october events

[Spriggan]

lol.

I know EUOL and Kije are comeing.

And my friend Steve might come too, though he dosn't get off of work until after 5pm so he's not sure if he'd make it up in time.

[Fellfrosch]

She lives in California? The things you learn.

How about Prometheus and 42?

[Spriggan]

42 is out of town till monday,

not sure about Promethious, his been helping his brother renovate so I haven't seen him much in the past few days.

[House of Mustard]

My ailing wife has informed me that she would prefer that I stay with her, so I have to sadly bow out.  Have a Bucarific time!

[Brenna]

If the dinner was tonight, I could go, but we already have plans with Mr. M and his wife (and MsFish) for tomorrow night. So, alas, I will not be there. Sorry!  I'd love to try some other time--it's been forever since I've had the chance to see Skar!

[Entsuropi]

Rejecting your friends to go out with Mr Man? Oh dear...

[Fellfrosch]

So we're down a Mustard and up a EUOL and a Kije (and, presumably, Kije's wife). That puts us at 9 people, or 10 if Steve shows up (whoever that is). Not the enormous Buca party we've had in the past, but a fine one nonetheless. I'm sure any extra stragglers can be accomodated as well.

[EUOL]

I invited Morag and wife, so we might be up an orc or two.  (I'll remind them tonight.)

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Mr. Man deserves love, too, Entropy.

[Lieutenant Kije]

Ufortunately, Kije will not be there (nor his wife.)  We are both currently in a production of Fiddler on the Roof involving a performance tomorrow night.  
That is also the reason for my hellishly annoying beard.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I liked having a beard. At least, I did as soon as I learned to stop scratching it compulsively, thus irritating the skin beneath.

[Brenna]

heh. No, different Mr. M.

[Skar]

I too liked having a beard.  It itched after a week for another two weeks and then was just fun to have.

I once had a member of our AMF (the afghanis we were working with) tell me I had an Al Quaeda beard.  It was red, like some men from the more northerly part of the middle east, I kept it trimmed over my lips and ears and he thought I looked just like a member of Al Quaeda.  That was kind of wierd.

[House of Mustard]

I didn't know you could have a beard if you were active in the military...  (although I imagine that shaving facilities in Afghanistan were unreliable).  I guess I was wrong.

[Skar]

You're only allowed to have a beard in the active duty military if you are working with indigenous people who think that if you shave you are declaring your homosexual leanings.  Or if you've been in the field away from shaving facilities for so long that you grow one.  Thus it's mostly a Special Forces thing.

It was really fun having a beard on the few occasions that I was on the big base in Kandahar because all of the regular military guys think you're some ultra bad ass killer working directly for the CIA and give you wide clearance.  (Which in my case was only totally true part of the time;) )