So where are we meeting? As I said before the Claim Jumper gets really busy on the weekends and the bar is usually jam packed, so the Lounge at the Holiday Inn sounds cool to me. It’s up to you guys though. Have a safe flight thinksnow 
Either place is fine with me - do you guys want drinks or dinner? Or dinner, then drinks? Or dinner, then drinks, then a drunken sing-along and some embarassingly maudlin moments (“I looove you guysh!”)
If anybody wants to meet for dinner first, maybe we could hit Claim Jumper for that at about 7:30, then adjourn to the lounge afterward for drinkies and meeting the latecomers. If nobody wants dinner, we could just meet for drinks. Or just dinner and no drinks. Or baloney sandwiches and a six-pack in the parking lot. I’m OK with any of that.
Oh, great. I get to watch you sots make fools of yourselves. 
But I’ll bet that Max Carnage’s picture page is going to get some great stuff.
So, ah, will we meet in the hotel? The parking lot? Claim Jumper? Should I run back and forth across the street shouting “Dooooooopers!” to hope to attract your attention?
One more thing: do you think you can tack on one more possible person to the list, seawitch? My buddy Chris is shipping out to 29 Palms on Monday for whatever the Marine Nat’l Guard does out there for 2 weeks (this after spending a month in Pendleton), so if he’s not too tired I thought I’d ask him to come along.
::note to self - bring camera:: 
Which Claim Jumper? There’s only a million of them (okay, a hundred) in the OC area!
It’s not quite clear to me if this gathering is for Friday night or Saturday night.
CaptMurdock - it’s the Claim Jumper on La Paz Road in Laguna Hills.
Arnold Winkerlried - it’s Saturday night, will you be joining us?
I will give an answer tomorrow, but probably not, if it’s Saturday. 
Aw, come on, Arnold! If you can’t make dinner, you could at least drop by for a drink with us… besides, I had been promised at a prior DopeFest that you always wore a gold lame’ shirt, and I still feel cheated. Look at this as your way to make it up to me.
Count me in as a “maybe”.
Okay, I thought I posted this last night, but I see it’s not here…I don’t see it here…whatever, it’s not shown above.
I’m counting on being free tonight, after, say 9 or 10, if anyone wants to get together for a little pre-Dope.
seawitch has my cell phone number, but if you drop me an email before noon (Eastern time) today, we could arrange something for this evening…heck tomorrow afternoon is free, too, if someone just wants to come out for lunch and sight-seeing.
All righty. Dinner at Claim Jumper on La Paz Road in Laguna Hills, at 7:30 pm. We will be under the name of “Adams”.
Drinks afterward (probably 9 pm or so) at the lounge of the Holiday Inn in Laguna Hills.
Anyone who wants to get in touch with me can e-mail me today during the day - if you need me during the evening or weekend, I can be reached at magichands@socal.rr.com.
Look forward to seeing everybody!!
I’ll just plan on meeting you all at the Holiday Inn then at 9. Are you guys going to be wearing name tags or something? How will we know it’s you?
I’ll e-mail you my cell phone #, dreamer.
My email address is the same as my AOL IM name, just add the @aol.com to it. Also here are some pics of musicguy, Mr. dreamer and myself. If it doesn’t connect at first try again. AOL doesn’t always behave!
Looking forward to meeting you all tomorrow
Hey, move yer butts over and make room for me and Spiny. He’s still skinny, but you know what married life does to a woman’s ass…
Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting some new folks, as well!
I’d love to come along, but already have a commitment for Saturday! (Two, in fact, but managed to weasel my way out of one)
Have fun without me.
Since Claim Jumper assigns a name for your group, weve decided to wear hawaiian sihrts to help find us.
With our luck there will be a luau party next to us and we will dis-a-peer.
:smack:
So happy hunting. See you all tonight.
Does that mean we can all wear hawaiian shirts? Hmmm, should I wear a tacky one, or a horribly blindingly tacky one. I hate making decisions.
I don’t own a Hawaiin shirt, but if I have enough time to look I just might be able to find some bunny ears
They’ll go well with my all black outfit