<tentative> E2 Decaversary shall be celebrated in Melbourne nodermeet-style.
<OldMiner> tentative: That is pretty swanky. Will there be hats?
<tentative> OldMiner, who knows, maybe!
<tentative> If you want there to be hats, we could make there be hats.
<OldMiner> Will there be a writeup with guest lists and a really long title and aspersions cast about non-attendees?
<OuT2FaR> oldminer, there will be and it will be chinged more times over than any other write up.

So here is the writeup with guest lists and a really long title and aspersions cast about non-attendees. And hats.

It's a birthday party, full of wonder and joy and there will be hats. And you are invited to this awesometastic noder-party-meet full of LOVE! Yes, that's right, full of the stuff!

First, please take note, I'm going to be there and I'm going to be crazy-weird because I'll have finished thirteen years of high school just days before. Which is uber-awesome and it is completely understandable that I'll have been sent into a crazy tizzy of joy. So that is one reason for the nodermeet. Most teenagers go to schoolies week, but I have instead decided to convince a friend to join me in spending some time with you people. This may or may not turn out to be A Very Bad Idea.

Also, in case you died and missed the memo, Everything2 is turning ten years old! A whole decade! I remember my tenth birthday, all the aunts and the grannies standing around saying "you're so grown up" and "double digits now" and it made me feel special. I probably still have a birthday card lying around here somewhere... But anyways.

Where: BlackPawn's house, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Southern Hempisphere
When: Saturday, November 14, 2009, starting at 1pm. Yeah, it's not the day that E2 turns the big one-oh, but I assume that people have jobs and lives and things, so Saturday is easier.

BlackPawn willingly has offered his humble abode for the main event. He says he has a BBQ, which should provide entertainment for the pyromaniacs who attend, and also allow us to cook foods. It is about 10 minutes walk from the tram line, and near the tram stop is a supermarket, just in case someone mugged you and stole all the food that you brought with you originally. Because you did bring food, sharing is caring.

There shall be hats (bring your own or make one, unless I get party hats, which may happen), there shall be cake, and there shall be laughter. Even if I have to beat the giggles out of you. We'll then laze around talking until we get sick of each other, and wander off back to the places from whence we came.

What to bring

• A hat
• Food
• Drink
• Other things you think would easily entertain a noder
• (Your idea here?)

Those who come bearing hats!

• tentative shall be there, barring a freak accident
• tentative's non-noder friend willingly submitted to joining the festivities
• BlackPawn offered his house, I assume he will also attend
• Viki. thinks he has a baseball cap lying around
• A hatted Meezzio is going to grace the meet with his presence
• waverider37 shall be hatted

Those who profess to have hats

• Unbeknownst to him, Deejah may have a hat

Those who are hatless

• OldMiner would have to trade in his hat to make it, which would defeat the purpose
• Dimview has no hat, but mentioned something about a nodermeet for dwarves
• Moosemanmoo cannot think of a way to transport his hats Down Under
• Oolong confessed that bringing himself plus hat would pose difficulties, and so shall refrain from attending

Aftermath (and chemistry, and biology, and english literature, and...)

There were hats, and there was cake, and there was a new user.

I met Viki. at Flinders Street Station, underneath the clocks (it's a Melburnian thing) at about a quarter to twelve. From there, we took a tram to BlackPawn's house in Brunswick West, basically meeting each other along the way. I didn't know too much about anybody except a few chats on Facebook and Skype with Viki. and tentative. With that somewhat daunting prospect in mind, we met BlackPawn, and soon there followed tentative and tentative's friend, whom is now CrimsonRose.

We chatted. Essentially we took the time to get to know each other, have lunch, and a cake. The nodermeet was all about E2's tenth anniversary, after all (as well as tentative's departure from high school for good). I learned a little about their lives, they learned a little about mine. Suddenly, we were no longer total strangers. We were now linked to each other, through E2 obviously, but also through simple talking.

Lunch was snags, salad and chicken drumsticks, followed by coffee for BlackPawn and CrimsonRose, which was in turn followed by the latter joining the site. We recorded a little section for the podcast, then tentative and CrimsonRose had to head off, so it pretty much finished after that. Extra thanks to tentative for organising it, and to BlackPawn for use of his house. A big "wish-you-were-here" goes out to Meezzio and Deejah, who couldn't be with us, and congratulations to everyone else at E2 for being there on the decaversary.