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Um, maybe or definite? I'll stick you in the 'Maybes' for now...

Well, it's redundant by now, but I'm certianly planning on both. I can put out-of-towners up overnight, if it helps, though not more than about 3, I wouldn't think.



GTB

Any room for any paper attendees - a delegation from the Committee of the Flat Cap & Muffler Sports & Social Club?

If no one local has a printer, I'm pretty sure I could squeeze some papers into the luggage

I'll get some taken on Saturday at the Curry meet

I live in Salem and would be honored to provide transportation. Granted I cannot arraign hyper-dimensional transport with just this little time just the ordinary three dimensional from Salem to Portland if needed.

Just give me the co-ordinates and I can be there for the 12th. I'm previously engaged on the 5th.

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As far as coordinates, I'd guess that the Greyhound station would be a good place to start on the 12th

*copy-and-pastes from Greyhound site*
550 NW 6TH AVE
Portland OR 97209

I thought that you were going to spend some time in Salem, is this true?
Will you need a ride up to Portland instead of going by bus?

I was offering that ride.

Yes I know where the Portland bus depot is what time?

Thanks for the offer, but the tickets have already been bought I'll get into Portland at 1 pm.

Hey! This is nukewaste from lj. I'll definately make the 5th, maybe the 12th. Looking up old friends in the area, because it's a long bus ride from Seattle to Portland.

Anyhoo, 5th is a go.

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How will we recognize you? with a big huge sign around your neck and piles of HOOTOO books around you??????

Well, on the 5th I'll be wearing my h2g2 t-shirt. Maybe I'll wear it again on the 12th... But the constants are glasses, long dark brown hair, about 5' 7", weight hopefully less than now (call it a medium build), and connected by a red harness (I'll have the leash end, of course) with Elmo on it to a 32" tall, 24 lb 20-month-old girl with dark ash blond/light ash brown hair. Plus when I get the online album caught up (the next couple weeks, I promise!) there'll be some recent photos. More of Faith than me, since I'm the main camera user around here, but I'm sure there's at least *one*...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F2016526?thread=595274

This is perhaps the thread that most of us meeter-uppers are subscribed to...

Hi everyone. Gingersnapper and I scouted out meeting places yesterday. We liked the Eco-Trust Building, about a 4 block walk from the Greyhound station. Inside there's a big foyer area with a pizza parlor and a coffee shop attached to it. Nice place. A park is just across the street, and weather permitting, that could be a good place to hang about.

I guess Ginger and I will be picking up Amy and Faith at the airport around 3:00. We'll probably have them and their bags to the Greyhound station by 3:30 or 3:40. Meanwhile, if Mikey and NuclearConfusion are already down from Seattle, they could already be set up at the Eco-Trust Building, perhaps? The rest of us will be there before 4:00, I think it's safe to say. We'll hang out there for a bit, get some Pizza and coffee in us, and maybe check out the park. The bus leaves at 6:45... Maybe at 5:00 we could migrate from Eco-Trust to Wilf's, which opens then. It's nice there, whoever wants to could get drinks , and it's quite literally a short stone's throw from the Greyhound station. They might have piano-playing entertainment as well.

That's about an hour at the pizza place/park, and then an hour (and change) at the fancy piano bar place. After Amy and Faith get on the bus, those of us remaining could adjourn to... anywhere, really, or maybe we'll be done by then. That part, I'm willing to play by ear.


How does that sound, as a plan? Suggestions are still quite welcome and good. Amy, we had talked about a couple of places like OMSI and CM2; they are a bit trickier logistically, but if your heart's set on some particular place, then let's make it happen.


GTB

I'm still trying to figure out which weekend I'm coming -- I really can't afford, time wise, to go both. Hmmmm.....

OMSI and CM2 both deserve a whole day, I think, so dropping them is probably a good idea

Like I said over in our other thread, pizza's fine with me! I can just put a short-sleeved shirt on Faith, and I've got disposable bibs to bring along. Plus, I've got a portable booster chair on its way, so high chairs aren't a concern. So if this plan works for everyone else, I'll put it on the page. For that matter, I can put it under 'Possibilities' now...

Do we want to do anything different on the 12th? I can certainly do pizza on both the 5th and the 12th, but if anyone else doing both days isn't a huge pizza fan, that's ok too. I may or may not be able to get online at Grandma's, so if we don't figure out what we want to do on the 12th before I head down to Salem, I'll happily go along with whatever

It looks like I will be coming on the 12th. First, because I really want to meet dim26trav in person and also because a friend called last night and her husband is willing to pay for me to take her out of town for this weekend, so she can have some "adult" time away from the kids.

So, NuclearConfusion -- if you need a ride the weekend of the 12th, drop a note on my personal space and we will work out the details.

And GTB, I just responded to your email.

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