No problem, Sarah!
The updated list:
**CONFIRMED:
aenea
Satan
Drain bead
Cabbage
ultress
Babar714
Polycarp (+1)
Myndephuquer
SmoothOperator (+1)
SqrlCub
dcnewsman
pldennison
Peta Tzunami
Surgoshan
RTFirefly
TENTATIVE:
Nen
D Marie
Mjollnir
weirddave
Silo**
Yer pal,
Satan
I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
One month, three weeks, two days, 16 hours, 8 minutes and 26 seconds.
2146 cigarettes not smoked, saving $268.36.
Life saved: 1 week, 10 hours, 50 minutes.
Okay, add me to the tentative list. I’m considering driving down for this collective lunacy… Satan, can you email me with some cheap places to stay?
Falcon: I shall gladly send you some information, however, I know you were offered in the other thread info on a place where a bunch of your fellow DC bretheren are also staying. So, flag me down on AIM if you still want some and I’ll do some digging.
Peta: Please come! I’ll give you a dollar… 
Here is the count now, adding Falcon to the tentative list (though I know she’ll be here!) and pldennison and Peta to the tentative list since I don’t think theyy are definit yet:
**CONFIRMED:
aenea
Satan
Drain Bead
Cabbage
ultress
Babar714
Polycarp (+1)
Myndephuquer
SmoothOperator (+1)
SqrlCub
dcnewsman
Surgoshan
RTFirefly
TENTATIVE:
Nen
D Marie
Mjollnir
weirddave
Silo
pldennison
Peta Tzunami
Falcon**
Is anyone else from DC looking at coming down here? Is everyone on the confirmed list indeed coming? Will anyone reply to this even if it’s just to nod in the affirmative? Anyone? Bueller?
Let’s see if we can get 20 Dopers together for this!! What is the Doper gathering record anyway, huh?
Yer pal,
Satan
TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING:
One month, three weeks, three days, 4 hours, 5 minutes and 56 seconds.
2166 cigarettes not smoked, saving $270.85.
Life saved: 1 week, 12 hours, 30 minutes.
Minor change of someone whom I forgot:
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**
**CONFIRMED:
aenea
Satan
Drain Bead
Cabbage
ultress
Babar714
Polycarp (+1)
Myndephuquer
SmoothOperator (+1)
SqrlCub
dcnewsman
Surgoshan
RTFirefly
TENTATIVE:
Nen
D Marie
Mjollnir
weirddave
Silo
pldennison
Peta Tzunami
Falcon
John Corrado**
Yer pal,
Satan
TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING:
One month, three weeks, three days, 4 hours, 18 minutes and 13 seconds.
2167 cigarettes not smoked, saving $270.90.
Life saved: 1 week, 12 hours, 35 minutes.
Bri –
Clarification, please.
The summer shindig is happening when? Post Aug. 18, I’m in.
Pre Aug. 18, y’all suck.
If someone could e-mail me the plans, I’d 'preciate it, as I could then roger up or beg off.
**CONFIRMED:
aenea Babar714 dcnewsman
Satan Polycarp (+1) Surgoshan
Drain Bead Myndephuquer RTFirefly
Cabbage SmoothOperator (+1) pldennison
ultress SqrlCub
TENTATIVE:
Nen weirddave Falcon
D Marie Silo John Corrado
Mjollnir Peta Tzunami**
Yer pal,
Satan
TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING:
One month, three weeks, three days, 4 hours, 39 minutes and 42 seconds.
2167 cigarettes not smoked, saving $270.97.
Life saved: 1 week, 12 hours, 35 minutes.
Way to ignore me, Bri.
I won’t ingore you, Chief! This one is before August 17th. However, we’re planning to do ANOTHER one after you get back, so we can all meet you. Sound good?
You posted earlier that you are marking in your day planner the last weekend of August, and the first weekend of Sept. as being available for an East Coast gathering.
Are you still free those dates? That’s when we were planning your shindig.
If anyone in the Raleigh area tonight (Friday, June 2, 2000) would like to check out a hopefully cool Godzilla-esque Film Festival starring ::drumroll:: Rodan, cruise by the Museum of Natural Sciences downtown between 6:30 pm and 9:00 pm.
Very short notice, I know, but it’s worth a mention.
Otherwise, see you guys in 2 weeks!
http://www.naturalsciences.org/calendar/events.html#fridays
If it sucks, that’s even better…
Gotcha. Cool.
Now you all have time to get together, chip in and get me a really great present!
You guys are so thoughtful.
Yer pal,
Satan
TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING:
One month, three weeks, four days, 19 hours, 29 minutes and 27 seconds.
2232 cigarettes not smoked, saving $279.06.
Life saved: 1 week, 18 hours, 0 minutes.
Ok folks, anyone who hasn’t confirmed yet, please let us know your plans.
Anyone else that feels inclined and is not already on the list, feel free to join in.
Over on the F3MB, Falcon rather emphatically said she was coming.
Over on the Balt-DC Dopefest thread, John Corrado yesterday said he had a conflict and wouldn’t be joining the Raleigh trip.
That’s all’s I know, for now.
**CONFIRMED:
aenea Babar714 dcnewsman
Satan Polycarp (+1) Surgoshan
Drain Bead Myndephuquer RTFirefly
Cabbage SmoothOperator (+1) pldennison
ultress SqrlCub Falcon
TENTATIVE:
Nen weirddave D Marie
Silo Mjollnir Peta Tzunami**
Okay, I will be making sure we get a table for 20 to ensure room for guests, surprise attendees, any tentative folks who make it without telling us in advance and the strippers…
Yer pal,
Satan
TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING:
Two months, 40 minutes and 0 seconds.
2441 cigarettes not smoked, saving $305.14.
Life saved: 1 week, 1 day, 11 hours, 25 minutes.
Well . . . .
I have to work that Saturday until 7PM, but I could be in Raliegh by 8:30 that evening if anyone thinks this “Shindig” will go that long. (Oh, and provided anyone cares if I come or not.) Not sure how to work this, but I would really enjoy meeting some of you.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Just as a reminder, unless any of this has changed. Aenea or Satan please verify.
The Specifics:
Saturday June 17, starting at 11:30am until 2:30pm.
Informal gatherings may take place later by mutual consent.
Barton Hayes Grill & Fountain
2000 Fairview Rd
Raleigh, NC 27608
(919) 856-8551
Detailed directions can be provided of course.
For those that are interested, the DC fest is the same date, but will be in the evening.
Several of the attendees of Satan’s Shindig will be driving back to DC in the afternoon.
Nothingman, if you could attend either gathering, you would be very welcome. Most of us are meeting for the first time, so you would not be a stranger alone.
Satan, I’m assuming you’ll be one of them! After all, your ass is the most (in)famous piece of anatomy on the boards…