From: adc@threel.co.uk (Alan "D." Culloch)
Subject: Wanderer Returns
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Hi everyone.  I'm back in Edinburgh now after five weeks in the States,
and I just wanted to say thank you to the soc.bi people I met while
I was there.

Muffy and d were kind enough to put me up for a weekend in San
Francisco.  This meant I was also lucky enough to meet the cats.  Flame
in particular is a bundle of energy with a strong inner conviction that
a foot beneath a sheet is really a small, furry animal to be quickly
*pounce*d upon!

We got to see the sights, including the Castro - where we had a great
meal served up by some superbly camp waiters with an endless supply of
doubles entendres based on the sizes of hunks of meat!  We argued
philosophy over an excellent brunch at the Breakfast Garden in
Oakland(?) and I got to meet some of the street life around
Haight-Ashbury on a late-night shopping trip with d, while we discussed
politics.  BTW, as someone who is usually pretty unforthcoming, I'd say
that d's skill in probing questioning is at least as good as advertised
here previously. 

After taking leave of Muffy (big hug after marathon phone call) and d
(first time I've ever been literally swept off my feet for a goodbye
kiss-n-hug <yum> <swoon> - Fay Wray eat your heart out!) I had the great
good fortune to meet up with our very own Ellen and Coe.

And what do you know?  Yes, THE HOT TUB WAS WORKING!
(After some filtration with a hastily-bought kiddy goldfish-net.)
For someone from frozen, windy Edinburgh the concept of sitting out
of doors in mid-October in a hot bath, sipping fresh orange juice
and discussing variously, life, the whichness of the why, and
just plain gossip, was positively surreal, and extremely fun.
Not to be missed.  Thanks Ellen.

Although, unfortunately, my visit _just_ failed to coincide with
those of various Orcs and Mikes, I consoled myself with the
thought that in the great, extended soc.bi David Lodge novel,
we were all more likely than not to bump into each other in
some airport lounge fairly soon anyway.

Ellen and Coe are really great company, can run up a mean
bread-cheese-and-chocolate-cake snack with no notice, _and_
gave me a lift to San Jose airport.  What more could a body ask for?

Mike: sorry our game of ansaphone tag never got anywhere in Boston/NY!
I vividly remember listening to your recorded voice while sitting
in a cheap motel room somewhere in New York State, watching
"Gizmo the Weather-Dog Sez:..." on TV, thinking "this is bizzare."
The closest I (almost) came to direct contact was with someone at
your office on a Friday afternoon, who said "Mike?  I think he's
upstairs at a party..."   He he, mlloyd -- party animal!

Thank you everyone, for a great time.  Hope to see you all in
Edinburgh again soon.

Alan,
adc@threeL.co.uk

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