Kevin's Watch

when is there a meet in boston? how long will it be? i need plenty of advance for work you see.

Thanks for the pronouncer, Jenn! But guaranteed I'll forget again. Our firm's Boston office is in a high-rise next door to it, and even *that* hasn't helped...

This isn't very close to Stockholm or even Kopenhagen at all!

Ananda wrote:This isn't very close to Stockholm or even Kopenhagen at all!

Nor Helsinki.

(I'd sooo love to participate, but the costs would become nigh-on astronomical. Frag the expenses of living in these backwoods...)

You guys will just have to arrange your own mini-fest and make the rest of us envious.

aliantha wrote:You guys will just have to arrange your own mini-fest and make the rest of us envious.

or we can go to Stockholm I thought your firm has an office there.... Or was it Helsinki?

lorin wrote:

aliantha wrote:You guys will just have to arrange your own mini-fest and make the rest of us envious.

or we can go to Stockholm I thought your firm has an office there.... Or was it Helsinki?

Nope, no Scandinavian offices. I think our closest one would be Brussels. Or Frankfurt maybe.

sgt.null wrote:when is there a meet in boston? how long will it be? i need plenty of advance for work you see.

pay no attention to them girls talkin around us sarge, they never
answer my questions either!
i've no idea when this boston thing is but people keep talking about
it like it's something that's gonna happen so thats why i said boston or bust.
sometime next year i'd assume and i'd also guess sometime around june-ish cause that is normally when we seem to be able to get together, june-ish.
but who knows! i could be makin this all up in my head!!

oh. it seems wayfriend has begun a thread sarge. runnin over there now to check it out.

lucimay wrote:

sgt.null wrote:when is there a meet in boston? how long will it be? i need plenty of advance for work you see.

pay no attention to them girls talkin around us sarge, they never
answer my questions either!
i've no idea when this boston thing is but people keep talking about
it like it's something that's gonna happen so thats why i said boston or bust.
sometime next year i'd assume and i'd also guess sometime around june-ish cause that is normally when we seem to be able to get together, june-ish.
but who knows! i could be makin this all up in my head!!

That's funny, I thought I heard a noise...

There's a thread directly below this one for E-fest 2012 planning. WF's suggesting autumn in New England.

aliantha wrote:

lorin wrote:

aliantha wrote:You guys will just have to arrange your own mini-fest and make the rest of us envious.

or we can go to Stockholm I thought your firm has an office there.... Or was it Helsinki?

Nope, no Scandinavian offices. I think our closest one would be Brussels. Or Frankfurt maybe.

Well, in case your company decided to open a surprise office in Helsinki during the following year, and (from the other thread) if you froze your butts off in Columbus, I must warn you that here be penguins, Frost Giants, polar bears, and arghuleh.

Nah, but we did have 20-30 cm of snow and about -20 Celsius frosts already during the early November last year. Expecting the same now, as trees are shedding their yellow leaves quite eagerly.

little quick on that reply here weren'tcha? guess you missed my edit!

lucimay wrote:little quick on that reply here weren'tcha? guess you missed my edit!

Just a titch, maybe.

Zorm, I grew up near Chicago. A little snow doesn't scare me! (DC drivers in snow -- now *that* scares me...)

I would hope that any international Watchers (or any other Watcher) who would need to save up for an elohimfest would choose to save up for the next one in Albuquerque with SRD to celebrate the release of TLD and the completion of the chrons. The annual meet-ups are great, and I highly recommend them. But if cost is a factor, let's all plan on needing to rent an auditorium because of the number of attendees for the next Albuquerque 'fest.

aliantha wrote: Zorm, I grew up near Chicago. A little snow doesn't scare me! (DC drivers in snow -- now *that* scares me...)

Yup, joking. We actually had a couple of really warm, nice autumns here five-six years back; recall wearing a T-shirt in mid-October and everything remained green for quite a while. Lovely times for hiking.

Finnish drivers are used to snow and don't usually resemble kamikaze fliers in crack, though: we just had 5 months of it (last February, I think the layers reached some 80cm) + some 1,5 months of sleet-rain-ice season when the weather couldn't make up its mind and the roads were constantly like skating rinks. Never missed a day from work, however; the bus traffic was as impeccable as ever, even during those days when the roads remained unplowed.

Here here! Elohimfest 4 ("The Final Lark") is the one 'Fest to have, if you're having only one.

lucimay wrote:little quick on that reply here weren'tcha? guess you missed my edit!

i am off to said thread.

wayfriend wrote:Here here! Elohimfest 4 ("The Final Lark") is the one 'Fest to have, if you're having only one.

Definitely. Though, the conversation about this with my husband will likely go something like, "You want to go to the USA to meet an author of books I don't like and to meet people from the internet that we don't know for our holiday?". Then there will be some shaking of the head and talk of a greek island or italy or spain.

So, I will enjoy the video instead, I think!

when do we get our video - no rush, no pressure, just wish to enjoy again the best such meeting i have ever had.

Ananda wrote:...conversation about this with my husband will likely go something like, "You want to go to the USA to meet an author of books I don't like and to meet people from the internet that we don't know for our holiday?"

Yes. That is precisely what you want to do. Speaking from my own Elohimfest experience, I knew in Real Life only one of the 40+ attendees before arriving in Albuquerque this June. I had a wonderful time, met numerous people who will continue to be real friends, saw some incredible sights, ate well...did I mention I had a wonderful time? My only regret would be that I did not make time to get to know even more of the attendees.

I understand your husband's natural hesitance to commit to a gathering of people he does not know, but we are truly just friends he has yet to meet. As for his not caring for SRD's books, there may be some of the books (or short stories) that he has not yet seen that would be more to his taste. If not, assure him that SRD fandom is not a prerequisite. Many of the spouses who attend are not readers of the books and there is plenty of conversation and fellowship that has nothing to do with SRD's works.

Please come!

What SD said. And please tell your husband that I personally have been to four E-fests and several more mini-fests, and I've yet to meet a Watcher who's an ax murderer.