Wiscon roommate/share for Thursday night?

ETA: This is solved, thank you beable. ( this is basically what I just posted to the LJ and DW Wiscon comms )

Last-minute socializing

There was a post on the Vanguard list yesterday afternoon saying that Rob Hansen was arriving from London on his way to Corflu (in Portland, Ore., this weekend), and if people wanted to see him, meet at a brewpub that evening. Then a follow-up mentioned that Sandra Bond was also likely to be there; I haven't seen either of them in years (it's been ages since I went to England, other than that brief visit to my mother when her husband died), and was particularly looking forward to a chance to talk to Sandra.

I ran the idea past cattitude, who agreed that it seemed like a good idea, and pointed out how little socializing we'd been doing. So we took a couple of buses out to Lake City, and spent a bit over an hour catching up with a few people. A few of the locals said things along the lines of "what are you doing here?" or "I didn't expect you"; apparently I hadn't done nearly as good a job of letting my Seattle-area friends and acquaintances know we're now in Bellevue as I'd hoped.

Bellevue is an hour from Lake City by bus, more than that if you miss a connection, as we did om the way back; we spent significantly more time in transit than at the pub, but I'm willing to do that now and then, since part of what we get by living in Bellevue is a much shorter commute for Cattitude. (Our specific location in downtown Bellevue is also handy to a small but important list of things, including a supermarket and the library.)

It would have been nice to get to Corflu myself, but the timing didn't quite work. There's a slight chance I'll get to see Sandra next weekend, but that's very much up in the air.