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A week ago I went, with Sheila, to the gathering of some of the local bloggers, and real journalist Linda Seebach of the RMN. It was at the Breckenridge Brewery catty corner to Coors Field, which was an OK spot. There is a whole 'nother group of bloggers in the area who call themselves the Rocky Mountain Alliance (two of whom I met in Republican Heaven) but I doubt they were aware of the party. (The organizing powers might think of fixing that in the future). I had a good time. Ruled on the pool table (because hardly anyone else played) and lost at darts to Sheila (of the unconventional style) and Zombyboy, who seemed happy to be a winner. There was some drinking going on.

There is a hierarchy of bloggers. We had two of the first tier--Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom and Suave Steve Green of Vodkapundit-- who have families but do not seem to have a day job and blog a lot, well and are famous at least in the blogging set. Vodkapundit was the quintessential new dad, and went home fairly sober and early to his wife down for the count with a bad headcold. As soon as Goldstein's handsome family left, he veered in and out of control--leading sing-alongs of bad 80s songs, yelling at the group. It was good to hear that he loved me--right back at ya', Jeff. Those of the second tier, those with established blogs and day jobs and usually families and pretty good daily visit numbers despite the fact they write only one or two things a day, were organizing the thing and are good guys if perhaps too rigidly libertarian for my tastes. I'm in the third tier with double digit daily numbers but not famous or established but with a day job and family.

All in all a good time; good to meet and talk to other people. I hope we have a late Spring one on the roof of a LoDo drinking place.