I arrived to find Don in a downstairs booth. Both deck areas that we might use for the AmigaOne were occupied with sizeable parties. Don said the East deck (our usual) party was breaking up. Mark Thomas and I got in line. Boy, it was crowded. Most people I've seen in half a year. We were in line for 15 minutes. As we neared the front I saw Sarah Boas in the kitchen making pizzas. I took her picture. The last one for the poor Camedia C-3020! as it turned out.
Salad, beer and pizza in hand I returned to the east deck where all but a couple stragglers were now gone. Mark was already up there. So Don and I cleared debris away from the eastern most 2 tables and commenced to yak.
Shortly thereafter, behold, Charlie and Chris arrived with motorcycle helments under arm. They depart for Philmont on the morrow... arising like 4:30am to catch the 6:30am departure by hired bus with 2 commercial drivers. Faaaaaancy. Charlie told us about Sarah's new job here at Conan's.
I'd rather drink beer than go back down to the car and roust out the AmigaOne, besides which I was less than stellarly prepared. It took me 3 hours yesterday to wade through the Wu antialiasing scheme, code the example in, and figure (once again) just where it should be installed in ppmplot. Instead Mark, Don and I traded debugging/documentation war stories about programming/hardware project from the past (and my present). Charlie waded in on a couple sides of the McMansion brouha ha... his own and the city of Austin's.
Just as Charlie and Chris finished eating and were heading off for hopefully an early snooze before tomorrow morning, Keith Sterzing arrived. I grabbed for my camera to take club photos and ..... s i g h.
Keith's A3000's YAM started behaving itself, so he had no current Amiga complaints. He was sporting a sparkling red/white/blue Democratic Party lapel pin. Very bright LEDs and a tiny little 3V battery. We plied Mark about his girlfriend who is currently a PhD student at UT in the department of Philosophy. He was looking at his watch. Likely he had someone more interesting to talk to than present company. Ah! Love!
No John Herron tonight so I gave Don a ride down to 43rd and Guadalupe where he would catch the #1 bus south.