We’re staying at Marriott Fairfield Inn. Our room is like $67 a night, but we got a room with a pull-out sofa bed for the kidlings. They love the sofa beds…
Juliana, I think that IS in a good area of town.
Lsura, are you going to join us?
Ogre, where are you? sniffle
At the moment my attendance is still up in the air. I’ve made a reservation, but I’ll know for sure once that week actually gets here.
Hoping to make it though.
Thank you, Empress! 
Seriously, we worry about that, especially with two small children. Thank you very much for your insight! We’ve been around Tuscaloosa before, on the way to Birmingham or Atlanta, but have never stayed there.
See what you get when you go on vacation? I totally missed this.
I’ll be happy to help, of course, and as far as I know, I’m free on Aug. 11, so let’s have us a partay!
FTR, I gots no problems with kiddies, either. I like em lightly fried with a little lemon juice.
Kidding. Tykes are welcome. 
Schway! Ogre’s here. Now it’s on. Really glad to hear you can make it man. Otherwise, how would we figure out the tip? 
So we’ll start in the afternoon and spend the night? That wasn’t what I expected, but I guess it could be fun. I’ve never been to Tuscaloosa. All right, I’m in.
And I’m up for carpooling too, if missdav- uh, if any of you live on the way from Atlanta to Tuscaloosa.
We’re just staying the weekend because we want to enjoy this and have fun. We don’t want to have to worry about driving back to Jackson in the middle of the night.
You’d understand if you’ve ever ridden with my husband when he’s tired… (insert hair-raising smilie here)
Well, as you all know I work call 1 week out of 4 for the locksmith company I am working for. Well somehow the schedule has gotten fu… err screwed up and I work one week then off one week then on again. Guess which weekend one of those is?
So unless I can convince the bastards who design the schedule to gimme a dinking break I will not be able to make it. WIll let you know as time gets closer.
Osip
Yay! Ogre finally found the thread! I, too, was wondering who was going to help with the divvying of the tip there for a while, Simetra! August 11 is marked on my calendar, so unless something earthshattering happens on that date, I shall be there, fer sher.
Osip, I really hope you can make it to this one, since you had to miss the last one, too. Maybe if you ask someone to switch around with you this far in advance, or if they can juggle the schedule just this once you’ll be able to make it. I’ll certainly keep my fingers crossed.
Well, silky I am not going to ask.
I am going to go in screaming bloody f…ing murder.
I looked at the schedule, we have 4 people who run call after hours. Call runs 1 week at a time. Guess who gets to run call once every 3 weeks? Yeppers, the one thing I dispise about my job, Being on call.
SO, that schedule will be changed or somehow that phone will just not get answered late in the evening.
grrr… I have to run to work now… maybeI should rant about this in the pit tonight.
ANyhow Hoping I can make it.
Osip
I was bored the other day, and I tallied up the cities, as best I could guess, of the Alabamians on the board.
Huntsville - 5
Bham - 4
Auburn - 2
Fayette - 2
Mont - 2
Alabaster - 1
Cullman - 1
Hoover - 1
Leeds - 1
Phenix City - 1
Talladega - 1
It burns my hide that Huntsville is beating out Birmingham, but then we were tied until Nightingale defected to Hoover. Maybe a Huntsvillager will follow suit.
Looks like BamaDope II is gonna be a washout for me, folks. I hate it.
I have to attend wedding in Prattville that afternoon, and there’s little to zero chance that I can make it up to Tuscaloosa to meet you guys in time.
I’d ditch it altogether, except I don’t trust these two to get safely hitched without my standing over them with a bat.
:(:(:(:(:(
Ogre
I know. Goddammit, it’s my own fault. I knew they were getting married that weekend, but I forgot.
Sounds like this BamaDope is gonna be a rockin’ party, and I really, really, really hate to miss it.
Maybe when BamaDope III rolls around.
Awww… Ogre. Just won’t be the same without ya man.
Okay, so who IS still coming?
far as I know, we’re still on
Hubby and I will be there. We’ve got room to transport 6 people from the Atlanta/West Georgia/East-Central AL area, if you don’t mind making it an early night.
-BK
To seal my frickin’ fate, I have to be at a professional conference Sunday, so I couldn’t be at BamaDope II even if I could sneak out of the wedding.
Just thought you guys should know.
Maybe I should be there in effigy.
:mad: