15th of May then?
I’ll see what I can do! 
Sounds good to me. We’ll probably do a side dish or two, since the Oven of Doom isn’t really suitable for large scale food preperation.
I should warn you, it’ll probably be 3 or 4 decent-sized boxes of books (unless I get a swarm of buyers on Amazon!), so ya’ll will have plenty to dig through.
I do a decent fruit salad kind of dish, if that sounds ok. Want us to bring any chips or anything?
Sound great, Archergal! So far we have
Saturday, May 15th, 5pm until…
GeoBills - Lasagna, plates, cups, cooler, ice, utensils, napkins, etc…
Archergal - Fruit Salad kinda thing
GMRyujin - Side dish, plus rummage sale goods
JackaRoe - Red Beans and Rice/Creole dish and/or beer
Mausmagill - CHOCOLATE DESSERT!!!
We may hit that Greek Festival either Saturday afternoon or Sunday, sound good!
As the date approaches we’ll send out addresses, directions, phone numbers, and all of those goodies. We do have a cat, if anyone has allegies.
I hope you do! You won’t be sorry. If anyone wants to e-mail me your address (my e-mail address is in my profile), I’ll send you a free admission flyer. On Friday, I’ll be working Food Line (serving food) from 6-11, Saturday, I’ll be working Food Ticket Sales from 10-5, and Food Line from 5-11. On Sunday, I’ll be working Food Ticket Sales from 11-3, and Food Line from 3-7.
Anyone else? I think I’ll start dropping some emails to the folks I haven’t heard from yet.
I’ll come if you’ll have me.
And I’ll come if he goes. Glad to see a dopefest here in Atlanta.
And we’ll have the both of ya. What ya bringin’?
I can make cheesecake.
I’m afraid I will have to redact my acceptance of the invitation to the Atlanta Dope-fest. That little nagging doubt that we were free the weekend of the fifteenth turned into a big nagging doubt when I remembered that my Brother-in-Law is graduating that day.
I’ll make something chocolate for the next one.
Sauron and I are possibles.
I do have a question though, is this a kid-friendly event? If not, I totally understand and it won’t hurt my feelings at all.
The reason I ask is…we can get a babysitter for the tiniest minion. However, we will have the 7 year old with us unless one of the grandparents want him.
Will there be any other kids present? If not, then I will certainly ask the grands if they can take him for the afternoon/night.
I’ll check with the Dark Lord today and see what he thinks. 
Hrm. I don’t think we have any other kids coming, or at least nobody else has asked about it. The apartment isn’t kid-proofed, though I’m not too concerned about that, I just worry that he’d be bored if he’s the only short person there.
Mausmagill, we’ll miss you (and your chocolate dessert :D, good thing XWalrus2 has offered cheesecake!), but I hope you can make it to the next one.
Absolutely. That settles it for me. I’ll check with the grandparents and see what they have going on. If they are busy then we will pass on this get-together and try to catch you guys some time later.
Trust me, I’ll miss the good excuse to make something chocolate. My wife has just started the South Beach diet (after watching my Father drop 40 pounds), and I’d be the only one left to eat it.
Ugh. My father has decided that I cannot go, due to the fact that you all might secretly be child molesters. I mean, never mind the fact that you’d all have to be posing as upstanding members of the SDMB for 4 years, and they’d know exactly where I would be, it’s still out. My dad is a little irrational.
Sorry about that.
We’re going to be lame and bring a big salad or something, because most of our cookware will be packed up and I don’t want to subject strangers to the whims of the Oven of Doom.
If anyone that’s not coming wants to come by our place and root through all the books, CDs, and DVDs I’m getting rid of, drop me an email. They’re mostly SFF, but there’s some Classics and some random stuff in there. Actually, if you can’t come by but want me to ship something to you, email me, too, and we’ll figure something out for shipping.
RATS! Foiled again, and we would have gotten away with it if not for your meddling dad!
Now where on earth will we get a teenager for our ritual sacrifice?
Seriously, though, I suppose I can understand a parent having reservations about their kid going to meet a bunch of people from the internet. Especially if he’s not familiar with the online world, all it seems you hear about are people being lured away to some nefarious end.
Is there anything we can do to help allay his fears? Would he want to come with you? (This providing, of course, that having your dad around won’t completely cramp your style.) Drop you off, so he can see we don’t have a torture chamber set up in the back room? Talk to one of us on the phone? We’re fine upstanding citizens–well, my husband and I anyway, I can’t vouch for any of these other miscreants. We even met at one of these gatherings, ChiDope, almost three years ago.
If not, well maybe you can come to a later event in a public place.