[TheForge] ABANA cook-out

[Steve Smith]

No apologies needed...

Steve

Saint Phlip wrote:

> Yep, thanks to Ries, a great time was had by all ;-)
> 
> My deepest apologies, all, that I was unable to follow through on my
> intentions, but circumstances well beyond my control occurred and are
> still occuring. I'm not going to discuss it on line, but I will offer
> my most sincere thanks to the various gentlemen of TheForge for
> putting up with me and my bitching, and giving me rides to at least
> ease the situation, as much as it could be eased.
> 
> I owe you all, one way or t'other, and I won't forget it. Likely won't
> be able to pay you back directly, either, so I expect I'll need to
> work ever harder at helping out other folks in a bind. But, let me
> publicly post my deep and sincere thanks to all of you, for being you,
> and putting up with me bitching about my difficulties ;-)
> 
> And, the Conference was WONDERFUL ;-)
> 
> Expect, once it's safe, I'll tell y'all about all the cool things I
> saw and learned. The Aussie demo team was the greatest, in terms of
> the sorts of things I wanted to learn- they do a bunch of handwork,
> and opened my mind to all kinda cool things ;-)
> 
> But, for the time being, I'm going to withdraw and deal with a few
> challenges, and wish all of y'all could have been there.
> 
> Phlip
> 
> On 7/10/06, Gladish Family <gladish at cnw.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ries Niemi wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > For those of you who weren't there, we did indeed have a Forge Cook
>> > Out at ABANA.
>> > For various reasons that Phlip can describe if she decides to, we
>> > ended up doing it in the parking lot of the conference, on a couple of
>> > pickup tailgates, which probably was just as well.
>> > We guzzled down 3 or 4 dozen oysters, some beef items, sausuages, and,
>> > of course, lots of beer.
>> > A good time was had by all.
>> >
>> >
>> > Ries Niemi
>> > Industrial Artist
>> >
>> > http://www.RiesNiemi.com
>> >
>> Aw, Crums!
>> I could have made it to that...Glad you had a good time.
>>
>> Andy Gladish
>>
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