Re Shejicon. Jane and I are setting up the schedule, making reservations, figuring out necessities, buying food!!!!, arranging tables, figuring out venues and rain plans, and thus far it all looks to be for 3 people besides Jane and me. I have problems with the interface at the Shejidan site, so if you are communicating there, do not assume you are in contact with me. If you cannot post on Wave, write to me as cj at cherryh.com.
Today I need the following. Don’t be shy. Give us at least your screen name and whether or not you have a car, when you are arriving, departing, and whether you can help us transport our [so far 3] people, and how many of them. If I don’t hear from you, I will assume we have 3 people.
If you get rained off you could always pop over to London….
joekc6nlx (accompanied by griffinmoon) – have car, will transport. Arriving Sep 5, Departing Sep 9.
Waiting.
I RSVP’d to ReadyForMore yesterday or the day before by email and assume that I’m one of the three?? I’ll be arriving Friday afternoon (assuming I make all the plane connections) and leaving Monday morning. I have a car reserved and it’s pretty cheap for just a weekend rental, so I can get myself to and from from the airport and other places as necessary. Have GPS, will travel…
Oh, please come everybody. I’ve been lurking around here for months and I have been looking forward to the opportunity to put some human beings to the screen personas. It’s been 40 years since I was last in Spokane so I consider this an Important Occasion!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Wild_Teasel.jpg
Nice pic. You can see how the Teasel that is my gravatar got her name. She’s plenty wild at times too:)
Ok: we have—and I will edit this list of ‘certainly coming’ as we go: 1. Teegan—car one; 2. Joe—car two:3. Teasel—car three: 4. Chris/Votary: 5; Karen/Warrior: 6-7. the Readys—car four, 8 Griffinmoon 9. jane: 10. me—car five. Ten people. Five cars. each with about 4 seats. I think our count is shaping up to be 10, and that means we’ve got enough cars.
I’d previously indicated I was driving down and my car would be available. Was that one that was already figuring in to your calculations? I expect to arrive Friday afternoon in time for the pool party depending on whether, or rather how much I am sidetracked by scenery.
Griffinmoon – Sue is with me, too.
I don’t have any information on chobotuck…Associates, can you help me find out gravatar and home state, please? Also, have not received a reply from Trevin who said he and Nancy were coming, as well.
I’ll get as many of the name tags as I can, but we’ll probably end up using a blank tag and felt tip pen for some folks.
chobotuck is Teasel. That’s what happens when you’ve got several email and blog links going simultaneously. I haven’t heard of anybody wanting a ride down from BC so there’s just me.
Okay, I’ve got your name tag ready…thanks….
I wish I could come, but unfortunately, funds preclude it this year.
If my situation improves significantly over the rest of this year and through next summer, then maybe next year.
Very frustrating, but I’ve gotta go with what I’ve got. I’d love to get to meet you and Jane and fellow fans.
In spirit, of course. 🙂 In real-time, not so likely. 🙁
p.s. I have to return this costume at the end of the month, so I wouldn’t be able to just fly there. 😉
🙁 I can’t come! boo. I had so hoped I could, but life is intervening again. We just had a brush with our AC unit. Came home from work and it was 83 degrees in the house and when I said something about to this my retired husband, he said: ‘huh?’. After one place said we can get there Thursday, the other sent a youngster over who got there about 6:30 [now 85 in the house, windows finally opened after a monsoon downpour] and thankfully only had to replace two blown fuses on the unit. But then husband left this morning back up to the Portland/Vancouver WA area with one of the Incident Teams to got play fire for the next 2 weeks. We’re not sure where yet — he might know tomorrow.
So, boo, hiss, just not gonna be able to pull a trip up there off in early September. However, I’ve got my name in the hat for a job in either Libby, MT or Roseburg OR, so next year I could be around the corner and oh would so love to be there!
Sad for people who can’t make it. We may be a very small party, however.
This is apropos of absolutely nothing recently posted, but I ran across this this morning. CJ I know you do some transcriptions for Ancestry and some of the gang do too. If anyone is interested, the Smithsonian is asking for folk to do transcriptions and apparently you can from your home! Here’s the story behind this — could be fun, certainly could be interesting!
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-wants-you-help-transcribe-its-collections-180952333/#oj67gpEY551ch8Yj.01
I was so looking forward to this; I even had enough frequent flier miles to upgrade to first class. Just in the last two weeks I have been hit with almost $2000.00 on dental bills. The temptation to say ‘screw it’ is great, but having teeth is a priority…..I guess! So unless I should suddenly win the lottery I am going to have to pass this year!
Like Paul and Ben I will be with you in spirit!
ow! on wallet AND mouth.
One SO wishes… (channeling a bit of Cajeiri there) but circumstances prevent. Our annual get-together got downsized when we lost access to our main venue, but a bit of family bad news came along. I may have to abruptly return to the mainland if my father takes another turn for the worse, so travel plans are shot right now. Regrets!
So sorry to hear.
CJ,
ReadyGuy and I will be attending. We will be driving, arriving mid-day Friday and leaving at leisure Monday morning. We will have room for two in our car once we unpack. I know of one other person who might show up beyond those already committed, and am talking with her by email… slow process. I’ve been pretty quiet on the site because I went back to work as a consultant working 72 hour+ weeks, but the job ends next week and I’ll be FREE…
I have name tags for CJ, Jane, WoW, Griffinmoon,Teasel, Teegan, Ready4more, readyGuy, and a few who said they were coming, but have not yet given me their avatars or home states….patience is a virtue (“I’ll buy everyone a beer”, he lied.)
We are now (to my relief) shaping up to have a group. Sorry to ring the alarm bells, but when you’re making plans for food and seating for the back yard, and getting people to various places and which restaurants can seat us without a crisis—this is very helpful! Thank you. Keep adding—we’re ok with more, so long as people keep telling us we have cars! 😉
I’m only concerned as to whether Griffinmoon is Karen or Christine or a third person. Working with a mix of screen names and street names is confusing.
Ah, thank you, Joe. Griffinmoon is Sue!
I’ll have the so-far complete list after work.
Karen/Chris are Warrior/Votary
Ah! Thank you! YOu’ve been a great help building a fire under this project, really-truly. Our July and August are extremely overbooked, and I’ve only now begun to realize we’re nearly there and we need plans! I know places, I have phone numbers easy for me to call, and if I can just get a good picture of the group, we’re going to make it fine!