On a wet, rainy evening, where the traffic was snarled, the evening began slowly with only a few attendees by 6pm.  However, as the dark skies got darker, the crowds just kept on showing up and soon we had a very healthy crowd of about 45 present to discuss the elections, wine tasting, work challenges, new books published via the web and boat load of other news.  For example, Mike Garvey was there fresh from having successfully completed the Marine Corps Marathon in about 5.5 hours and losing a toe nail in the process!  He raised $2,000 for his charity Jill’s House.  Way to go Mike!  Another “core” member Mimi was engaged with many guest’s promoting her next 40+ romantic singles evening on Friday 11/21.  I was introduced to a “newbie” who I worked with at Unisys many years ago and of course, the irrepressible Donna Marino had to have her photo taken (yet again) for the website.

We had several newbies attend thanks to Kent Schmitt and Andrew Polcha (less the burn under the right eye from a few weeks ago) as well as Linda Martino who brought in a crowd.  David Mitchell from L3 again traveled the furthest (from Boston).  Is that a record, two consecutive events in a row?  Other memorable attendees included the RHT team of Mark & Shan, plus Sandy from SAIC, “Chief” (Dr. Earl Smith), Art Medici, Bob Meeker, Aparna Moondra, Chris Parker & many more (check the photos) .  Marcos, Medhi and crew behind the bar, as per usual did their terrific job to make sure we were served and not without beverages.  See you again and let’s keep up this high volume turnout trend going.
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