{"id":787,"date":"2006-10-16T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T14:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/10\/16\/new-faces-new-places\/"},"modified":"2006-10-16T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T14:07:06","slug":"new-faces-new-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/10\/16\/new-faces-new-places\/","title":{"rendered":"New Faces, New Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was chock full of meeting new people and going to new places. On Friday night, I got together with Randy and my friends, Jason, Bryan and Marin to play that card game I learned last week: Hands and Feet. We soon discovered, thanks to Marin, that this game is a derivation of Canasta. A good time (and a few bottles of wine) was had by all.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Randy and I drove out to Concord to do some leaf peeping. It seems that we were about a week past prime in those parts, but me managed to get some good photos at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the Old North Bridge and downtown Concord:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"436\" alt=\"Concord MA Octoberot 2006 021.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Concord%20MA%20Octoberot%202006%20021.jpg\" width=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"418\" alt=\"Concord MA Octoberot 2006 090.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Concord%20MA%20Octoberot%202006%20090.jpg\" width=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"387\" alt=\"Concord MA Octoberot 2006 036.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Concord%20MA%20Octoberot%202006%20036.jpg\" width=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"424\" alt=\"Concord MA Octoberot 2006 008.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Concord%20MA%20Octoberot%202006%20008.jpg\" width=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Concord MA Octoberot 2006 103.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Concord%20MA%20Octoberot%202006%20103.jpg\" width=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"395\" alt=\"Concord MA Octoberot 2006 117.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Concord%20MA%20Octoberot%202006%20117.jpg\" width=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Concord MA Octoberot 2006 163.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Concord%20MA%20Octoberot%202006%20163.jpg\" width=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"419\" alt=\"Concord MA Octoberot 2006 167.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Concord%20MA%20Octoberot%202006%20167.jpg\" width=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"368\" alt=\"Concord MA Octoberot 2006 177.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Concord%20MA%20Octoberot%202006%20177.jpg\" width=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"331\" alt=\"Concord MA Octoberot 2006 168.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2006\/10\/Concord%20MA%20Octoberot%202006%20168.jpg\" width=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That night, I stayed home and played on the computer (mostly\u00a0searching for\u00a0condos&#8230;more on that later). On Sunday, I headed out to the most recent Gay Boston Bloggers event. This may have been the most well-attended event yet (though, the one at Sean and Jeff&#8217;s place might have had a few more folks&#8230;.I can&#8217;t recall). Ironically (or, what has seemed to become more typical) the Gay Boston Bloggers Group met in great outer surburbia. It&#8217;s shocking how few of the Gay Boston Bloggers are actually gay <strong>Boston<\/strong> bloggers. Some great food was brought in &#8211; particularly some shrimp\/pasta confection by Will and some crack cookies (I had 14) from Chris.<\/p>\n<p>That evening, I headed over to Randy&#8217;s place for dinner with him and two of his best friends. The meal was southern themed with fried green tomatoes, fried chicken and roasted potatoes. Brownies followed for dessert. Needless to say, with two servings of potluck, 14 cookies, a fried dinner and 3 (or was it 4?) brownies, I went to bed feeling like the skin around my belly was being stretched to the max. (but it was worth it&#8230;yum).<\/p>\n<p>OK &#8211; and real estate. I&#8217;ve decided (as of last night&#8230;this could change tomorrow) that I&#8217;ll keep on looking for a condo &#8211; but I have\u00a0limited myself to fulfilling criteria I know I&#8217;d be happy with in the short-term AND long-term. That means the place must be within a block or two of the subway, it must be top floor (no upstairs neighbors), and it must be below a certain amount of money (in order to also maintain a pleasurable quality of life). There is no urgency (except to get away from that horrific new upstairs neighbor of mine) so it could take make days, weeks, months or years. I&#8217;ll know the right place when I find it. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was chock full of meeting new people and going to new places. On Friday night, I got together with Randy and my friends, Jason, Bryan and Marin to play that card game I learned last week: Hands and Feet. 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