Schmoozed with Randoms

On October twenty-fourth I wrote that I left late the day a before because the party was at 7.  I rode to PHill and got off at Embarcadero.  I got the bike and went to 3rd and Mission and ate at the Grove.  I checked email and etc.  My twitter friend texted me and I went to fifth and Mission to Impact Hub.  I talked to a few people and for a while just schmoozed with randoms.  There were a couple of ladies from Oakland transportation agencies.  I had gotten an extra beer for her because the line was so long.  When she came in I let her stay at the door for a while and once I figured out that she was done there I left my new friends and gave it to her.

I left her then and tried to make do on my own.  I talked to a couple of students.  One with Transform I had met at CFHH and the other a student of a professor I knew.  I talked to a couple of guys from MTA and Seattle and saw a few I knew pretty well.  I ended up in a conversation with a guy who had gone to schools that rivaled my own. He was an engineer with MTA.  I went for a second beer and eventually decided to return to interact with my twitter friend.  She seemed to have been talking to a planner from Orange County for a while.  He and I had a lot in common—having worked on cycling projects in Long Beach.  I introduced them to a friend from a planning agency.

There were awards and I started interacting with a lawyer friend.  The OC Planner went away and my I gravitated to interact with the MTA guys one of whom was moving to NY in November.  I met his friends—one of which was a past chair of YPT.  When my twitter friend approached us the conversation had turned to meeting up in a few weeks and we ruminated on the venue—the Inner Sunset had a great Shaanxi restaurant.  We also talked about CFHH.  My lawyer friend introduced me to someone from Folks for Polk.  My twitter friend and I left then.

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