Photos from Disclave, May 1997
Jim and I joined Brenda and Larry Clough for a celebration of our "close-to-mutual" 20th anniversaries (them - 5/21/77, us - 5/22/77).
Since money was almost no object, we went to the
Old Angler's Inn just outside of DC in Maryland along the
Potomac. That was the night of the torrential rainstorm in DC
so getting there and back was, well challenging. And then there
was the shallow but raging river that developed in the parking lot...
But the food was great and the
service was extremely attentive.
That morning, we'd awoken to this, ahem...example of the dangers
of practicing unsafe sex... (And so did the 500 other guests
of the hotel who were awoken by the fire alarm which went off
after a sprinkler was broken off by a couple of jerks!) This is
what between $40,000 and $100,000 of damage looks like at the lobby
level - but imagine the poor
folks in 303, directly under the room with the broken
sprinkler. The elevators were out for about 12 hours, but,
fortunately, the hotel is only 9 or 10 stories tall.
We were on 8.
I wound up doing something at that Disclave I hadn't done in years - I helped to write a filksong.