# DC/NoVa/MD Party/Dopefest! 6/2/01 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 18, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440 "2001-03-18T02:51:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/61 "2001-05-05T12:37:02Z")
**Andygirl** , I can be both happy and sad. Happy for you with the mighty Quietgirl but sad for us that you won’t be able to make it. To bolster the existence of Delaware, however, we do have some friends coming from Seaford. **Falcon** , there are some B&B’s nearby, I don’t know how expensive they are, though. There’s also a days inn in Leesburg. It’s about 15 miles away. There’s also the scary scary Purcellville Motel but that place gives me the creeps. Tell me what you want me to look for and I’ll do the research and drop you a line. Chocolate, eh? Any other wishes? ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/62 "2001-05-05T13:27:13Z")
Hey, just checking back in. I’m still working on whether I can make your little soiree. My Grandmother’s birthday is on Memorial Day. Depending upon when we have her party, I might be able to make it down. I’ll let you know as soon as I find out. I really wanna go and meet some Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/63 "2001-05-05T15:46:06Z")
The Days Inn should work, JC. Usually they’re not TOO expensive. 🙂 And so I like chocolate. Hush. (Could we have caramel too, though? :)) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/64 "2001-05-06T11:48:41Z")
Then caramel there shall be. I intend to make Harace Bury’s admiration of the moties look small. “You are most impressive hosts…” ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/65 "2001-05-06T14:12:45Z")
Nah . . . too far away, and there’s no public transportation. For me, anything west of Herndon might as well be on the moon. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/66 "2001-05-06T14:14:10Z")
but thanks anyway! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/67 "2001-05-07T18:26:00Z")
“The Moon”…Forsooth! You should hear what we think of you flatlanders. And just to correct what appears to be popping up every now and again… **The party is NOT over Memorial Day weekend!** The party is June 2: the Saturday **after** Memorial Day weekend. Just checking up… ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/68 "2001-05-07T19:11:21Z")
**NeidHart** , if you can make it to the Pentagon City Metro Station, you got yerself a ride. I’m already picking up **Captain Amazing** and **goboy** there. I think I got room in my suburban for a few more (and, if he ever finds it, **Captain Amazing** ’s small African nation)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/69 "2001-05-08T00:05:42Z")
Okay . . . I’m trying to figure out how to get from Pentagon City Metro Station (Arlington, VA) to your place, Jonathan. The last few steps: 19: Turn RIGHT onto HIRST RD. 1.8 miles 20: Turn RIGHT onto VA-690. 1.4 miles 21: Turn RIGHT onto ALLDER SCHOOL RD. 0.8 miles I tried getting directions from Allder school rd to your place, but it makes me choose a block of allder school rd, and to be quite frank I’d never heard of the road before today:) Heeeeeeelp! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/70 "2001-05-08T00:21:25Z")
Well, you can’t get on 690 from Route 7 easily. I’ll be sending directions around with the party web site shortly but here goes… From NoVa… Take either Route 7 or the Dulles Greenway to Leesburg. From Leesburg take Route 7 towards Winchester. Get off Route 7 on Route 9 towards Charles Town, WV. We’re about 10 miles up Route 9, at the intersection of Route 9 and Route 671. When you go through the tiny little hamlet of Hillsboro, you’ve only got two miles to go. How’s that? ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/71 "2001-05-08T05:28:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > I intend to make Horace Bury’s admiration of the moties look small. > \*\*“You are most impressive hosts…” \*\* _swoon_ I just read **Mote** this past week for the first time…and I feel real cool for having got that reference. _bouncebounce_ [sub]and now it is time for **moi** to go to bed…please return to your regularly scheduled thread…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/72 "2001-05-08T13:08:26Z")
And I can make a woman swoon! Who’d have thought it? At **MY** age! Now, I’m all flustered. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/73 "2001-05-08T14:07:40Z")
I am peeved. I darn all of you to an eternity of vague unpleasantness in heck because I just found out I have to spend the 2nd getting drunk with a bunch of little league coaches. You know, appealing in its own way and all, but what y’all are doing sounds a lot more appealing. Tilt one for me, folks, and here’s hoping I can catch one of these some time again soon… _wanders off in the distance muttering something about ‘baseball’ and ‘turncoats’…_ ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/74 "2001-05-08T14:47:06Z")
Mark me as a maybe. My new company is planning to move offices on 1 June, and since I’m the IT Director, I’m in charge of all the phones and computers. While I don’t expect us to actually move on 1 June, I do have to assume that whatever day we move will cause me to work super-overtime for the following weekend, especially since I have 50 PCs and 10 servers under my control, plus 50 phones and 15 printers, and … Anyway, I’m still hoping to come. But, I dunno right now. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/75 "2001-05-10T14:15:54Z")
Well, I got the web site up. Just a single page but you try doing something fancy whilst babysitting a one year old! So go here: [http://www.wooleysark.com/spring01](http://www.wooleysark.com/spring01) and consider yourself invited! Send me those RSVPs and off we go! Welcome, everyone! Welcome, to the show! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/76 "2001-05-13T23:08:40Z")
A bumpety-bump. Also a bit of a problem. While talking to **phantomdiver** (who will not be coming, as the 2nd’s her wedding anniversary and she don’t do parties) about me having the suburban on the 2nd, I said “well, I’d be driving down to pentagon city station, then to hillsboro and then back to vienna, hopefully”. She, knowing my profound ability to get lost anywhere near Old Town (which this is not, but whatever) and knowing what gas prices are, suggested that I pose one of two suggestions: 1. If **goboy** and **Captain Amazing** could meet me at Vienna Metro (which would be $2.10 one way, or $4.20 roundtrip), or; 2. If they wanted to pay for gas. I would take this to email, but I’m still waiting to hear back from Neidhart as to if s/he wanted to come along, in which case s/he would need to get him/herself to Vienna Metro whenever goboy and Captain Amazing did, or we could arrange something in email. Captain and goboy (and Neidhart, if you want to come along), feel free to get me on AIM or email or whatever and we can discuss things. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/77 "2001-05-14T01:33:16Z")
I can’t believe I missed this thread! I am definitely a solid maybe. I can easily take off work (my manager owes me a Saturday, anyway), but the thing is… I was in a car accident yesterday. I got ran off of a narrow two lane road (in Loch Raven Resevoir for anyone who knows the area.) I filed a police report, called the insurance company, and no one was hurt (thank god! my brother and dog were with me. Swerving and messing up my car was better than a front-end collision). My car is running fine, but the passenger side fender and door is screwed to about $2000 worth of damage. Anyway, I have to put off getting her fixed for two weeks, until school and finals and my vacation is over. BUT then I have to send her away. So after Memorial Day weekend, she’s probably going to the shop for, oh, about three weeks or so. If I still have her then, I’ll be there. If not, maybe I can hitch a ride with Falc or weeirddave or Juaniat Tech (I live in Baltimore County, JT). If not, count me as a no. So, e-mail me directions from Baltimore, if you will, JC. I let you know what’s up. This will be my third Dopefest! Woo hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/78 "2001-05-22T17:19:34Z")
I have just received my work schedule, and I will actually be able to attend this shebang! (And there was much rejoicing throughout the land) Looking forward to meeting those Dopers I have not yet met. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/79 "2001-05-22T19:09:12Z")
You can ride with me, Sara! 🙂 Looking forward to this…I need a small break. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_D\_oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/839c29/32.png) [@Jane\_D\_oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_D_oh)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440/80 "2001-05-22T20:50:39Z")
So I’ll be in Virginia Beach that weekend on business. How far are you from VB and can I get directions? Or, can I get directions that I’ll be able to follow given that I know nothing about the area? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-nova-md-party-dopefest-6-2-01/58440.md?page=5)