Just thought I’d post something here to move it up to the top and remind everyone that the meetup is this Saturday.
Juice, love your “Presidents should be masters of intellectual curiosity and firm in their convictions that are borne of arduous debate and re-examination” type stuff. Always good to have a guy who can think on board. Hope you can make it.
Deadzone, we agree on a lot. Hope you’ll be there.
PD, we don’t agree on hardly anything (political), hope you can make it.
Jg, I don’t really care if you come or not. I’m just kidding! It’ll be fun to meet you; you’ve obviously got your share of personality. You know, lots of my friends are republicans; some of them seem like they might even be as fanatical about it as you, jg. I don’t really know for sure, though, because we generally avoid talking more than briefly and superficially about politics. It’s a good thing not to let politics get in the way of friendships. Especially for you, jg, now that hardly anybody agrees with you any more. 😉
ZK I’m in your camp, but yeah, I’m really interested in meeting Jg and PD! Funny how that is sometimes!
And, just to clarify, the meeting’s at 5:30 now. There is something going on at the restaurant prior, so we moved it back a little.
I really encourage all of you to come. Everyone is very different in person, and in a very positive way! I think email/The Internet/Blogs being what they are, one always read’s one’s own point of view/perspective into the tone of a post, and when you actually meet people in-person, it’s a totally different experience!
I’ll try to make it, if the little youngster isnt giving me the sad face, play with me. 🙂
I was hoping sdrealtor would make it, as well as carlisle guy from across the pond.
Maybe we should just put rich on all the stickers and guess on the names. might be a fun icebreaker. Like you said, people are much friendlier in person, hard to malign someone when you see them as jolly humans instead of just some matrix computer.
Yeah, I think last time we had close to 30 people… but can’t remember.
It will be getting dark by 5:30. The restaurant’s location is the far end of the parking lot. When you turn in, it is all the way over on the left.
http://www.todayspizzaandsalad.com/
If you get lost, call (760)753 6425 and the restaurant can give you directions. I doubt anyone will because it is so easy to find, but just in case.
Not that I don’t love you all but on weekends I’m either working or playing with my kids. These days I’m also very busy with a start-up business for my wife. Sorry.
I was hoping sdrealtor would make it, as well as carlisle guy from across the pond.
Sadly, I will be making the trip up to LA for a pre-thanksgiving dinner with some friends. Then we take our dog sheep herding in Malibu for the first time! I’m not sure if the pup will chase the sheep, or attempt to eat them. Either way, it will be an interesting time!
I hope everyone has a good time at the meet-up! It would certainly be fun to meet all of you (if you exist of course, and aren’t just some kind of computer program robots).
Try and talk about housing and not about Bush or investing! 🙂
Great evening! Hopefully we’ll meet more at the next meet-up. I should have made a toast to Rich for starting this website, and being the pioneer in exposing the housing bubble. I’m really mad at myself that I didn’t think of it until after I left. So here’s a belated toast to you, Rich.
