In this thread we will hem and haw over establishing the date for this summer’s Dopefest. In early summer we will panic and scramble for a free weekend but by then it will be too late. Two of us will get together at a very large table in a location nobody really likes, and we will drink beer and wonder where everybody else is.
I say we start panicking around the 3rd weekend in July. Is that good for everyone? 
If it takes place after Comic-Con (July 23-26), there is a decent chance the wife and I will be in the area.
Hmm… third weekend in July is actually 17-18-19, so that might work.
Remember, there’s still plenty of time left to procrastinate!
We have scheduled our bone-numbing panic for some time in July. At that point we’ll all rush around like lunatics and wonder why we didn’t plan the Dopefest earlier.
I think you have this one dialled, dude! Great job!
Whereabouts in the PNW is this not going to take place?
I’d suggest that it not start out at Ride the Ducks of Seattle, and then not continue to a nice steak & seafood house.
Well, of course not. We’d have to plan well in advance to get reservations during the month of July. Pfft, who’s got time for that?
I know…why don’t everyone come over to my place and help me get the tree branch off the top of the (much shorter) garden shed?
Is this where I complain that not ALL the PNW Dopers are in Seattle and perhaps a more central location should be chosen for the Dopefest we won’t manage to arrange or attend?
If it’s in Seattle, people won’t be able to make it. If it’s somewhere else, nobody will come. 
(Actually, Seattle is ‘more central’ to me!)
Just had better not be in or around SeaTac or the Olympic penis-ula the first 2 weeks of August, or I’m gonna have to change some reservations.
Well, SmartAleq, we once held a PNW Dopefest in Riverside Park in Centralia. It’s at exit 82 — about equidistant from Seattle and Portland — and it has covered areas and picnic-barbecue facilities.
Some people drove up from Oregon for that; some down from Seattle. I don’t know if there’s a better compromise location. As with any compromise, you’d pick up some people and lose others.
The question is: how many people from various locations are we trying to accommodate?
Centralia’s not bad–I just avoid going to Seattle like homegrown plague. I had to inventory the Plaid Pantries up there which involved staying a week at a time, then had to go up there pretty often when I was a courier as well and the damned traffic drives me apeshit! I used to talk friends into riding up with me on deliveries so I could use the diamond lanes…