ASGRA Rodeo

[bjarvis]

Friday night was relatively low-key. cuyahogarvr arrived from Cleveland late Thursday and spent much of Friday being a tourist around DC while kent4str and I were at work. In late afternoon, Woody arrived from Pittsburgh, completing our household for the weekend.

After a quick disco nap, the four of us ate at "America" at Union Station before walking over to the Hyatt for the evening country dance. All four of us claimed our "entertainment" passes which have given us complimentary access to all events (and thus saving us a bundle of cash).

The dance itself was off to a slow start but it filled in nicely by 10:30 PM. Soon enough, however, we were meeting & greeting a large number of friends, both local and out-of-town.

Our DC Lambda Squares square dance demo at 11 PM was lightly attended but lots of fun nonetheless with a quick tip. Somehow I was given the microphone for an impromptu invitation to all present to come to our open house on Monday night; I managed not to make a fool of myself on mic --as near as I can tell anyway.

We stuck around until about 12:30 AM or so before heading home and sleeping soundly.

Saturday afternoon was spent milling around the hot men at the fairgrounds in Montgomery County. I'm not big on the rodeo events themseves: as the old joke goes, I was taught not to play with my food. :-) More to the point, I'm only peripherally interested in the competitions and the arena itself has no shade so I wouldn't be able to bear the heat & direct sunlight for more than a few minutes anyway. Yeah, I'm a wuss. The sweat lodge portajohns were oppressive enough on my fragile consitution.

Still, there were lots of people we knew among the dancers and community groups in the dance & vendors tents. I have 50+ photos I'll assemble onto a web page later this weekend. In the interim, I offer the following impromptu LJ assemblage:

zzbear, copperred, stormecho, otterpop58 & kent4str Impromptu LJ gathering at ASGRA rodeo, 2006-09-09, Gaithersburg, MD.

Now off to dinner and the evening dance!

Comments

[otterpop58.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I remembered to suck in my gut :)

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I have not kissed one of the guys in the picture... yet.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow! That's a handsome group of men!

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was my comment.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Does that make me a slut?

[bigfundrew.livejournal.com]

mannnnnnnnnn...one of these days I'm gonna manage to arrange to be at one of these fun events.

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

no, that makes you a man of taste and perception. an unfortunate man of taste and perception, since you haven't planted lips on any of them yet.

(I'm only one ahead of you, having known/met Kent for years/many times)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Relax... You looked hot fine, as always. :-)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

We're both in the same category that way so at least you'll have company no matter what label we earn. :-)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

They are indeed! There was much hotness around the rodeo grounds which I'll have on my web site shortly.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Second weekend of September, every year... :-)

[rsc.livejournal.com]

More to the point, you "remembered" to take off your shirt.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to read this as "I have not kissed any of these guys" or "There's one among these guys that I haven't kissed".

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

I meant "I have kissed 4 out of 5 of them..." -- bad writing! [slaps self]

[bigfundrew.livejournal.com]

yeah...this year and last it was weekends with the kids...maybe next year, I'll get their grandmother to watch them...

[stormecho.livejournal.com]

Damn sun in my eyes. Looks like I'm sleeping.

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think he meant he hadn't kissed ONLY one in the picture...

And that doesn't make you a slut - it's BECAUSE you're a slut. But I like that in a man. Obviously...

[otterpop58.livejournal.com]

that would make you zzbare :)