Jonathan, it’s lovely of you to put him up. Thank you very much!
Iampunha, you twit, CALL HOME NEXT TIME. Yes, I am yelling. I can’t wait until you have kids just like you! 
Glad I could set your mind at ease! Hey, I’m a parent, too.
Gobear, boy, I don’t think I’ve been described at ‘sweet’ for at least thirty years! I bask in your approval. Thanks to you and Matt (whom I once called ‘Mike’ to my shame) for coming. It was great to meet you finally.
Lucretia, N4S, I’m glad you had a good time. We enjoyed throwing the party. Wheee!
I had a terrific time too and it was great fun meeting everybody, especially Nacho4Sara and moi! Looking forward to the next one already!
(Were you hinting that you were going to move, Jonathan?)
Tack = thanks to Jonathan Chance and Mrs. Chance.
It was fun to go to a Hallowen party for the first time for me.
I hope I’ll see some pictures from the party,
because I did see that some took that.
The one I do wish I had is Montfort in my dress,
I missed to take a picture of him at home in that.
He was so cute in it.
He was awful cute. Must be why he got groped so much.
All I can say is I had a fuckin’ blast.
And bouv, that_darn_cat and moi rock. Utterly. With a cherry on top.
Well, maybe flowers;)
Man, I had a great time - been too long since I saw everyone. Thanks, Nate and Eileen, for throwing one hell of a party!
Geobabe, I can’t take credit for all the change; in fact, I wasn’t even the first to add small change to your collection. (I can’t remember who I was copycatting - probably Weirddave or Bluesman. :))
Lucretia, you were truly babe-a-licious in your harem outfit! Too bad I never wound up between you and Geo; as Weirddave (in his Jesus costume) said, “It’s good to be King of Kings!”
I groped Montfort’s boobies!
moi and that_darn_cat, I’m glad you drove down from Pittsburgh - it was a special pleasure to talk with you guys.
Also had a great time talking with John Corrado, who’s not enlisting in the military, the lovely Rebecca (who needs to get a SN and join this crazy crowd!), Nacho4Sara, iampunha, and too many others to remember right now, so don’t feel left out if I didn’t name you. At my age, the memory starts to go. 
Awww, gee, thanks RT.
I still ended up with less money in my bra than Geobabe had in her cleavage, though. I guess I need to squoosh 'em together more next time.
I’m tellin’ ya, Lucretia, maximum boobage is the way to go. You saw how fast they all jumped up when I said, “Hey, when is everybody going to put money in my bra?” Our host didn’t even notice my legs until very late in the festivities.
Well, I know why I was so tired at the dopefest - I woke up today (at noon) with a sinus infection. Yuck, yuck, yuck!
I don’t want to say specific things to anyone, because I always leave someone out and feel bad, but I mist say that gobear is one of the wisest, kindest, most intelligent men I’ve ever met and I am grateful that we had so much in common and thus had much to talk about. Also, Matt is an asbolute sweetheart and I hope he registers ASAP. John Corrado was exactly as I pictured him - a perfect gentlemen with a killer sense of humor; his storytelling ability is matched only by Zappo, who had a lot more fun in college than yours truly.
And Geobabe, I wanna be just like you when I grow up. I have the cleavage already; I just don’t know how to mash it together and make it look so perky.
Anniz and moi are absolutely adorable and I hope to see both of you at future Dopefests.
Every last one of you was wonderful and I’m so glad I got to see you guys again.
Oh yeah, bouv, you better go to the NY Dopefest! I’m holding you to it!
Thanks again to Nate, Eileen, Baby Kate (the cutest child I’ve ever seen in my life), Velocity and Calvin for having us all over. Also thanks to Aguecheek and Stephanie for going out of their way to pick me up.
I think I’m giving Spritle an opportunity here…
Neidhart, thanks for coming. It was good to see you. And yes, we’re thinking of moving (if we can find the right place).
Anniz, it was wonderful to meet you. Who’da guessed we’d be the one’s to bring the joy of Halloween costuming to you? It’s an honor!
And we have at least on digital pic of Montfort in your dress? I didn’t realize. But he was a cutie, wasn’t he?
The pix will be up when we d/l them and design a page for them. Between Lady Chance and I we took more than 50 pix yesterday. The blackmail letters will be going out shortly.
iampunha, when I bum around my house at 6 in the morning I certainly didn’t expect you to still be around and coherent. You’re a strange one, lad.
that_darn_cat, did I scare you coming around the porch in pitch darkness at 5AM today? It occured to me how weird that could seem.
RTF, I always appreciate seeing you. It was good, towards the end, to have someone who could identify with my post-30 ways. Those kids were…well…young, weren’t they?
And I’m watching the game right now and the Redskins are ahead in the first two minutes! What’s up with that?
N4S, allow me to express my deepest sympathies for your loss. Whether you knew it or not there’s an entire two pound bag of Tootsie Pops in our kitchen that never even got opened. I feel your pain!
So who’s looking forward to the next one?
I do believe that’s the sweetest thing anybody’s said to me in recent memory. Anyways, all you need is a good push-up bra, get those puppies elevated. The rest is attitude.
Geobabe - maybe I should buy a Wonderbra. But they’re so big anyway, so I try to downplay them in hopes that no one will notice (black is my friend.) I don’t even own that many low-cut shirts - I think maybe two. Plus it kind of bugs me when guys talk to them like they’ll answer.
But I’ll work on the attitude. I definitely need some more of that.
Man, I didn’t eat nearly enough candy! Baby Kate is going to be snacking on chocolate well into her teen years what with all the candy you guys had. I feel a definite sense of loss that I didn’t stuff most of it into my purse before I left.
But I did get to eat some excellent Cheesesteak! Mad props to the Ultimate Cheesesteak chef Airman Doors and the lucky women who gets to eat his cheesesteak, MsRobyn.
I really didn’t mean that the way it sounded. Oops.
If you didn’t I certainly did.
On the subject of the extra candy…it’s not like we’ll eat it. I’ll drop it on my staff tomorrow morning.
The house is mostly cleaned up now. We’re looking at 4 hefty bags of trash and about 12 bags of recycling I’ve got to take down to Hillsboro sometime um, today.
Heh.
Go Redskins!
I know I certainly am - it looks like lurker and I missed out on a good 'un. All day yesterday, we were saying “You know, right now, we would be doing this if we were going to Chance’s. sigh” or “The festivities have started. I wonder who’s there already. sigh”
If we have to walk from NY to your place, Nate, I’m going to make sure we make it there for the next one!
I’m just hoping he left the ‘special sauce’ off, yesterday evening…
::D&R like hell::
Anniz, I will be more than happy to email you a photo of you two in your Halloweeniest finery. As soon as I get 'em downloaded I’ll shoot a copy off to you.
Zap!
Johnathan and Lady Chance, thank you for a wonderful time. It was fantastic to finally put some faces with the names, and the hospitality was five-star all the way.
moi, if that_darn_cat ever takes leave of his senses to the point where you’re single again give me a call, m’kay? You rock the freakin’ Casbah. Next time my job drags me out to the 'burgh maybe the three of us can join up for dinner or something and turn it into a mini-Dopefest.
Nacho4Sara, you flatter me. Please, keep going. It’s been a loooooong time since somebody as cute as you flattered me.
It was great to meet all of you and I’m looking forward to the next mid-Atlantic Dopefest with bated breath. Maybe I should stop eating bait. (Hah! Beat ya to it, RTFirefly!)
Zap!
Who got in on the fun with Geobabe but is too much of a gentleman to mention it. And modest too.
I second that notion.
We both had a great time, thanks again JC!