I'm broke, tired, and getting sick.. oh I know! I'll drive to Boston!!
Jul 22 '04
The Bottom Line Free food & drinks, lots of eyecandy.. get to the next one or we'll have fun without you!!!!
As happens rather frequently, I had planned to visit my mother in Richmond, VA this past weekend.. and then about a week before I showed up, she goes "Oh by the way, there's an Epinions meet in Boston that weekend, and I've already told them you'll be there."
So, instead of making it to RVA that weekend (stupid Army and their stupid rules and regulations and lines and lines of red tape), I decided to just up and go straight to Boston. Better still, I was bored the night before I planned to leave for Boston, so I just grabbed my stuff and left at like, 7pm, from Watertown, NY (an hour north of Syracuse) and headed southeast onwards to Boston.
I finally got into town around 4am, at which point I realized that streets in Boston go from one way one direction, to one way the other direction, without ever giving you a sign that this had happened. Yes, I went down the wrong way down many streets that day. To make matters worse, half of the streets didn't even have lane markings, so it was pretty much every man for himself out there.
So, after driving the wrong way down about 3 one way streets, I realize nobody in Boston has any idea where a Cybercafe is, so I have absolutely no way of getting online to kill time until the meet over 12hrs later. (That's what I get for leaving early, eh?).. at which point I call up my mom, who just so happens to have just arrived in town herself.
About three hours later (LITERALLY!!!! I can't navigate Boston to save my life. even with maps. and a phone. and turn by turn directions. it's INSANE).. I sneak into her hotel room and hook up my laptop, check emails, LJ, etc.. until I just happen to crash on a couch for about an hour, before the internet comes back up and I decide to try to find a Barnes & Noble so I can get some coffee.
Two hours later I'm back in the hotel, cursing Boston's street system up one way and back the other, but at least the cripple is awake. We took turns sharing the mirror and talking about people (yes, including you), until we finally managed to get on the Metro and find our way relatively near Jillians/Julians/whatevertheplacewascalled.
Once we get off the train, we run into some crazy woman who shares a cab with us about.... 2blocks. Upon arriving at our destination (which we were actually at for about 4minutes, looking at maps trying to find it.. duuhh.. and only one of us is blonde!!!), we hobbled up the stairs, following the path of Epi-dolls configured in various interesting poses (but none quite as interesting as the ones Tim & I came up with at the DC greet.. of course, I was drinking at that one.. lol).. and then we got pounced by a bunch of Epinions freaks.
Lemme tell ya, all of you people are insane.
The staff folks are hot, every single one of them. This is not an understatement, there's a reason we all agree on this. Alexis is just.. adorable, and Randy may as well be walking around with a "snuggle me" sign on his forehead.. and Garrett probably would have looked just as cute even if he hadn't spent an eternity ironing his shirt.. and don't get me started on wishing I had Sara's hair.. le sigh.
There was meeting involved, and greeting. I munched on some neat little spinach, um, pastry thingies.. don't know what they were, but they were vegetarian, and free, and sitting on the table right next to me.
Then next thing I know there's a crazy man sneaking up behind me and grabbing me (this was before he stripped to reveal a black wifebeater) But he was hot, so I didn't mind. After being freed and turning around, turns out it was just Mike.. so I ended up knowing someone there other than my mother, yay!!!!
Not long after that, however, things start to blur.
Supposedly the meet kept going on, but all I really recall was the meeting of the Treo nerds. There were FOUR of us there with Treo 600 mobile phones.
There was some geeky gathering around Randy's laptop as he showed off some of the new stuff going on with the site lately (and simultaneously demonstrated the awesome ability of the SEXIEST PHONE IN THE WORLD to pretend it's a USB modem), and the crowd continued standing around talking like a bunch of, um, geeks.. and then Aashok ended up near me (as I denounced my geekness momentarily for munches) as I was sending an SMS, and asked me if I had his phone. Apparently, um, I did.
Then I drank some more soda, avoided getting my picture taken as much as possible, and ended up chatting with some cute Asian guy whose name I never got.. about.. yeah.. my phone.. I swear, I have a one-track mind when it comes to these things.
Anyways, after watching Mike slipping dollar bills to some hot chicks posing on one of the pool tables, and stealing a towel or two, I got attacked by a small gathering of Epi-dolls which decided to follow me out of the establishment and.. back into another section of the same place, where I drank until I remembered that I had only slept an hour.. at which point the mad doc donated her digital camera to the waitress as one hell of a tip, and Becky ran off with the two cute guys that were with us, and I really don't remember much else from that night.. I think I was asleep in my mind but my body was still moving.
The next morning, however, there was a sexy black man passed out in my hotel room, so it must not have been that bad of a night. *G*
I was a bit disappointed that (speaking of hotties...) Xiphoid didn't make it out.. I was excited when I saw her name badge on the table, but she sorta got home from her cruise and, um, stayed home, or something.
Now if only Tim & Katy had been able to make it, it would have been even better... oh well, maybe next time. Austin, TX could be good..
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