Tonight’s Ottawa Blogger gathering (my third) at Marshy’s in Nepean seemed like a good time for all. The conversation primarily stayed political and topics that came up ranged from Income Trusts to Quebec as a Nation to Mark Steyn’s book to Hugh Segal to David Dingwall to makework government programs getting cut to the Income Splitting session on parliament hill this coming January. Sara will do her darndest to make that one well known and I will do my best to attend since it directly affects my family.
Their are two pictures below of the 9 of us who attended this one.
On the left side we have Paul O., a frequent commenter on this blog and a few others. This was Paul’s first venture out. Paul has a blog but we are going to have to bribe him with a beer to get the URL. Next is Victoria, a very politically minded non blogger who hopes to have a blog up and running by Christmas. Listening to many of her views, I would say she would get a good ear from BloggingTories. The next one down the table is yours truly. A hefty 30 to 40 lbs more since I quit smoking. Time to cut out the ribs and wings and get a few salads under my belt. And bringing up the anchor position on the left side is OttawaBlogger mainstay Victor, the Phantom Observer. Victor has been to every one of these that I have been to and is well known to the Blogging Tories and the Red Ensign Brigade. As usual, he had his patented fedora.
On the right from the front of the table moving backwards we have Nikki, a politically minded friend of Sara who is right beside her. I noticed that like many of the female blog crowd, she had some good strong views on topics and it was nice to have her speak her mind. As we all enjoy, some disagreement in the discussions always makes it interesting and fun to debate. next we have Sara. You might know Sara from A Choice For Childcare. Sara is making a lot of headway pleading the case for single income families and stay at home moms and doing a great job of it. Next is Shameer of ShamTheToryMan. Shameer has quite astute at both Canadian Politics and American Politics and I learn something new from him everytime we sit down. He has also been to every one of these meetings that I have attended. Beside him is Matt from A Step To The Right. Matt is always smiling and we discovered that like many other right leaning bloggers, we are both reading Mark Steyn’s book right now. Beside Matt is his girlfriend Jenn who seemed to enjoy herself. I think her and Matt are a bit down as they just lost one of their two cats. (Maybe they can adopt a new one from the Harpers!!)
We were all disappointed our friend Brent Colbert didn’t make it out, but apparently Brent was the recipient of a surprise birthday party this evening. I think if the planners had told him he couldn’t make the blogger gathering that it would have ruined the surprise so we forgive him… THIS time!! Happy Birthday Brent!!
It was great getting five new faces out to this gathering. Hopefully YOU will come attend the next one.
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I had a great time visiting with everyone; my blog is Canadian Musings, but I really do spend more time commenting on others’ blogs than I do on my own. Be it Coyne, Officially Screwed, Cherniak, Janke, or whomever. My blog has never attracted an audience; on others’ blogs, I can have a discussion with many with whom I might disagree, but who appreciate a discussion.
And that really has little to do with the fact that it’s easier to comment on others’ blogs after an evening out of consumption of far too many pints. It’s true, but largely irrelevant. Or at least, so I would claim.
And we can thank Anna, our bartender, who took the picture(s) in the midst of having a large crowd fill in behind us, many of whom didn’t even identify which table they were at as they ordered food and refrehsments. It was so much more fun to be us, I think.
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Awesome! Great to be able to put faces to some of the names.
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I had fun, it was nice to finally meet everyone. The next one though should be in Kemptville, its a bit quieter lol.
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Always good fun. Maybe we could get Shameer to organize the next one?
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We found the cat!
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