I and an old Army musician buddy are traveling to the annual Association of Military Musicians reunion in Columbia, SC and thought it would be a fabulous idea to stop and visit debk and her family, have a truly stupendous meal, and otherwise meet face-to-face since we began this internet forum thing back in 2004? or 2005?
A bunch of us including debk sorta hobnobbed on the forums on military.com until the screaming liberals, heavy-handed modding, and really crappy software prompted a rather large exodus from the shithole over to the creation of usmilnet.com by Rebel, Thor, et. al.
usmilnet.com is largely a Coastie forum now, still in good hands, but I think it's fair to say that CC has become the preferred venue for those of us who made that exodus out of the aforementioned shithole.
All that said, it was GREAT to finally meet face-to-face and enjoy some of deb's famous cooking. She did up some pork loins with a peach bbq sauce and other fixin's that was deelish.
My musician buddy and I were so grateful we broke out the horns and played some Lennie Niehaus jazz duets.