Well, I got to meet Mbo last week, in actual person. He looks like his photy, at least! We sang Castle of Dromore to my twins (the same song I sang with AllanC, BeauDangles, and Bill Sables at the start of TGMA - it's beginning to be a habit or something! Although I don't recall singing that one with Moonchild when we met--I think that's all the Mudcat members I've met in person--), but - and this was very strange to me, considering that we are both Star Trek fans, and seemed to have other interests and attitudes in common - there were NO other songs to which we both knew the words! But it was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed meeting him, talking in noncyberspace, and it allowed me some small Mucattery at the beginning of my vacation (11 days without a computer! It was TOUGH! I found myself just staring at other people's computers the few times I was in an actual house... wondering if I could sneak in and check the forum... but I didn't... hope I didn't miss anything much!

Anyway, I was wondering if other Mucatters had been surprised when they met each other, about what they did and didn't have in common, when the threads had led to certain expectations...

Other musical notes from the vacation: Sang The Bold Fisherman when Gulf fishing for, of course, the bold mackerel; sang Going down the Road Feeling Bad on the way home; sang East Virginia when en route to North Carolina; sang So Long It's Been Good to Know You when leaving my best-friend-from-college's house whose new wife really hates kids, to the point where she could not even be barely polite to mine; sang We've Come A Long Way when we hit the 1,000 mile mark on the odometer. Sang The Swimming Song (Roches) whenever the twins were in the pool. Basically sang loudly wherever I was... thanks, AllanC, for telling me to up the volume! It IS a lot better when you SING, rather than just kind of singing...

PS: And, thanks again, Mbo, for telling me about the Beirut memorial. Those of you who read my Bummed Out thread last April might recall him telling me about it. Daddy's name isn't on the wall, but we left flowers under the words They Came In Peace, and at one of the pear trees, picked kind of at random. We'll come through there annually, I think, as long as I vacation down there. Will tell more about any aspect of this thread if anyone is interested... I know there were a lot more songs I sang, but the reasons/places/times aren't coming to me right now...