Today, I showed up for an informal gathering of bloggers in Charlottesville.

I’m amazed that I went through with it, freaky as it is to meet people face to face that heretofore I’d only known in cyberspace. (Isn’t it fun when you have the chance to use the word heretofore?) I did some of those cartoon gulps a few times on the way there and seriously almost turned around and left before meeting up with them (once in my car, in the parking lot, a second time as I walked toward the door of C’ville Coffee.)

But I made it, and it was fun! Thanks to Waldo who organized the gathering and, enviably, never forgets anything he reads. Because I went through with it, I got to meet Anoop and KC in addition to Waldo and a handful of other bloggers; everyone was friendly and we enjoyed a nice chat.

I need to take a poll regarding the photo you see on the top right of your screen. I’m told I look younger in person than the photo portrays (I was tired when it was taken, it was at the end of a long day at a job I despised just after a long weekend of skiing in Colorado. That’s my excuse. Shut up.) It was also taken over four years ago when I was barely out of my twenties. The photo is the head shot taken for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch when I became their first shopping columnist, ever. The camera used cost more than I make in a year. Until now, I thought it was a decent picture.

So whaddya think? Does it stay or does it go?

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