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As part of my "Week of doing way too much after work", I hit the DC Blogger Meetup in Adams Morgan on Wednesday night.

I was a bit unsure of what to expect. See, I don't do the whole "MeetUp" thing often at all. Usually (and this is the case with DC Bloggers as well), I hear about an event from someone I know or meet at another event and it just happens to be organized through the MeetUp site.

As with the rest of my life, I don't really need to go looking for stuff--it comes along and I just show up.

Usually, things turn out pretty good.

And that seems to hold true with this group.

Good bunch of people. Interesting stories. Well written blogs. And all interested in learning new stuff. I think I'll make it a point to show up next month, too.

Now I just have to find the time to read the new blogs I've come across...

I took the "scenic route" back to a metro station from Adams Morgan. Usually, I hike down 18th Street to Dupont Circle. This time I thought I'd switch things up a little and head for the Adams Morgan/Woodley Park/Zoo station.

About two turns in, I realized I was on the wrong street to connect up. But it was a comfortable enough evening and I had plenty of time and I kind of knew where the different streets went... so I just kind of wandered forward.

Eventually, I ended up on Connecticut Avenue, right at the Cleveland Park Metro. Yeah, a little bit out of my way... and oh-so-tempting to pick up tickets to to the 11-ish showing of the new Harry Potter and meet some friends who already planned on going.

If I had done that, though, I wouldn't have been able to get home as both the Metro and the buses to my apartment would have stopped running by the time the film was over.

So, home I went. Satisfied that I had both met some good new people and gotten my exercise for the week. (Though there is a trip to a club planned for Saturday... so there will probably be dancing along with the normal friend's birthday hoopla... making this a very, very active week.)

Tomorrow night it's Refresh DC where I'll be learning about the future of HTML and CSS.