A Conversation for Gilroy Garlic Festival Meet

Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 1

The Great Summer 2003 North American Rolling Meet-Up!!!

smiley - wah

This meet coincides completely with the *only* time that ~jwf~ is coming the thousand miles west from Nova Scotia to Quebec.

smiley - wah

I want to do BOTH!

smiley - wah

The problem is that he lives so far east it is practically Europe, but will be a spit and a doddle north of NYC between July 29 to Aug 3rd.

smiley - wah

Now as I see it we do one of three things

smiley - star Come to Gilroy and ignore ~jwf~, which I don't want to do - he is one of the three researchers I named in the very first IM conversation with GTB about coming out here. In other words, there were three reasons for me coming out to North America, and ~jwf~ was one of them.

smiley - star Or GTB and I couls see ~jwf~ late July/Early August and then work our way round in August so that we amble down the West Coast, seeing each of you separately, or in pairs, or whatever. The Gilroy meet goes ahead, and we miss it. This is less exciting for us than a full-on festival meet, but it *does* mean we get to see everyone, even if we don't see you all at once. It also takes some pressure off our trip round, because we don't have a fixed and immovable deadline ahead of us for 3/4ths of the trip. The time-pressure is already making us a little nervous.

smiley - star See ~jwf~ and meet y'all at a SECOND festival! (Why have one summer meet, when you can have two?) ~jwf~ has suggested (with a considerable touch of envy) the Burning Man festival between August 25 and September 1. http://www.burning-man.com This is a much much bigger event, which he described as 'like h2g2 in real life - which is as tempting as all-getout! In fact GTB and I could probably make it anyway. Hell, why not! We'll need a reward for missing the Gilroy Meet, and the Canadian Grand Prix and the Burning Man would be two rewards, not one.

smiley - wah

So....

Fellow Hootooers...

How committed are each of you to the Gilroy festival?

Putting it bluntly, if only four or so of you are going to be there, and you four are four we could *meet anyway* individually, then (for me) it is a no-brainer, and I will want to meet ~jwf~ in Quebec.

GTB may feel very differently about this, in which case we will take each other off-site and settle our differences on IM and come back as of one mind. Though ~jwf~ is luring us with the Canadian Grand Prix -
(This is part of what the rest of the world smiley - tongueout do for motor-racing. Kinda like the Indie 500 but with testosterone instead of gas.)

Y'all can still go to the festival, while we go to the Grand Prix, and then we can catch up with you later.

I must admit, as I am typing this, the roar of engines and the smell of petrol fumes are drowinging out the aroma of garlic. We would raise a toast to the garlic-munchers, and catch up with each of you in August.

GTB and I need to confer, and it would help tremendously if we knew how many of you were likely to acctually attend the Gilroy meet, and how many of you are just keeping an electronic eye from a distance.

Ben


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 2

Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE)

Since I have no idea if anyone but me is subsribed to the page, and I was going to do a survey anyway, I'll go around and ask people when I've time. I know that if I can, I'm going, and I know Fadookie said he was going to go to the festival before he ever knew of the meet, but I'm not sure about everyone else.

But I think, if jwf was a large reason for you, Ben, to come over in the first place, that you should see him Heck, there's enough time to arrange a regular meet, whether or not it's at Burning Man! I'll stop nagging you about comingsmiley - smiley But you're both still coming to Sacramento at some point!


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 3

Zak T Duck

I'm subscribed to the page, but looks like it'll be highly unlikely I can attend thanks to my half a dogsbody income. Looks like I'll be doing the attending on paper this time, and doing the real life attending once I make my first million. *pipe dream*


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 4

a girl called Ben

Well we will still be meeting people, either in ones and twos or mores. And the paperbaby will be good and visible by then. I would much rather hold a child than stroke a tummy!

GTB is off-line today, and I am off galivanting this weekend, but it would be good to get some gen.

Croz - where are you? Can we drop by and blow some smoke to encourage those pipe dreams?

Ben


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 5

a girl called Ben

smiley - headhurts

Why do I hit post before I engage brain? We met at the London meet! How could I forget?

*must remember not to drink at meets*
*must remember not to drink at meets*
*must remember not to drink at meets*
*must remember not to drink at meets*

B


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 6

Zak T Duck

smiley - laugh

I'm in Manchester Ben, and I am quite forgettable smiley - winkeye


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 7

a girl called Ben

smiley - blush

... well I did remember about 30 seconds later!

smiley - blush


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 8

Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE)

Maybe this time I'll actually get around to doing your portrait, Croz smiley - blush And If I can't make it in the flesh myself, I'm sure there'll be someone willing to print us out...


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 9

marvthegrate LtG KEA

I am tentativly plannig on going to the meet. The only question mark for me is if I will have a job by then. My company is laying off people all the time. Assuming I have gainfull employment I will be there.


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 10

Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE)

I've started updating with the people I'm certain of, and I'll go around this weekend and start asking people. Of course, if someone wanted to, they could ask some folks and let me know, too...


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 11

Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE)

I just went around and asked everyone, so we'll just have to wait and seesmiley - smiley


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 12

Wampus

I'm tentatively planning to go. I will honestly say that it depends on whether I feel like it when it rolls around. It's a 4-5 hour drive for me, so I have to get up the motivation to do it.


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 13

Thog the Loinclothed One, God of BLEEP!, Bearer of Nailguns... Hm.

Well, smiley - bleep, I guess I'll have to go into that category of people who really wanna go but can't smiley - wah

Nuts.


In other news, Hi everybody!!smiley - ok

Xilagedhajjarah Nut


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 14

Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE)

It's about the same length of time for Tom and I, too (which is why, if I've not delivered yet, I ain't goin') but I'll put you in 'Maybe' list, Wampus...

Would've been great to meet you, Thogsmiley - sadfacesmiley - hug


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 15

Thog the Loinclothed One, God of BLEEP!, Bearer of Nailguns... Hm.

Yeah... smiley - cry Sorry... haven't made it to even ONE of these things yetsmiley - sadface

Well, if anybody ever gets up into the Durango area, let me know...


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 16

Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE)

You could go hint at the Rolling meet up page...


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 17

Thog the Loinclothed One, God of BLEEP!, Bearer of Nailguns... Hm.

smiley - eurekaHey, you know, that's not a bad ideasmiley - ok



Xilagedhajjarah Nut


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 18

Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE)

I do have my moments, even with preggie-brain-rotsmiley - winkeye


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 19

GTBacchus

Durango, Colorado?


Howls of anguish - how many folks are going to be there? Interested people need to know!

Post 20

GTBacchus

Ben said, in post 1: "GTB may feel very differently about this, in which case we will take each other off-site and settle our differences on IM and come back as of one mind."

We are now of one mind, and it looks like our plans have changed yet again. I'm glad we started early, so this sort of thing can happen with many moons to spare. Much less stress that way.

We'll be leaving Dallas near the beginning of July, and reaching French Canada by the end of July. After that, we cross over, as far as Vancouver and Seattle, and then cut down diagonally across Oregon and into northern Nevada, for Burning Man right at the end of August. After that, we'll head west, passing through Sacramento on our way to the Bay, and then down to So Cal, and back through the southwest desert, arriving in Dallas sometime in September.

This takes off the time-pressure, which was making us worry how we would get 2/3 of the way around the continent in time for Gilroy. We'll now be operating at a much more leisurely pace, so we can really spend our time seeing the places and people that we're travelling so far to see. I'm sorry we will miss the Garlic Festival Meet - it'll be quite an event, and we'll insist on seeing pictures and tasting some kind of leftovers! smiley - winkeye


Our west coast Itinerary now looks something like this (I'll be updating the page this evening, too):

smiley - bus Vancouver around August 20, for a couple of days

smiley - bus Seattle just after that, staying for a day or so

smiley - bus one night in Oregon, en route

smiley - bus Burning Man, Black Rock Desert Nevada, August 26-September 1, at least I think those are the dates. Maybe we won't do the whole week, who knows?

smiley - bus Sacramento

smiley - bus San Francisco

smiley - bus Los Angeles

smiley - bus San Diego

smiley - bus Grand Canyon

smiley - bus Durango or Pagosa Springs

smiley - bus Santa Fe

smiley - bus Dallas


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