First and foremost, welcome back Buck! You were missed! Good to hear that you enjoyed your vacation.

Second, my apologies for not posting earlier. Our internet has been off-line at home all weekend, and I've had to wait for down-time at work to catch up. We had a very nice blogmeet Saturday at Greyfriars.

The first person I met there was Michael Kelley, perhaps the most senior Chattanooga blogger present, having been represented since 2000, and before the term "blog" became current. He mentioned another mentionable Chattanooga blog, Oblogation, by Evie Dumonde, who couldn't make it to the meet because of an illness in the family. Hat's off to Michael.

Shortly after, the inimitable Alice arrived, with her sunny, smiling face. Right behind her came Adam of UTC College Democrats.

We heard from JosiahQ of Irresponsible Journalism, who wants to revive previous efforts at a (singular) "Chattablog".

I was pleased to meet in real life Sandy Lusk, co-author with Alice of Hamdems blog, and famed Kos diarist, and her son, Scooter.

I was also glad to make the acquaintance of Mesh, city editor of the Chattanooga Pulse, and contributor to the Pulse Blog.

Finally (finally!) I had a chance to meet Joe Lance of Chattanooga-Hamilton Civic Forums. I had an uncanny feeling that I knew him before, and he said the same of me... but I cannot put my finger on where that might have been. Apparently, we haven't had many opportunities for our paths to cross.

Last, but not least, the smijer family was twice represented, as Mrs. Smijer of Baskets of Blessings joined us, too.

A good time was had by all, except anyone who didn't. We enjoyed sampling from the menu at Greyfriar's, talking about blogging software and website development (Josiah mentioned a web-site development competition of some kind that will be held in Chattanooga this year), told embarrassing stories about ourselves (and in one case, our husbands), and got to know one another.

There's talk of trying to do another one of these in the fall... maybe at Josiah's place, where beer and barbecue can be had.

I'll call the blogmeet a success (even if no one else does), and I'm grateful that we had some good turnout and some smart folks to spend the time with.