My quick fingers hit CTRL-Enter, which sent the email, before I hit CTRL-V to paste in the link. Here is the YouTube playlist link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJmO5rrD6Ss&list=PL0pV_JrZJiXPKJms8RfQmdHEZk... On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 12:30 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Thanks for sharing that Jeff! This is one of the main reasons that I go through the headache of running this show: to deliver happiness to those who come to the show in many ways. To see everyone connecting and socializing. In my opinion, that's the essence of the show, a festival, a coming together of like minded individuals to share, celebrate and enjoy all that we have in common.
I can see that you have received the festival spirit and spread it to others!
Jeff Brace
On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 12:18 AM Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I met up with folks I know from so many other groups/associations/groups
- David from Unigroup (NYC's oldest Unix/Linux user group) http://unigroup.org/ - Murph from NJ Linux https://www.meetup.com/NJLinux/ - Chris Liendo, Brian Cirulnick, Saul Trabal from the NY anime club https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Cartoon/Fantasy_Organization - many members of the anthropomorphic community
I'm VCF's unofficial tummler ( https://www.wordnik.com/words/tummler ), schmoozing with everybody ( https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/schmooze ). I did my best to be a catalyst to great conversations among folks and direct them to things they'd enjoy. I had lotsa one-on-one quality time with everyone, particularly those I helped load their cars.
Everyone saw me delivering heavy items all around. It's hard to be serious when using a genuine Radio Flyer little red wagon https://www.radioflyer.com/shop/all-terrain-wagons.html
Believing that few things are truly "off topic", I had toys for kids in the free pile (and saw very happy kids playing with them), and sold a lot of the Playable Metal toys (Tinkertoy for big kids).
This is my 10th year of printing the exhibitor/vendor signs (since 2014). I hope they made all the exhibitors & vendors feel welcome and appreciated.
-- jeff jonas