From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Balloon Boink report
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 16:45:37 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


A Note to anyone reading this, especially lurker types: 
GO TO A BOINK! ANY BOINK, THEY ARE WONDERFUL EVENTS.

It was really nice for me (even though I >was< the baby of the boink) to
meet some of these people whose stuff I've read for so long- to put faces
and, much more importantly, people, behind the ideas/words.

In article <myfp6#r@lynx.unm.edu> hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG writes:
>Anybody got any other anecdotes that need relating? (from friday's dinner)

Ya know, did Teri and Marcia ever find the Spam with Cheese Chunks?

>Somebody (I seem to remember it
>being rON, but that's because I suspect he was the only one with this kind
>of energy) scratched off the table and hit someone at the next table on the
>foot.  Poor guy, he'd been hit before. 

T'was I. :), though I was aiming for the cute girl two tables down :)

>Once it was entirely too late, everybody returned to their abodes of the
>moment and slept, all too breifly, except, of course, rON, who headed out
>to party.

Yeah- all you old folk weenies heading to an early bed :)

The Balloon Fiesta part I'll leave up to others to describe. Lets just say 
that one quickly runs out of appropriate adjectives.
There were, btw, 642 balloons registered. Well over 600 of them went up in 3
giant waves over a two hour period. That's a lot of hot air ballons, a lot of
color. If (or is it a necessary when now? :) we hold this next year, you'll
want to attend. There were ballons of all colors, many specially shaped ones,
including a rendition of Columbus's Santa Maria (piloted, btw, by a direct
decendant of CC), balloons shaped like bottles, shoes, houses, Santa Claus,
pigs, and, yes, even regular hot air ballons :)

>The boink meal was lunch at Sadie's.  Green chili everywhere.  Good stuff.
>rON had climbed back into his coffin at this point, so he didn't get to attend,
>which was disappointing to those of us who wanted to see HIM fading.  Oh well.

Heh. :[... (best vampire smilie I can come up with :)

>The net.band turned out to be a net.duet, but that rhymes better anyway.  We

And some decent playing by Ray and Larry (despite Larry's continually assurance
that he sucked on guitar, he was lying- he actually is quite good. Ray is 
>really< good. We were all very impressed- maybe it was the grapes? :)

>I think Mel still doesn't understand why all our roofs are
>flat in New Mexico (and while attempting to explain I realised I don't,

I'll have to look that up for y'all.

>restaurant and ate.  This is a severely decadent bunch.  Sure was fun.  Lou
>was kind enough to help many others with meal consumption duties.  Hadda be
>careful passing the salt past this guy. 
>Anecdotes?

Besides Ron dribbling salsa all over himself then wiping his white shirt with
a nice blue napkin? The fork swapping at dessert? (hell, the dessert swapping
at dessert :)? The mysteriously procured bottle of hot sauce? Our Mascot, the
leaf? Feeding dried tortilla chips to the pigeons out on the patio? And I 
never did look on the other side of that sculpture that was either breasts or
a butt....


>At this point, Mel and I had to rush back to Albuquerque so we could miss her
>plane, so somebody else'll have to relate anything else that happened.  We said
>our goodbyes, and hit the road.

Teri, Marcia and Rob went one way, Ray, Lou and myself went another, so we said
our good-byes to them at that point, wandered about looking at the old churches
in Santa Fe then sped back so Ray and Lou could catch their flights home. (They
made it in time, unlike >some< people we know) :)

>Balloon boink credits and thanks:  Thanks bunches to rON, for planning, mailing
>list duties, a great breakfast at an hour that made it difficult for me to
>tie my shoes and general co-hostage duties too numerous to mention.

And a tip of the ol' chapeau to my partner in crime Larry, without whom this
last weekend would have been just another boring two days :)

>Also, Thanks to Mel for helping me get ready for the party - duties above
>and beyond what can reasonably be expected from crashspace users. . .

Yeah, she helped him clean his house :)

My hellos to Teri and Marcia and Rob and Lou (who found me fondling my banana
at the airport :) and Ray and Mel and Larry. A special thanks to Larry's and
my roomates (Ed and Mark, respectivly) for puttin' up with us.

I'll repeat it again- if you've got a chance to attend a boink, go for it.
It doesn't matter who you know there, you'll leave with some pleasant memories,
that's for sure :)

r.
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