First it was Megha, then Milind, and now the kde guy Pradeepto. This lad got married recently. And know what? He was signed in on IRC all day. 
It would have been fun if his away message would have read: “afk - marrying” 
My congratulations to the couple.
“Did somebody call the printer walah?”
That was what I heard when we walked into the room where the Freed.in/2007 organizers and volunteers (and then some more) were busy with last day preparations, the night before the event was to start.
A lot of talks, running between halls, conversations over packed water glasses, resting before the huge fans at the lawn, “Oh, thats your IRC nick? - hello! I’m baks17” handshakes later, I’m happy that I did attend freedel. It was fun.
The talk went fairly okay, better than what I had expected.
Food was _good_ (Pradeepto has scribbled some things about the kebabs and mixed fresh lime soda at Saanjha Chulha), climate was awesome (except for those mid afternoon burns) and people were so c00l. Even after changes in schedules, running between halls, speakers overtiming and such, there was always time for one ciggie, one laugh, one BoF, one tea. It was nice. Nice is good. 
Thank you guys.
And then, after the event, a few of us headed over to the himalayas for rejuvenating ourselves. For some quiet time, some peace. But the gory details of the trip calls for yet another entry.
I came across #air on freenode on Mike Chamber’s blog. I visited the #flex on efnet a couple of months ago, and it was deserted. Then stopped lurking around there.
Now, its time to start a #flex or a #flex-india on freenode, if there isn’t one registered already. But lets see if there is a #flex on one of the other networks. I will have to hunt down flexcoders archives to see if there is one. IAC, as mrinal says, mxna is the morning newspaper to read anyway.
For now, I go back to slacking. No hacking this weekend.
[UPDATE]
Registered #flex-india on freenode. Time to put up a bot there?