Sometimes, those engaged in metrobloggery feel the need to go incognito. So we had a secret meeting tonight. Herein, the minutes. We’re terrible at secrets.

Maybe our uninvited readers put a curse on us: before we even got to the table, two were felled by illness, and a third (and fourth?) were done in by iminent departure.

So what does an intimate, coven-sized gathering of your humble servants talk about?

Wynne is a half-marathoner, but you knew that already. Travis gave up good jobs in LA because it’s considered normal in Vancouver to use your midday hours to play frisbee. Ryan came fresh from a bike race, and knows a secret method to learn how to ride bicycles, by converting them to velocipedes (aka draisines, aka dandy horses).

It is agreed: the official favourite programming language of the coven is Perl, that perfectly eclectic report language.

Travis has a secret weakness: avocado. Wynne’s secret weakness: bicycles. Ryan’s secret weakness: he can be bought, and he’s cheap. World Wide Water Cooler’s secret weakness: she likes Tequila. So Travis sent her a shot, seeing as how she happened to be a few tables away.

And now it’s question time: what is it with women and multiple engagements? A quick, completely unscientific survey suggests that it’s fairly common for women to have had multiple marriage proposals, but not so much for guys to have proposed multiple times.

Theories:
-there’s a few guys out there who propose way too often
-there’s a few gals out there who get proposed to a lot
-Travis and I are just unusually desireable men [we can discount that one now. -Ed]
-our experiences are coincidental and abnormal

Travis thinks that a break-up should be an occasion for joy, since you wouldn’t have been happy if you’d stayed together anyways, right?

Tom Cruise is box office poison, and used to be married to Mimi Rogers. Who knew? (Travis knew.)

Question four: since traffic accidents are a leading cause of death, what’s more life-saving: making a trip to the store to purchase supplies for your earthquake survival kit, or avoiding the car trip, with its small but measureable risk of death? I don’t know the answer, but would note that you can think of earthquake survival supplies as having a marginal value: even if there’s a disaster, having disaster supplies may not be the difference between life and death for most people. I don’t know the answer; it’s not a trick question, and a reasonable person might claim it has an unknowable answer.

But a clever person might just have the supplies delivered. And die an agoraphobe.

Wynne may be along shortly with some food photos.

See you in about a month, and this time you’re all invited!