About this picnic.

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A month or so, I was semi-invited to a picnic near Waco that is presumably scheduled for June 17th. I dutifully wrote to the person extending the invitation inquiring on directions to the event. I've heard nothing in response, so wonder if I've now been uninvited due to my polly persuasion, or even due to the countless other abnormalities in my personality.

If I'm still invited, I'd like to know if I should make cole-slaw in addition to potato salad. If I'm still invited, I need detailed instructions on how to get there on a cloudy day. I have no sense of direction and could easily find myself on the road to Waco which turns into the road to Oklahoma. If I'm still invited, I'd like to know about the dress-code. Klutz that I am, I typically wear an already stained T-shirt and shorts to picnics, so as to not concern myself with attempts at demonstrating grace I don't have. Should I wear gym shoes or sandals? I can't run bases in sandals, but sandals are cooler.

If I've been uninvited, would someone please let me know?

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), June 03, 2000

Answers

Hi Anita! Don't know nuttin bout party, BUT you can check in to #tb2k {on AfterNet server} occasionally and somebody will pop in who knows more.

Miss those chats! IRC is much better chat software.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), June 03, 2000.


I don't recall if I was the person who extended the invitation or not.

But I would make the following comments:

1. Please explain what a semi-invite is.

2. If we start deciding that we are all gonna communicate or socialize with each other based on "abnormalities in personality", then we are ALL pretty much done in before we start. NONE of us would be able to talk, much less ever socialize in person. And, there would be NO fun at all had.

3. Please explain "dress code", is this something you do to a program? I've fancied up some code before, but never dressed any up.

I, personally, will be impressed if everyone is just *dressed*. With this bunch of eclectic goof-balls anything is possible.

[GB is pretty impressed with someone who had the drive to want to play an outside game in the heat of the Texas day]

-- Greybear (greybear@home.com), June 03, 2000.


Yeah, Nita, I bet you're still invited. They even asked me and Kit to come, so it's pretty easy to figger they aint none too picky.

'Course, they told ME that is was gonna be in Topeka. I wonder,.........

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-- Lon Frank (lgal@exp.net), June 03, 2000.


DRESS CODE?? I have to DRESS??

-- helen (oh@no.not.that), June 03, 2000.

Greybear:

I think it WAS you who semi-invited me. Semi-invite means that I remember a picnic being discussed, but having only a semi-memory, can't remember if I was actually invited. Since I e-mailed you asking for directions and never received them, I question whether the invitation still holds. I've long since lost your E-mail address, but mine has always been available. You seem to be unaware that even if I had explicit directions, I would need weeks to have those directions decoded into something I could understand, not to mention the days I'd need to simply ponder them.

Helen:

Clothing is required unless one wants to stick to seats and/or obtain splinters sitting on a rough, wooden picnic bench.

A&L:

I have no idea what chat you're referencing. I use ICQ for close friends and family and have no interest in loading MIRC. If there's a public chat facility available where my question will be answered, I've yet to hear of it. FRLian chat has been empty each time I've gone.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), June 04, 2000.



Anita, once the temperature reaches the speed of a good fast ball (and Wilbur Scott assures me that has been the case for Texas for the last couple weeks), there's no way I'm running for anything except another beer. I'm counting on sandals being the appropriate attire.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), June 04, 2000.

Anita, you may have no interest in loading mIRC, but you might change your mind after chatting on it ... very good software! Easy painless download, quick customization, cool chats! So weird to have years of discussion about computer stuff and have resistance to software ... LOL ... we only procrastinated a year before sending in for IRCle registration. But it's too good to pass up!

Anyway, if curiosity gets the better of you, it's
#tb2k on an afternet server

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), June 04, 2000.


Okay, so I understand we now have: no dresses at all, undressed code, sandals only, scandals only, scandals aplenty, no dress code, some dress code, and partially dressed uncoded....what's next?

Nudists underneath the bridges of Manhatten Island?

Shoot, if it gets any more interesting, I'll have to figure out a way of getting there freon from whereon I'm not over here!

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), June 05, 2000.


Well Robert, consider this YOUR semi-invite.

You can showup in a Semi, wearing semi-formal, or semi-drunk, or however, wherever, or in whatsoever manner you please.

We will shurley need an Engineer to help us bridge over our many and varied problems.

-GB

-- Greybear (greybear@home.com), June 05, 2000.


Just in case the folks attending this picnic visit this forum more often than their E-mail accounts [guilty here], I'm bringin' potato salad, cole slaw, paper bowls, some plastic cutlery, and some paper napkins. Oh...I'm also bringing my own beer. [I don't want to take a chance on aged giggle juice.] Let's hope it doesn't rain. If you miss the above foods, it means I got lost and went back home.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), June 16, 2000.


We've already got paper plates, bowls, napkins, cutlery, and cups so no need to bring any...

Looks like the weather will be cooperating, too! However, the picnic won't be cancelled in case of rain. . .

-- Brooke (Happiness@Hill.top), June 16, 2000.


What rain?

Can you send some rain to GA?

We got a 3 inch rainstorm yesterday - that was the first shower in four weeks.

You those 3 inch showers...where you get on edrop evert three inches.

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Enjoy the party - hoist a toast for me please!

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), June 16, 2000.


Robert, do you want that toast buttered or plain?

-- helen (to@s.t), June 16, 2000.

Well, they're prolly all there, having fun, talking, laughing...

I think I'll go out for a while too :-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), June 17, 2000.


Well, *I* had a good time. I was disappointed that I didn't get to meet Brooks, Helen, Lon, and Kit, but it was definitely worth the drive to spend a day with the folks who came. I only got slightly lost on the way down, but got SERIOUSLY lost on the way home. I knew I should have started for home earlier, but there was just so much to talk about that each time I started to leave, I found myself focusing on another conversation. I ended up lost on unfamiliar roads, in the dark, wondering just WHERE I'd gone wrong. It felt good to reach home safely and stretch out on the couch.....ZZZZZZZZZZZ.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), June 18, 2000.


Laughter . . . food (!). . . Great conversation. . . 'seeing' old friends for the first time. . . making new ones. . .laughter. . . thinking of those who couldn't make it, but were with us in FRLian spirit. . .

We had a wonderful time. . . and hope everyone else did, too. . .

-- Brooke (Happiness@Hill.top), June 19, 2000.


Sniff, sniff. Moan, moan, sob. <> <>

(PS.. I didn't get my toast (or even a soggy, dried out, preserved, day-old bagel) as an email attachment Fed-Ex'ed to UPS to go overnight to USPS to get sent o'er the Internet to DHL for shipment to the satellite.)

Sniff, sniff....y'all feeling guilty yet?

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), June 19, 2000.


Robert, at least you've been able to meet a fruitcake or two... On my one journey where I might have been able to, they were all too busy to see me :-(

So just join with me in bugging Brooke and Helen into planning the KC get together for October (if they plan it early enough for me to arrange time off, I *may* be able to make it there).

At the risk of offending the Jewish among us : "This year in KC!" ;-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), June 19, 2000.


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