Last weekend the Tweakers.net-crew for its annual Mother of all Meetings will be held. This time it was the Frisian Sneek the spool and the nearby Heegermeer was engulfed by a crowd of geeks.
On Gathering.tweakers.net prevailed in three days of anarchy: a large part of the moderators and other crew members were Friday, Saturday and Sunday absent in connection with the annual outing: the Barely. This sixth edition was programmed place abroad in the picturesque village of Oudehaske, Friesland. Was last year a typical castle that was taken, again, many retirees-sailor on the Heegermeer was startled by a loud ‘Arrr matey!’ and made the tweakers, the Frisian waters to be unsafe if they were Somali pirates.
The entire Province of Heeg was hired for the meeting, but despite this location was YMCA by the Village People for the theme song but it is at least as bad ” I “m on a boat” by The Lonely Island.
Friday night was the official start place and the attendees are on the bar, Singstar microphone, table or Rock Band instruments collapsed. Although for some, a late call this time was, stood the next morning everyone at 10.30 in good spirits, ready for the Saturday program. “The fun stops here’, insured the organization, however, and the courage sank the teams in the shoes after the weather became known: the wind and the rain.
A large part of the activities could be happy to be moved but when you are sailing, this proved a bit difficult. Nevertheless, it left the first group of scrawny beards in the morning with the fireplace, the valks or the fast rib-boat to the icy wind on the largest lake in Friesland to defy, and while many of the classrooms failed: local regattas were cancelled because of the wind. It turned out the weather 100 percent to fall: the sun showed itself regularly, and on what spatjes after that it stayed dry.
Meanwhile started the other team in the league. Also played water a large role: for example, there was a zeepbaan where participants as soon as possible had to glide and there were rafts be built. It was waiting for the first that a wet suit would get, but when that moment did not come, and the part was kakken left upper tweaker Femme, who would be crazy enough not to be part of team speed Camera but of ITTKAACBAIAOOB, itself from its best side by ‘accidentally’ of his barrel to let it slide. Only then, he was told that earlier that day a raft was disintegrated, after which the two skippers from the sailing gedregd had to be.
In the next part were the participants well on each other batter with a large rubber pads, which is also unprecedented fierce happened. Here were a lot of latent conflicts are unjustified mod-breaks and bans fought, that much was clear. At the end of the day it appeared team Red-action of the lovely editorial team has the most points at each other, gathering information, and with the grand prize – a sugar – off. Evil tongues claimed that Red-action the a deal had thrown with his direct opponent team ‘I can haz last place?’, that is indeed suspicious easy target took.
After the ceremony there were the barbecues lit, and this showed again that the weather gods Tweakers.net favorable; in the afternoon the air beautiful blue and the temperature was pleasant. So could everyone in the evening excellent outside enjoy the afterglow, while the Skûtjes and Tjalken quiet voorbijdreven.
Less quiet was the evening, when the Singstar-wannabees the eardrums again ravaged, Taiko no Tatsujin again was removed and some was blutgespeeld in the pokerhol. When the bar, at 1.00 closed went a group of die-hards went to the disco in Heeg, but because here only orders the Fries were accepted, and the lights in the dancing soon after arrival makes a lot of sense, kept many people in addition to some muscular aches, a cold, a wooden head and a lot of good memories, it also a nice collection of real Heegse drankmunten about as a memento of a very successful and perfectly organized Barely.
Incidentally, fell this year on that also for the crew, the years start to count. More and more tweakers take their children with them to the meeting, are married or have plans in that direction. In just the short weekend we were there a new tweakertje born and gave a crewmember are yes-word, making this year an extra special Barely was. Congratulations to the people concerned!
