Well, for reasons that are not entirely clear, the Left Coast User's Group/DataCAD 30th Birthday came together and was a spectacular success.
The evening started off with James Horecka informing us that Kendrick Bang Kellogg was claiming not to be the architect for this particular Chart House contrary to information on the always accurate Internet. The building is still quite spectacular and has held up very well considering it’s 1970’s era construction date.
We had an absolutely post card day with views all the way to San Diego (about 60 miles)
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A brief cocktail session before dinner. This was taken just before Jennifer and Mark arrived, much to everyone’s surprise.
I knew that they were going to be in the area on a personal vacation, and moved the date of the event to April 2nd just in case they decided to make the 1 hour drive north to join us.
Mark had told me about 2 weeks prior that they would not be able to make it, so I was blown away when I looked over and saw them.
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There was not a formal agenda or program other than to share stories and twist Mark’s arm about wish list items, etc.
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George Robertson wound up with a free lunch because his trip from Seattle was the longest by far – he took the Coast Starlight from Seattle which is 36 hours one way.
Jennifer and Mark were treated to dinner and cocktails for coming the furthest and surprising the heck out of all of us.
Bill Elder brought a geologist friend of his (Paul Stoffer) along to make sure the restaurant would not slide down the bluff.
Rod Jeheber won the latest arrival award (dang client meetings) which meant that he was stuck with the check. To avoid this “award”, he was also the first to depart.
Roger Wolff treated us all to wine made from his own vineyard in Napa. I am not a wine guy but the others were very impressed.
Bruce Chitea and I were reacquainted after 30 years – he gave me my first hands on demonstration and tutorial on DataCAD 2.5f in 1985.
Thanks to James Horecka for the excellent photos including the low-light group shots.
Carol Buehrens is writing up a more comprehensive summary of the evening.
The group photos and additional shots are available at:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qq8mgmqeruoblji/oUw5yqbdZ9https://www.dropbox.com/s/95vaamrlpa8jdb0/DataCAD%20Left%20Coast%20Users%20Group%2004-02-14.pdf