The importance of a good breakfast

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

The 7th Annual Dinosaur List Get-together was a great success, with 29 people 
"officially" attending.  Those who braved the early morning hour on Thursday 
included Andy Farke, Chris Brochu, Christian Kammerer, Cliff Green and his 
wife Eileen, David Peters, Demetrias Vital, Donna Braginetz, Jim Farlow, Jordan 
Mallon, Judy Horan, Ken Carpenter, Kris Kripchak, Mark Hallett, Mary Kirkaldy, 
Matt Bonnan, Michael Corliss, Michael Skrepnick, Mike Keesey, Pete Buchholz, 
Scott Hartman and his girlfriend Laura Vietti, Todd Marshall, Tom Holtz, 
Michael Habib, Angela Botzer, Ralph and Barbara Molnar, Sam McLeod, and a few 
others 
who dropped by. 

We had a lot of laughs during the introductions, as people were asked to say 
who they were, where they were from, and whose email they read first on the 
list.  Many attendees generously contributed to the prizes and almost everyone 
"won" something.  Thank you to all for the wonderful donations--we could have 
had a great auction!

In what I hope is not a trend for future meetings, there was no food served 
before the talks or at the breaks.  Since most people expected to see pastries 
or similar, there were roaming herds of paleos looking for food.  Our location 
was out of the way, on the upper level by the pool, but a number of people 
thought that ours was the food station.  The first couple of people joined us 
(but had to introduce themselves and relate their fondness for our postings), 
but we had to tell later arrivals that it was a private meeting.  This was an 
unexpected happening, but a friend told me that the DML Breakfast was listed on 
the Hotel Channel's events for the day!  I took a picture of the message on 
the tv screen, and there it was: "Dinasaur (sic) Mailing List Breakfast, 
poolside, 7-8 a.m."

Mary