07.08.10

I never thought this would really happen…

Posted in Camino, Life at 1:26 am by Smokey

To borrow a line from the illustrious Jon Hicks, “I never thought this would really happen, but…” I finally got my Camino 1.0 shirt.

Back in December of 2005, Samuel Sidler emailed those of us who had worked on Camino during the post-0.8 era, announcing that there were going to be Camino 1.0 polo shirts in celebration of our forthcoming 1.0 release. Of course Sam was out West and most of the rest of us were not, so there was always the question of how we were going to get these celebratory garments; for most, the solution turned out to be the 2007 Meet-Up. I was one of the Camino team members who couldn’t make that meet-up (or the 2008 version), so, as time went on and my shirt alternately was riding around in Sam’s car or sitting in his apartment awaiting a trip to the post office, I slowly gave up hope of ever seeing it.

Then, in late May of this year, the 2010 Samuel Sidler World Tour™ rolled into town and Sam and I met for dinner—and he had stopped by wherever lost Camino 1.0 shirts were kept and picked up mine before arriving. I never thought the day would actually come…. After such a long saga, it was a surprisingly low-key ending, yet well-worth the wait.

And, because no good story is complete without pictures, here’s Sam in his Songbird kit and me in the long-awaited Camino 1.0 polo, befuddling other patrons outside the restaurant after dinner:

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