Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

I organized a Seattle-area Friends of Captain Awkward meetup for today, and it went very well, I think: seven or eight people (I can't remember now whether the "seven" included myself) talking for a couple of hours (though one left early) about a variety of things. One turned out to be someone I vaguely knew from Usenet days, and used to see on LJ occasionally; another I remembered from her posts to the Captain's blog; and there was at least one woman who decided to come to the meetup despite not having delurked.

During the organizing, at least two people said things along the lines of "I wish I could, but that specific day won't work because…" But when we were actually there, two other people said they wouldn't have been able to make it, but were in town for the day (from Olympia and Anacortes, respectively).

The tea at Bauhaus wasn't as good as the last couple of times I've been in (I think the water wasn't quite hot enough this time), so for my second cup I had chai, which was fine. The place was also less crowded than I expected from the previous meetup there; we started earlier, and it was quite a bit less crowded by the time we were ready to leave. If I organize the next one, I may try starting at 3:30 instead of 2:30; on the other hand, we ended when we did because people had plans for later on. The other downside of Bauhaus as a location is that there are only a few small tables downstairs, and no elevator; I'd forgotten exactly how small the downstairs was, and had been hoping to find space there. So it's convenient in the sense of easy to get to (Capitol Hill, lots of nearby bus stops), but not accessible for anyone who has problems with stairs. I think I will ask for more accessible suggestions for the future.