Saturday I
went to an ex-West Coast Beauty Supply lunch. Jessie Lee, Chris
Chin-Wong, Rita, Peter Huang, and Steve were there. It was at Ton Kiang
restaurant in San Francisco. Very good Dim Sum. News, let's see... Bea
Cary married Brian Isabelle and she's pregnant with his kid (Bea has
two boys, I think the oldest is college age). West Coast was bought by
some Texas company, big changes are expected and people are looking for
new jobs. Rita is retiring from West Coast at the end of this week.
Then the gamers helped Fulton move back. It was mostly just the big
furniture so a lot less work. And yet it seemed worse than the first
time. Being full didn't help and we also didn't have Shannon. We played
a game of Diceland Space (Donald's copy) and had some ice cream. I ran
DC Heroes which included a big pointless fight because the heroes were
just doggedly going down the obvious route. Then a couple of hours of
DCH Cage Match and I got home at 04:00.
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Last Thursday
I went to the East Bay Mac Users Group meeting at the Berkeley Main
Library. BMUG, the old Berkeley Mac Users Group, is long dead and ebMUG
wants to fill in that hole. ebMUG is composed of some consultants who
teamed up for this project and their main rallying cry is no dues
because they feel that is the big reason that BMUG died (and BMUG did
have a lot of financial problems). It was a nice meeting with 20-30
people and Roxio presented Toast which actually is quite a cool program.
Dave Sweet's nephew Tim (his older sister Nancy's second son) got into
a bad accident I guess Saturday afternoon near Tucson. Dave and family
drove there Saturday night. Tim is no longer in the ICU and I guess he
was talking. He lost his spleen (which regulates the creation of
antibodies -- although not critical it's still fairly important), has a
broken rib, scarred in the face, and other injuries. Dave seemed to be
ok, but it's hard to tell over instant messaging. I know I'd be pretty
freaked.
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