
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Bill in Portland Maine, Meteor Blades and vicki
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Common Sense Mainer has this pat response when vicki is making strong statements challenging him
It was a giant family reunion.
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Oke signing Bill in Portland Maine's autograph book
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rfall, Julie Gulden and Common Sense Mainer
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Julie Gulden
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Spousal Unit and Sharoney
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maggie jean and Bill in Portland Maineand Common Sense Mainer photobombing...
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Mik hugging Bill in Portland Maine
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vicki hugging Arenosa
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Brillig and Julie Gulden
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Back row: Oke, maggie jean, mik, Bill in Portland Maine and vicki
Middle row: Julie Gulden, brillig, Arenosa, Sharoney and her spousal unit
Always kneeling: Common Sense Mainer
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Convergence of Daily Kos orange polish, note that there was a quest for the DK4 actual tone. Smiley Creek in the fun blue thong, maggie jean going commando and me in the tasteful Cole Haans.
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Smiley Creek and maggie jean
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Bill in Portland in Maine doing a papal visit with Paradise50
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Deoliver47 and Oke
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Shanna Ingalsbee and her all volunteer check-in team
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Texasmom and Mr. Texasmom
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Now for the party!
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We all gathered at Hell's Kitchen near the Hilton
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The RSVPee-ers increased from 50 to 70 in just a few hours so Bill had to do a TURBO meet and greet
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Tex Dem, Julie Gulden and jnhobbs
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side pocket, Mrs. side pocket, Mr. Texas Mom and Texas Mom
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BFSkinner and Transactivist and Rosemary (I asked these kossacks to tell me who they are in the comments and I'll update)
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jotter was so happy, he clutched both aha aha (Mrs. jotter) and me in a hug and said "gawd, I love this!" It was his Big Love moment.
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The momcat and ek hornbeck
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bird brain
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My buddy, ed tracy
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Common Sense Mainer, aha aha (Mrs. jotter,) Bill in Portland Maine and jotter
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blurry but posting anyway... sidnora and Common Sense Mainer with a photobomb by Billy boy
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sidnora and Common Sense Mainer
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legendmn and Common Sense Mainer
legendmn's entire photo album can be seen here. He has a good camera.
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jotter is just a love bug, here is with vicki
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jotter getting a little vicki ponytail toupee
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jotter between Paradise50 and Smiley Creek
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? Jeff in CA, Joe F, Ed in Montana and Lefty Coaster
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L-R: Lulu, jolux, mnkid, Sidnora and devtob
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? and Common Sense Mainer
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?, ? and Parry Ander
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ek hornbeck and the momcat
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Land of Enchantment scrolling through her captures to show me a wooden indian and his feathers were lolly pops. Ugh, that's navajo for gah.
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cskendrick peeking over the top of my head to say hi
He didn't like this photo so we took some more
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cskendrick, a portrait
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A pensive cskendrick
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Bill in Portland ? and ?
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From L to R: Oke, Mrs. side pocket, side pocket, maggie jean, Julie Gulden, Mr. Texas Mom, Texas Mom and rfall.
Standing: Ramara and loggersbrat
BEHOLD!
And from the camera of legendmn:
(I've run out of time to caption each photo... sorry. I got places to go, people to meet...)
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introducing Trashablanca
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L-R: Lulu, jolux, mnkid, Sidnora and devtob
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