This is it … Meet the Posters Day has arrived
November 20, 2008 – 6:36 amUPDATED: The party was fun. The posters were cool. Some even allowed us to take their pictures, which I posted to this site via pixelpipe and flickr.
Thanks to oldnfeeble, screen name, GrimWriter, samatha's mom, Love and Only Love, Wolfvanette, Tally Watchdog, Robrod, 8675309, Rio1980 and Deeply Concerned for showing up. Hope I didn't miss anyone.
To see the photos we took with my iPhone, go to this link.
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OK, so today is a busy, busy day. But an exciting one, too, I hope. Just not too exciting.
Two meetings starting before 9 a.m. One a community board meeting – or at least a committee of the board. One a news-planning meeting.
Then at noon there’s one that is a little historic – not in the BIG sense of historic – but, you know, historic as in new and different. (Maybe I made that definition up, but we've never done anything like this before.)
Anyway, a bunch of people who post to my blog regularly are coming over to our place for lunch. These are people I don’t know – or at least don’t know if I know them – even though I have been talking – in the digital sense – with them for months, maybe years. At least I assume they are people. We’ll see.
Meeting with them is something I’ve wanted to do for a while, but the opportunity presented itself as my “punishment” for wrecking the economy by reporting the news. Don’t ask: Just understand the thinking that got the original messenger killed.
Blaming the media for causing the bad news we report, says national conservative columnist and FSU alumna Kathleen Parker, is a little like blaming the guy who turned on the lights for a roach problem.
Anyway, it was all a good excuse to get my “blogging community” together – at least a few of them and presumably those who live locally. One of the posters, GrimWriter, organized it and has a list of who's coming; they are all using their digital profile names on their name tags.
If you’re not already on the list, don’t worry: We’ll do something else another time, maybe a picnic in the spring.
Depending on your perspective, this is either like inviting the fox into the hen house or the fox inviting the hens into the den.
Anyway, it will be lunch and conversation, and maybe we’ll like each other more or less depending on how it goes. At a minimum they’ll know that I’m not exactly 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds of pure good looks, overflowing intellect and charm, no matter what I’ve written or whose picture I’ve posted in the past.
It’s kind of like lying on your resume: not a good idea to disguise the “true” you unless you work for a 1-800 dating service – which, despite our industry’s hard times, we haven’t yet tried as a revenue stream. You never know.
Just lunch and conversation, and the lunch is from our cafeteria – some sandwiches – and whatever dishes the blog posters bring.
We’ll probably have a news intern as the official taster. They’d do it, too; college kids are always looking for free food.
Anyway, it’ll be fine. Nothing to worry about. We did rent a few off-duty federal TSA officers and their air-tight airport security systems just to be sure, though. (Just kidding. Insert happy face here.)
Anyway, I’m rewarding myself for doing this by going to both the women’s and the men’s FSU basketball games tonight. The women’s game starts at 6 p.m. followed by the men at 8 p.m. One ticket gets you into both, or just bring a couple of cans of food stuff, and they’ll let you in.
I’ve got tickets – I’m a season-ticket holder for the women – for both games and will bring some canned goods, too.
Assuming I survive lunch with no life-threatening injuries, cuts and bruises or broken body parts, I’m going to be feeling a little extra generous, if I'm feeling anything at all.
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