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FOCM Pub Crawl Meeting Minutes
On February 22, 2014; the twice annual Wilmington Beer and Wine Walk (http://www.coolwilmington.com/) took place. Rather than go on that exact plan, we created our own. Some of the places were the same and some were new places we wanted to check out. A few pictures are shown below. Many people received their FOCM Card that night.
We started at the Blind Elephant and were joined there by Don and Carol Lewis, Chris Diehl, Polly Decker, Brian Frankel, Gayle Grandinetti, May Singh, Sheryl Browne, Angie Lee and Mike Berry. Surprise, surprise, but we ran into Trish Murray and her sister, Marlise and several of their friends who were doing the Wilmington Wine and Beer Walk. Trish is a member of the FOCM RTP chapter. We were later joined by Mike Byrd at Costello Piano Bar and he joined the group for dinner at 9 Bakery and Lounge. Mike received a handwritten FOCM membership card, written on a napkin or a scrap of paper, but he cherishes it just the same. When his probationary period is over, you can rest assured that he will get a true membership card. It was at this point that we began to lose a couple people at each stop, but there remained a core group who pushed on to The Duck and Dive, The Pour House and ended up at Cape Fear Wine and Beer. What’s interesting about Cape Fear Wine and Beer is they serve no beer that you see advertised on TV. All small brewery product from around the country.
Photo Caption Exercise
Okay, see if you can come up with a good caption for the picture below:
Two that have already been suggested are:
this is what happens when you eat a tree
only 2 more feet to go
Real lawsuit news story
seen on FOCM Member Christie Fry’s Facebook page
I saw on the Huffington Post that a couple in Michigan is being sued for $2 million after they burned down their apartment complex while trying to cook a squirrel with a blowtorch. I’m not an accountant, but it SOUNDS like they might not have $2 million.
FOCM RTP Chapter Meeting Minutes – February 19, 2014
We had a good turnout on February 19, 2014 at Trali in Brierdale Shopping center. Trali is an Irish pub with several RTP area locations. John Clark, Nick Macaulay, Mike Markowitz, Jeremy Zickus, Sherran Brewer and I know I am forgetting some people who were there. I know Alison Taber, nor Tricia Bland didn’t make it because they were either getting their hair or their nails done. That is an excuse that is only allowed once per FOCM year.
Invoices for membership may be sent out at the discretion of the organization founder.
Bathroom Graffiti
When I was in college, one of the architect students on our floor was quite the cartoonist. He had a series of drawings on the bathroom stalls. When I was in a bar in Wilmington, NC doing a pub crawl, I spotted this and instantly thought of Arturo and his works of art.
FOCM Meeting Minutes – February 18 2014
On February 18, a few of the RTP Chapter of FOCM members gathered at the Page Road Grill in Durham to welcome May Singh to town. May was in town for a conference and it as he likes to do, Chris (that’s me) organized a dinner for May to meet fellow FOCM-ians. We were joined that night by Gayle Grandinetti and Mike Burrows.
FOCM Meeting Minutes – January 29, 2014
January 29, 2014, while in town for the Outsourcing in Clinical Trials, Claudia Kunzler, Debbie McCoy and I had dinner in San Mateo at KingFish. We all ordered the special, whatever it was, I no longer remember, we had such a good time talking and laughing. While none of us are at ICON any longer, the friendships formed from that long working relationship are treasured, indeed.
Networking with the departed
Here I am networking with Marilyn Monroe:
Side effects of dog food diet
contributed by FOCM Member Art Coppola
Yesterday I was at Sam’s Club, buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Owen , the Wonder Dog and was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.
What, did she think I had an elephant?
So, on impulse, I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn’t, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I’d lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a Perfect Diet and that the way that it works is, to load your pants pockets with Purina Nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete, (certified), so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.) Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care, because the dog food poisoned me.
I told her no, I had stopped to pee on a fire hydrant and a car hit me.