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General => Suggestions Box => Topic started by: Spriggan on October 01, 2004, 09:54:49 AM
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We need another TWG gameing night, especialy since Skar is back and has time to spend with us. I was thinking the end of the month (30th is a saturday), but since Halloween is on a Sunday this year Fell, Mustard will want to be with their families that night. So either 23rd (saturday) or 29th (friday).
Also we'll be starting back up our theme weeks, I've been wanting to do this for a while but didn't want to get stuck with doing 7-8 articles again. The theme I want to do is "Undead", I'm sure EUOL could do a special EUOLogy for us that week too.
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I was going to post this in my sticky thread in the news stection, but it's locked.
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I
can did unlock.
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sure, but that thread isn't for comments and no one ever reads it. Maybe it should just be deleted?
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whichever. How 'bout I just unsticky it.
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what ever you want. Doubt I'll use it since it's easier and better to use this board for things like this.
What we realy need is a sidebox on the main page for announcements such as theme weeks, contests and such. Someone get the whip out and make Tage design TWG 4.0.
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Hah. Good luck getting him away from Cadamis. Though if you come and play CoH with us, he might do it :P
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It could go under or over the poll. Wouldn't take a whole new version, just a feature add. It would be TWG 3.1 or something. Just like Windows!
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Hah. Good luck getting him away from Cadamis. Though if you come and play CoH with us, he might do it :P
Eh, why pay for an MMORPG when I get one for free. I'd probaly join you if I weren't in WoW beta, but I've only got enough time for one online game.
It could go under or over the poll. Wouldn't take a whole new version, just a feature add. It would be TWG 3.1 or something. Just like Windows!
ya he could, but the thing is there are lots of things that need to be reworked or added. Frankly TWG needs an overhaul from the database all the way up.
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Undead? Shotgun reviewing Zombies!
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Frankly TWG needs an overhaul from the database all the way up.
Feel free.
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I vote for game night the 23rd. I can do something for an undead week, probably.
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Eh, why pay for an MMORPG when I get one for free. I'd probaly join you if I weren't in WoW beta, but I've only got enough time for one online game.
Haven't you said yourself that they are screwing up WoW?
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Yeah, but he doesn't pay for it.
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Game night near the end of the month will be tricky for me because my parents and two brothers will all be in town both weekends.
We've made Halloween our family gathering holiday since no one else travels then.
Nice thought though. ???
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Game night or not, I'll vote for some kind of gathering Halloween weekend, because I'm going to be in Provo. But as you all know, I'm not much of a gamer, though I'm up for trying. Just never have played most things--board games and Settlers are about it.
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We should definitely do some kind of Halloween party, though it will have to be separate from our Skar party (dang! more parties!). I have a great halloween board game that everyone will enjoy, gamer or otherwise, though it only has six people max. We can mix it in with other things.
By the way, Stacer, I love your sig. You're a shimmering star in the forum firmament.
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maybe we can do dinner at booka with Skar sometime that week anyway.
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By the way, Stacer, I love your sig. You're a shimmering star in the forum firmament.
I was just waiting for someone to see it. :D And thanks, because I ain't people.
Halloween game/party sounds fun.
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OK, Skar and I have discussed scheduling and we've determined the following. Unfortunately, Skar and I are easily the hardest locals to coordinate given that we have families and live far away from everyone else, so these dates are kind of funky.
Oct 15: Game Day/Night in Provo
Oct 23: Food Night at Buca in SLC
I regret that these plans don't include Halloween weekend, because that means they don't include Stacer, but Halloween weekend is pretty tough for both Skar and I. That doesn't stop you from having your own Provo party that weekend without us.
If necessary we could maybe do Buca on Friday the 29th. I'd really like to do the game night closer to Halloween but I can't think of any way to work it out. Suggestions are welcome; let me know what you guys think.
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I was just waiting for someone to see it. And thanks, because I ain't people.
Hale Theater in West Valley is doing this show soon. I'm gonna have to work my theater connections to get tickets.
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I'm out on the 15th. We're counting wood that night. But I'll be there on the 23rd.
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I will lobby heavily for the 23rd, and drag my husaband along. Make sure Morag is coming so I can prove J.T. exists.
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When I say 15, what I really mean is 16. Saturday will probably give us more freedom than a late Friday night.
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Sad. :(
But I do still want to get together with whoever's in Provo one night that I'm there. I'll be dragging my old roommates along, too--cute single girls. ;) Though I imagine Fiona's too tall for Tage. We don't really have a set schedule, so whatever night works best for you guys will probably work for us.
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Right. If that's then case, then *I'm* coming.
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If Jam's coming, I'll not only work my schedule around it, I'll buy dinner.
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This is where we discover that Jam is actually Tage, masquerading in disguise in the hopes of free meals.
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Hmm....cost of airfare: $lots.
Cost of a meal: About twenty bucks.
Value of seeing Fell actually paying for dinner after he expected me to be joking for sure: Priceless.
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dude, if you seriously showed up on my porch some day, I'd buy you a dinner.
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cute single girls. ;) Though I imagine Fiona's too tall for Tage.
Wait wait, how tall is too tall?
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She's taller than me (I'm 5'8", she's probably 5'10"). About in your age range. You should pop up Halloween weekend. :D She's from London. She's a singer (she's amazing, has a CD) and getting her master's in theatre and media arts at BYU.
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oh, 5'10"...I was hoping at least 5'11", though 6'2" is best... v_v
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Wait, so I'm not the only person who thinks it's kind of cool to be with someone who's exactly your height?
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oh, 5'10"...I was hoping at least 5'11", though 6'2" is best... v_v
Um, it's an *inch*. Really, is that so much? You only want an excuse not to have to come up that weekend, that's all. ;)
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/me always thought that cuteness transcended vertical differences
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I like myself some tall women.
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Wait, so I'm not the only person who thinks it's kind of cool to be with someone who's exactly your height?
No I'm with you there Fuzzy, yet I'm not going to not go out with someone becasue of their height, unless they're like 5" taller or shorter then me.
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Having said that, short is cute. >_>
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I'm a fan of shorter girls, myself. Of course, ya'll already know that.
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Okay,
Despite the fact that saying things like this tends to get me into serious trouble for some reason.
British accent=mega hot. That's far more interesting than any height factors.
That said, it doesn't mean that Americans can't be hot too! (I still remember the whole EUOL-doesn't-like-blonds fiasco of '03).
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i like brit accents. In girls. Irish too. Rowr.
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Okay,
Despite the fact that saying things like this tends to get me into serious trouble for some reason.
Well, we figure you'll learn one day.
That said, it doesn't mean that Americans can't be hot too! (I still remember the whole EUOL-doesn't-like-blonds fiasco of '03).
Because, of course, the hottest is a blonde with an American accent. ;)
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I used to prefer brunettes. Maybe I still do. But I married a blonde and...no regrets there buddy!
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I loves red heads. But given the blond-brunette choice, I'm taking brunette. Which is who I married. Yay!
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Maybe it's the fact that I have red hair, but I've always been very turned off by redheads.
But I agree with EUOL on the accent. Yowza!
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you turn me off quite a bit too, HoM
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Back at ya, Monkey Boy.
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anyone who can be described as "monkey" probably shouldn't be gathering amorous attention from anyone not named "Bobo"
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At any rate, back to the subject: Halloween weekend anyone?
(And I don't care if you all think blonde Americans aren't that great, as long as you think I am great. ;D)
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Do you have any idea how horrifying this thread has become?
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Redheads are teh hot, followed by Brunettes, except when the blondes are as hot as the one on my bus.
Short > Tall.
And Russian accents are hotter than any other.
I am right, and you are wrong.
Thankyou for your time.
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Um, it's an *inch*. Really, is that so much? You only want an excuse not to have to come up that weekend, that's all. ;)
No no, you misunderstand, it's 5'11" which is already the inch I'm giving. 5'10" would be TWO inches. Two inches is a lot. And really, the inch before that inch, which is 6'0", is already 2.5".
Fuzzy: same height = good. Otherwise I would feel, as the Bible says, "unequally yoked." (Though I've never heard it applied in that way before...)
Height is definitely the first thing I look at. Followed by...something else.
But I definitely don't think I'm in the mood to drive 9 hours straight one way that week.
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Then you should drive 18 hours round trip. That way you only have to go half as far at a time.
It's looking like I might be in Provo on Friday the 29th, though I promise nothing and I'll know more in a week or two. Maybe we could do something then.
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I'm up for dinner Halloween weekend.
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ARGH. I have the 23rd off and WILL be coming to Skar's dinner, but J.T. will be out of town at ANOTHER convention.
Alan is NEVER going to believe my husband exists.
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So if we follow our plan we'll be having a game night/afternoon in Provo this weekend on the 16th. Who's interested? What games do you want to play? Where can we do it? Possibly the Cottontree? The HumPub? Tage and EUOL's house? Somebody else's house? Speak up.
Let me say that I want to play some Magic, maybe some Heroclix (with a scenario this time, rather than a random battle), and at least one board game--I'll be bringing three new Avalon Hill games, including a very cool haunted house game and a new version of Risk called Godstorm.
We also need to consider food.
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16th is no good for the cottentree, there's a football game this weekend and I can tell you it'll be busy.
You're allwayse welcome at my place, we'll (read 42) will even clean the ferrits cage, he does every friday or saturday, so it won't be stinky. And as you know, I don't think Tage or EUOL would have an objection to their place (I think EUOL said his place is allwayse open).
I'll be there, and if 42 isn't working he'll be there, I'm sure promethious will too.
I can bring HC or starwars minis.
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Was just thinking, while it's not a good idea to use the breakfast room on saturaday, we might be able to get the meeting room as long as we clean up afterwards.
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The meeting room would be great if there are a lot of people coming. If it's less than 10 people or so, we can just have it at our house.
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I think Micah works tonight, if so I'll ask if we can use. Though I don't think we'll have 10 people.
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I'm thinking around 10 or less. I doubt Mustard will come because he's such a loser, so that's one less to worry about.
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Lol.
Just advance warning--I'll be at writing group this Saturday. Sorry. I'm on for the next week, though. (And I'll bet Alan, at least, will want to come to the Skar party. I'll make certain to tell him this weekend.)
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Oof. I thought writing group was on Fridays.
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It usually is. Unless someone can't make it on Friday--like this week. Then we usually change it to Saturday.
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Well CT is out, someone's useing the meeting room this saturday.
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It's looking like I might be in town as early as Friday afternoon, beleive it or not--I have a job interview in Provo around 3:00, and I don't want to drive all the way down there and back two days in a row. That's a whole lot of gaming potential, and I'll even get to see EUOL.
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Friday would be excellent. But that's just for me.
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Oh - and if you need a place to stay Fell we've got a spare bed and bath that you're welcome to use.
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Friday works out great for me too. I have my gaming group on Saturday nights.
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Fridays good for me.
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I say both days are good!
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Mmmm, a spare bath you say? However is that possible and plausible?
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Don't base any decisions off of me. I'm afraid that I'm likely to be busy both evenings.
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Well, it's crunch time whether EUOL is going to be busy or not. When and Where? Someone make a decision! :'(
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Well, if it's Friday I can come for all of it. If we need a place to host it we can even have it at my place. I live in a condo right off the 16th North freeway exit in Orem (a few blocks from EUOL/Tage's place.)
If it's Saturday I can come late (about 11pm or so.)
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So say we start at 6 pm.
My place is always available as an option too.
Then there is Kije's place or EUOL's.
I'll have to leave early, I've adjusted my work schedule so I'm working at 11 pm on friday.
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6:00pm Friday Night at Tage and EUOL's place. I will bring House on the Hill, a new version of Risk, a new version of Axis & Allies, some Magic decks, and of course the standard array of Heroclix and other random little games (including some Ewoks to trade Spriggan for his Bespin Guards). Let there be feasting and rejoicing, and I'm glad EUOL's not coming because we didn't want him there anyway. Nyah nyah.
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Forgive me for being stupid. :-[ I've been there twice before but could someone please send me the grid coordinates for Tage and EUOL's house? I don't need directions just the grid.
[email protected]
Thanks.
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I'll send what I remember in a private message, although it won't be exact...should get you in the right area.
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I sent you the address, Skar.
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Good. I was hoping he'd get better information than my 'on the right block' estimate.
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Thanks. It's so rare that I get to just go game, I don't want to waste my time driving around looking...shooting...and calling in airstrikes. >:(
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*If* we decide to do some Magic games, are we going to be enforcing 100/3? It's been so long that I've needed to worry about that format that I just realized that I don't have a 100/3 deck made right now, but it would be fun to do it again. (Can have one done by sometime tonight easily though.)
We could also try out Emperor format too, if enough people want to try it.
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Ok so... 23rd @ Bucca Di Beppo or whatever it's called?
Address? Time? Average cost of meal?
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It's around 7200 if I remember correctly (where you there last year for EUOL's party?), not sure on the time though I think they were planning around 7-8pm. Also i'm not sure how they're going to do the bill since Bucca is more a family meal type of place where you get something that feeds 4 or more people for $10-$12. So they might just take the bill and divide it by how many come.
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Actually, you generally get dishes that feed 2-3 people for $20-25. But the food is great. :)
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Good to know, but I'm coming for the company.
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Shall we say 5:00pm? Here's a map that I hope works: http://utah.citysearch.com/map?mode=geo&id=35707602&map_lat=406224&map_lon=-1118647&fid=&cslink=
The price isn't as bad as Tage says, but it is on the pricy side. Plan 10 or 15 dollars per person, and we'll just order a bunch of food and split the bill as evenly as possible. Bring cash if you can, because it makes things a million times easier.
Can we get an approximate head count by, say, tonight? I want to call and reserve a table (or many tables, as the case may be), so I need to tell them how many people to expect.
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Count me and my wife in. You probably already were but hey, I'm sick of being a ditch digger.
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Erin and I will be there. I assume this is a no kids affair? I hope so, because kids and Buca don't mix. (Though we often try.)
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Oh, heavens-to-betsy yes, no kids. Tage has personally volunteered to babysit everyone's kids, so don't bring them.
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I will, however, be at an early Halloween party. I'll take your kids, but I won't be held responsible for anything that happens to them at said party.
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I'll be there.
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So your going to be babysat by Tage, Spriggan?
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Obviously me. My husband now MAY be going, but probably not. I'll let you know if plans change.
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Hey Mustard, if I bring my copy of On Second Thought, would it annoy you to sign it?
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I'll sign it. With actual mustard.
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"Happy birthday Mom! I got you a copy of that book I was talking about!"
"Megan....Why is there mustard on it?"
"Oh. That was the author's brother."
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I would gladly sign it!
Have you read it yet? I can't remember who has and who hasn't...
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Yep, I have.
I used to have a picture of Fellfrosh's sock somewhere if he's eager to sign something in mustard.
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I still have the picture of his sock on my harddrive. ::) I have lots of random pictures from the old TLE group.
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Well, it looks like my lovely wife won't be joining us. She's got the whooping cough, apparently, and is quarentined for five days.
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We just got our results back, no whooping cough here. Hooray!
So far we've only got 7 people, but we haven't heard official confirmations from EUOL and many others. Is Izzy coming? Brenna? Any other random Provo-ites?
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I bet Izzy is not coming, since it would require coming from California with a newborn.
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lol.
I know EUOL and Kije are comeing.
And my friend Steve might come too, though he dosn't get off of work until after 5pm so he's not sure if he'd make it up in time.
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She lives in California? The things you learn.
How about Prometheus and 42?
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42 is out of town till monday,
not sure about Promethious, his been helping his brother renovate so I haven't seen him much in the past few days.
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My ailing wife has informed me that she would prefer that I stay with her, so I have to sadly bow out. Have a Bucarific time!
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If the dinner was tonight, I could go, but we already have plans with Mr. M and his wife (and MsFish) for tomorrow night. So, alas, I will not be there. Sorry! I'd love to try some other time--it's been forever since I've had the chance to see Skar!
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Rejecting your friends to go out with Mr Man? Oh dear...
:P
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So we're down a Mustard and up a EUOL and a Kije (and, presumably, Kije's wife). That puts us at 9 people, or 10 if Steve shows up (whoever that is). Not the enormous Buca party we've had in the past, but a fine one nonetheless. I'm sure any extra stragglers can be accomodated as well.
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I invited Morag and wife, so we might be up an orc or two. (I'll remind them tonight.)
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Mr. Man deserves love, too, Entropy.
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Ufortunately, Kije will not be there (nor his wife.) We are both currently in a production of Fiddler on the Roof involving a performance tomorrow night.
That is also the reason for my hellishly annoying beard.
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I liked having a beard. At least, I did as soon as I learned to stop scratching it compulsively, thus irritating the skin beneath.
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heh. No, different Mr. M.
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I too liked having a beard. It itched after a week for another two weeks and then was just fun to have.
I once had a member of our AMF (the afghanis we were working with) tell me I had an Al Quaeda beard. It was red, like some men from the more northerly part of the middle east, I kept it trimmed over my lips and ears and he thought I looked just like a member of Al Quaeda. That was kind of wierd.
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I didn't know you could have a beard if you were active in the military... (although I imagine that shaving facilities in Afghanistan were unreliable). I guess I was wrong.
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You're only allowed to have a beard in the active duty military if you are working with indigenous people who think that if you shave you are declaring your homosexual leanings. Or if you've been in the field away from shaving facilities for so long that you grow one. Thus it's mostly a Special Forces thing.
It was really fun having a beard on the few occasions that I was on the big base in Kandahar because all of the regular military guys think you're some ultra bad ass killer working directly for the CIA and give you wide clearance. (Which in my case was only totally true part of the time;) )
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Okay kids...
Even though I won't be going tomorrow, I made your reservation. 6:00pm at the Fort Union Buca Di Beppo's tomorrow night. The reservation is in the name of Dan Wells.
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You're only allowed to have a beard in the active duty military if you are working with indigenous people who think that if you shave you are declaring your homosexual leanings. Or if you've been in the field away from shaving facilities for so long that you grow one. Thus it's mostly a Special Forces thing.
That's extremely generous of them.
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So, if you guys aren't all dinner-ed out after tonight, howsabout next week? I'll be around from Friday afternoon to early Monday morning, so any of the three nights is good, though of course if Sunday, we'd need to have it potluck at someone's house rather than out somewhere. Or we could have it potluck at someone's house anyway. I'm open to all ideas.
So far I'm still flexible on the night, so what works better for you guys?
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Friday works best for me.
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I now have plans for Saturday, so Friday sounds good to me, too. Anyone else?
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I desperately want to be free on Friday, because that means I don't have to go to my Father-in-law's birthday party, but the odds of that are nil. So count me out altogether, unfortunately.
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Friday night works best for me, unless I have any sudden changes in my plans.
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Sorry, I'll be working this Friday. But I'll be having Halloween fun at work.
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Okay, it's sounding like not too many people will be able to make dinner. How about lunch? And whoever's around at dinnertime, we can do dinner later (which so far is Brenna and 42--where shall we go, guys?). I'm going to be at Mama Chu's (Mexican) for lunch around 1:00-ish on Friday. I've heard they have a great lunch special. Anyone around at lunchtime that might want to meet then?
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You know, I may actually be able to do lunch at Mama Chu's on Friday. We often go there on Fridays anyway, since that chicken chimi special is so amazing.
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Okay, so we have so far at lunch: me, Fiona (old roommate), EUOL, Tage.
Dinner: me, Sallyann (old roommate), possibly Candace (old roommate), 42, and Brenna.
Anyone else? Fuzzy, you available at lunchtime?
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not unless you make it before noon.
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Sad. :(
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I stopped paying attention for a while, and now I'm confused. The Halloween party sadly lost Fell when it went to a Friday, and now it seems to have morphed into a luncheon and a dinner to accomodate more people. I could make a dinner tomorrow. Were we planning on doing anything else afterward? I had mentally blocked out all of Friday evening for a party of some kind, myself.
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Thai Chili Pepper (used to be Thai Chili Garden) at 6pm tomorrow, anyone who can make it. No real plan on what we'll do after. Kristy and I were going to go shopping at Old Navy if nothing else came to mind. But if there's something interesting to do, why, let's go for it. But it sounds like it'll be a small group.
The lunch is more of a "whoever's around, let's do lunch" thing. And anyone who wants to meet my British roommate. ;)
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Oh, and Prom, bring 42 if he hasn't seen this. I've emailed him, but haven't heard a confirmation that he's seen the email, and I don't have your guys' phone number.
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Got the address of the Thai Chili Pepper?
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I was thinking I might come to dinner tomorrow, assuming I'm in a better mood. And assuming I can justify the expense.
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The address is
283 E 300 South
Provo UT
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I should be there.
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I'm so glad so many people will be able to come to dinner.
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42 already answered, but I'll send you our phone number by the private message-thingy for future reference, just in case.