September 02, 2004
Universal 2004 - another success!
Posted by Jess in
Day to Day
The 2nd Annual Lotus bloggers meetup was again a rousing success!
Returning this year was myself, Matt, Joe Litton and his wife Shirley and son Ben, Julian Robichaux, and John Vaughn. Among the new attendees were Rob McDonagh and Mac Guidera.
From the "celebrity bloggers" corner, we seem to have guest appearances from Ron Livingston (of Office Space fame) and Joey Fatone from NSync. Oh never mind, it's just Matt and Julian (who both get mistaken for the two, relatively, on a regular basis).
Even the friendly server got into this one! The neat thing was, the chef was still here who made Matt some great wings last year. Matt asked for him, and he was still there, and remembered Matt and made him some more.
Matt is the KING of the arm-extended camera shot.
As always, a good time was had, and hopefully there will be many more next year, which will probably be in Chicago from the buzz going around.
Speaking of buzzes going around, Joe graciously had us do a tequila shot Friday night. Well, Sunday night, Matt and I were in Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville bar at CityWalk, which is right down the street from Pat O' Briens.
The band playing was excellent, they were very energetic and played the typical songs you'd hear at a wedding reception to get everyone dancing and having fun. The problem? No one was dancing, and short of Matt and myself, no one looked like they were having any fun. There were probably half the tables full in the whole place.
So what else do you do when you want to liven up the place a bit? A round of tequila shots for myself, Matt, and the band, of course. They enjoyed it, and during their first break, the bass player came out and sat down with us and said thanks and we started talking.
Here's the first really cool bit... turns out the band, The Kyle Henderson Project (fronted by Kyle Henderson, formerly of The Producers) was the same band that played at the LotusSphere party during the Superbowl. He seemed to think that no one was listening to them, they were all watching the SuperBowl. So I'm trying to find a blog in which someone talked about the fact that there was a band playing, I thought it would be kind of neat to email it to them.
Anyway, here's the second really cool bit: Kyle Henderson, the lead singer, until about three years ago when he started gigging full time, was a Lotus Notes developer!
The funny thing was that the place was still pretty dead, but when the band came back on for their next set, he's at the mike and he yells, "how many Lotus Notes developers we got in this place tonight?" Matt and I cheered, and we and the band all had a good laugh. No one else got it, but we were having fun.
The people in front of us seemed to be having fun, they started dancing, and the people to the right of us looked like they were having fun laughing at my facial expressions every time I had a shot of tequila, so when the band took their next break, we all sort of joined to do introductions and form a large table. When the band came back out, at first they looked disappointed as it looked like we all left (the people that were actually having fun, it seemed) but then laughed when they noticed we had all joined forces.
So once again, fun is what you make of it. And it's not like anyone in Orlando knows who we are. At least I hope not. :-P
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the next one simply must be in Chicago.
:)
Well, there's only so many times I'm willing to put up with people giving me screen names and passwords like "Noblog", "getablog", "yrnublogging" before I get up some resolve and do something about it.
