Never fear! My photos will finally be ready this evening! I finished the film in my camera this week-end, but the photo place had computer problems and so the film wasn’t ready yesterday. So those photos will be scanned tonight!
I also had a great time at the dopefest, though I wasn’t in the happiest of moods since I had mistakenly double-booked us and the lovely Mrs. W. attended a separate event. I need to be more careful about writing things down in my datebook.
I arrived right at dinner time (I missed the bowling alley fun because we had a real estate agent at our house and she just couldn’t stop talking! :mad:) but I arrived right at the start of dinner. I sat next to the great SPOOFE Bo Diddly and had the privilege of perusing his art portfolio. This is a very talented young man, and I have no doubt that one day we will see his name in teeny-tiny type at the end of a comic book. Or maybe even in big type at the beginning of an animated feature!
I only learned after the fact, upon reading the boards, that SPOOFE Bo Diddly and Monster104 are brothers. I never would have guessed that upon seeing them in person, since one looks like the embodiment of evil and the other is a clean-cut presentable young man. I leave it to the alert reader to decide which is which.
In my immediate vicinity were Esprix, who showed off his magnificient custom-made T-shirt, KKBattousai, AudreyK and CowboyGreg. Esprix was very quiet and subdued, not at all what I expected. 
He did remind me of my moderator duties in the course of the evening when I was asked to intervene and shut down some discussions that were taking an unsuitable turn (“close this thread, Mr. Moderator!”) And KKBattousai and AudreyK were friendly and smiling. KKBattousai tried to explain to me the meaning of his username, but the chocolate egg cream I was drinking must have dulled my senses, because I didn’t quite get it (some character from Japanese anime? but I don’t know which film) I expected AudreyK to jump up on the table and scream “Yee-ha!” while firing a pistol (loaded with blanks) in the air, but I suppose that she keeps that behaviour for the SDMB. CowboyGreg once again failed to wear a 10-gallon stetson, but I forgive him because he told a funny joke (at least I think it was him, and I wish I could remember the joke, because it would have y’all rolling in the aisles.) Johnny LA was also in the immediate vicinity, sporting a brand-new something on his lower lip that I imagine he is trying to pass off as a goatee?!? Of course after all the big talk about the purchase of a vintage Jeep, the vehicle was nowhere to be seen, so the jury is still out on whether that vehicle exists.
During the course of dinner I had a chance to chat with Melin, Shayna, Shayna’s sister banana, Phouka, Ashtar, and did a quick round to shake the hands of the people at the other end, but unfortunately didn’t get to chat with Wrenchr or Anamorphic. Melin and I commiserated over the passing of Dr. Watson (RIP Doc) and we mentioned the irony of Shayna aka. Ms. Peoplepages not wanting to have her picture taken. I also have a shot of her, but she threatened me with the direst of consequences should the picture appear on a website. banana (Shayna’s sister) mentioned how her friend of the moment is an FBI agent in charge of espionage cases, so please be nice to Shayna unless you want the feds to give you grief. Phouka came over to say hello and Ashtar and I chatted a little bit about computers.
That’s it for now. Thank you again everybody for coming to the Dopefest, and next time we will have to have a second venue in mind for when dinner breaks up. We should not be going home before the cows!
P.S. In a picture you see SPOOFE Bo Diddly beating me at arm-wrestling. What SPOOFE neglected to mention is that on my second attempt, when he used his left hand and I used both hands, I vanquished him easily. 
P.P.S. Thank you all for the kind compliments on my appearance. Terry Gilliam? I’ve heard Ozzy Osborne before. But how sad I feel that people didn’t see me in my prime, when I was young and skinny. In those days I was once compared to Mark Hammill.
techchick68, thank you for the offer, but every time I discuss with Mrs. W. the possibility of me going off and having affairs with other beautiful women, she ixnays the idea, even though I assure her that it would only be meaningless sex and she’s the one I love. 
And Shayna didn’t want to have her picture taken because she had a huge piece of spinach stuck in her teeth and she couldn’t get rid of it. 