Today's Puget Sound blognic was quite the good time. Several of your favorite local bloggers and their families were there, including yours truly, co-hosts Matt "Rosenblog" Rosenberg, Brian "Medved Fans" Crouch, the lovely and talented Ambra Nykol, the soon-to-be-married Timothy "The Flag of the World" Goddard, the eponymous Andy MacDonald, Kevin "Reason and Mechanism" Leo and Ron "Horologium" Timekeeper , Orbus the Orbusmax and Steve "Steevak" Steve (I hope I'm not forgetting anybody).

Many regular blog readers were there too, including some local dignitaries. Among them: Washington State Senator Stephen Johnson, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, who gave us a pep talk about supporting November ballot referendum R-55 (a YES vote will approve the charter school legislation signed into law by the governor but challenged by the teachers' union); Charlie Hoff, one of the state's few elected school board members who supports charter schools; Both Republican candidates for the Attorney General nomination, Mike Vaska and Rob McKenna; Mark Griswold, challenging Speaker Frank Chopp for the State House of Representatives seat in the 43rd district; Public disclosure advocate and Ron Sims' worst nightmare Armen Yousoufian.