New England Memorial Day Meetup 2011 - Roll Call

[Suu]

We may need to make a sticky thread for planning and keep the first post updated with people, their arrivals, and the itinerary.

[leln]

So here's what we have to work out:

Who is definitely in? I think the Stage Coach Inn can sleep 10 - probably 12 if people don't mind doing the couch or sleeping bag thing.

Here's the definite list, coupled by bedroom

1. Me
2. ??? (probably eve or cainad, but I am reserving the possibility that I may bring a lady friend?)

3. Squid
4. Mr. Squid

5. Richter
6. Suu

7. Schwarzwälderkirschtorte
8. Triple Zero

9. Ratatosk
10. Sjaante

11 Luna
12 Cuttleface
13 Cainad

IT IS TOTALLY COOL if more people want to come - but we'll have to get rooms at Captain Grant's. They list their Spring Rates as $89 to $159 ( if you split it, that's still pretty cheap for a hotel room) - there's a chance we can sweet talk them into the cheap side of that since we're renting the entire Stagecoach Inn..

I didn't get counted in the original signup? Dammit. If there's still space available I'd love to tag along. I have a sleeping bag and I don't mind pulling up a patch of floor. I can definitely attend Saturday/Sunday and I'll bring booze and baked goods with me.

[Suu]

Just because a house "sleeps" 10, that doesn't mean that you can't shove more people into the room.

-Suu
Remember, most hotel rooms only "sleep" 4.

[Cramulus]

We may need to make a sticky thread for planning and keep the first post updated with people, their arrivals, and the itinerary.

good call

I didn't get counted in the original signup? Dammit. If there's still space available I'd love to tag along. I have a sleeping bag and I don't mind pulling up a patch of floor. I can definitely attend Saturday/Sunday and I'll bring booze and baked goods with me.

ahhh sorry! Didn't mean to leave you out.

Just because a house "sleeps" 10, that doesn't mean that you can't shove more people into the room.

-Suu
Remember, most hotel rooms only "sleep" 4.

it sounds like you're volunteering to put up the extras? 

[Triple Zero]

Ok I just read this. Sorry guys I've been having a nasty cold the past week (not so much nasty as fucking persistent, it won't go away!!) so I've been unable to keep up with a lot of stuff.

I'll get the payment stuff sorted ASAP, this week, probably before Thursday. I think Paypal will work.

Squiddy, you say you're landing in NY before the weekend? Because us too, except a few days/week earlier I suppose. But no, wait, if we're going out with Suu on Friday, that means we'll already have left NY by then. Ok I really gotta sit down and plot some dates and locations tomorrow with my GF whether my head's full of snot or not (and yes I'll post them).

I'm really not good at figuring out all this planning (placenames and distances and such are slowly getting less confusing though), and Kirschtorte--while brilliant at planning holidays--is not as fluent in English as me.

I might have ignored or missed some important questions in between the chatter, so maybe you (Suu/Cram/Squid) can re-ask the important things you really are itching to know? I'll try to answer them as best as possible tomorrow. Also, I dunno, would a Teamspeak session perhaps be useful to clear up and decide on some stuff? Or maybe a one-on-one Skype talk would be better cause Teamspeak gets kinda chaotic, right?

[Suu]

We may need to make a sticky thread for planning and keep the first post updated with people, their arrivals, and the itinerary.

good call

I didn't get counted in the original signup? Dammit. If there's still space available I'd love to tag along. I have a sleeping bag and I don't mind pulling up a patch of floor. I can definitely attend Saturday/Sunday and I'll bring booze and baked goods with me.

ahhh sorry! Didn't mean to leave you out.

Just because a house "sleeps" 10, that doesn't mean that you can't shove more people into the room.

-Suu
Remember, most hotel rooms only "sleep" 4.

it sounds like you're volunteering to put up the extras?  

They pay their own way, and I tape them to the wall. How's that for putting them up?

But if they are very strict about capacity, and someone else really wants to go, I'll bow out. I have schoolwork anyway.

[Suu]

Zippletits: Let me know what time you want to Skype. I need to reinstall it, myself. I wish my German fluency was better for you guys.

Um, tomorrow I have class and then work, so I'll be out after 4pm my time. So it will be very late for you, however, Thursday I can get on during my afternoon here as I have no morning class, so I'm out of work at 12:30pm.

[Triple Zero]

If you have a landline phone number, we can also call that with Skype, rates are real cheap for calling landlines all over the world. We'll do that tomorrow then. And speaking English is no problem for her, so don't worry about the German (you can practice on her when we meet, though).

Kirschtorte will be back home today and tomorrow at 16.30 our time / 10.30 your time. I hope I can catch Cramulus on IRC today, (but you're usually online during that time, right Cram?).

I talked to her this morning in the short bit between waking up and her leaving for work and it seems we're both unclear on what the plan actually is, for the whole weekend, but on different bits, and right now it's really stressing me out. And this is just a few days of the time we'll spend in the USA. It'll probably all be fine.

[Suu]

There will be NO SHORTAGE of awesome that we will provide for our visitors here in New England. The house is just a highlight. 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I've decided that I definitely want to come. I'll see if Villager is down also, which will solve the problem of me getting there.

[Cuddlefish]

Why for I get bumped off list? I is definite.

[Cramulus]

you are #12 on that list

[Cuddlefish]

you are #12 on that list

Oops. So used to being reffered to as Dimo. I didn't notice...

Also, lol cuddleface.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Cram- how much would you like from stragglers like me? I saw some talk about it a couple of posts ago, but not sure if you weighed in.

[Cramulus]

Stragglers: If you're sleeping over, you've got two options

1) ask Suu / Richter if you can crash on their floor
2) get a room in Capt. Grant's Inn (which is the main Bed and Breakfast building.. we're renting the stage coach inn, owned by the same people, right next door)

I'm hesitant to start taking money from people if we can't guarantee you space, and we've already got two or people sleeping in the living room. I mean I'm sure we CAN cram more people in there, but I am not volunteering people's floorspace - especially if they're traveling 1000+ miles to get here.


edit to add: It sounds like we have a number of stragglers... I bet we can get a group rate at Captain Grant's.