I would like to thank all of you that came to SFO to join Rudi and me for dinner. Many of you congratulated me on winning the contest, but what I really won was dozens of new friends.

Some of you walked, others took mass transit or drove, and the rest of us flew (and collected yet even more miles) to Dgolds' home and then to dinner. It was all wonderful.

You all made my first planned FT event a truly wonderful experience. (My actual first quasi-FT event was the Secret Society of Flyer Talk Women, but that was an impromptu gathering.) Can an ORD gathering be far behind? Well, it does have to be after winter is over. But the idea inspires me.