Supply, Demand

In Reston, VA:

"Five Guys" is a burger chain reknown for large greasy burgers and shovelling enormous quantities of french fries with each order. And it's soooooo good. :-)

Supply, Demand

In Reston, VA:

"Five Guys" is a burger chain reknown for large greasy burgers and shovelling enormous quantities of french fries with each order. And it's soooooo good. :-)

Columbus Weekend

After leaving my office Friday afternoon, I met up with cuyahogarvr and kent4str to drive to Columbus, OH. Despite heavy rain in Maryland and a later departure than planned, we were still in the greater Columbus area in good time.

In fact, we arrived early enough we could drop by Jeff & Ed's place to join the Columbus bear group's holiday party. I sometimes think we know more people in Ohio than we do in DC: we knew at least one third of the hoards o' men attending.

Saturday was largely spent sleeping in, then doing a little shopping in Lancaster, OH, near the home of our local hosts jearbear65oh and David. The entire purpose of the trip was David's 40th birthday, despite him looking barely a day over 30. (Bitch.) After a brief nap at home, we headed to the Columbus downtown for David's party.

I was once again surprised how many of the people attending we knew. Yes, the odds were better since we were already familiar with their friends for over a decade, but it's an odd feeling to drop into a city several states away and feel so completely at home.

I took lots of photos of the party; once I get names for the small handful of people I didn't know initially, I'll get them posted on Flickr or something. Well, except for the collection of pictures of me snogging one hot guy or another. :-)

By Sunday, it was time for us to depart and head to Cleveland. The weather had turned cold and threatened snow overnight but we are happy to report that our flight was not cancelled, just slightly delayed. Even the turbulence as we flew out of Cleveland was relatively mild compared to what we had anticipated.

Cleveland on the tarmac:

Columbus Weekend

After leaving my office Friday afternoon, I met up with cuyahogarvr and kent4str to drive to Columbus, OH. Despite heavy rain in Maryland and a later departure than planned, we were still in the greater Columbus area in good time.

In fact, we arrived early enough we could drop by Jeff & Ed's place to join the Columbus bear group's holiday party. I sometimes think we know more people in Ohio than we do in DC: we knew at least one third of the hoards o' men attending.

Saturday was largely spent sleeping in, then doing a little shopping in Lancaster, OH, near the home of our local hosts jearbear65oh and David. The entire purpose of the trip was David's 40th birthday, despite him looking barely a day over 30. (Bitch.) After a brief nap at home, we headed to the Columbus downtown for David's party.

I was once again surprised how many of the people attending we knew. Yes, the odds were better since we were already familiar with their friends for over a decade, but it's an odd feeling to drop into a city several states away and feel so completely at home.

I took lots of photos of the party; once I get names for the small handful of people I didn't know initially, I'll get them posted on Flickr or something. Well, except for the collection of pictures of me snogging one hot guy or another. :-)

By Sunday, it was time for us to depart and head to Cleveland. The weather had turned cold and threatened snow overnight but we are happy to report that our flight was not cancelled, just slightly delayed. Even the turbulence as we flew out of Cleveland was relatively mild compared to what we had anticipated.

Cleveland on the tarmac:

Critters

Our Columbus hubbies, jearbear65oh and David, have a zoo of critters with which they share their cave...

This is Maggie. She's dumb as a rock but is actually the smarter of the two dogs. She's incredibly energetic, has the attention span of a fruit fly and is lots of fun to chase.


This is Beau. Alas, he has a minor ear infection, hence the satellite dish. He's clearly not happy about it, but on the flip side, he gets great radio reception.


The lump of fur under the xmas tree is Samantha. Like any cat, she's sociable when she wants to be and would otherwise damn all humans to hell if it weren't that humans are needed feed her regularly. Fortunately, she has no particular interest in the tree and has no opposable thumbs so we're OK for now.

Critters

Our Columbus hubbies, jearbear65oh and David, have a zoo of critters with which they share their cave...

This is Maggie. She's dumb as a rock but is actually the smarter of the two dogs. She's incredibly energetic, has the attention span of a fruit fly and is lots of fun to chase.


This is Beau. Alas, he has a minor ear infection, hence the satellite dish. He's clearly not happy about it, but on the flip side, he gets great radio reception.


The lump of fur under the xmas tree is Samantha. Like any cat, she's sociable when she wants to be and would otherwise damn all humans to hell if it weren't that humans are needed feed her regularly. Fortunately, she has no particular interest in the tree and has no opposable thumbs so we're OK for now.