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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:16 am
by sgt.null
money is tight and julie's birthday is october 10th. so we are hoping to do something for her. (it's her 50th)
need to win the lottery...
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:59 am
by lorin
sgt.null wrote:money is tight and julie's birthday is october 10th. so we are hoping to do something for her. (it's her 50th)
need to win the lottery...
gift suggestion for Julie's 50th..........two round trip tickets to Boston.
just kidding
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:17 pm
by sgt.null
she has to work that week, her boss is taking some class. i could go if i had extra $$$, but the surgery/time off made that difficult.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:37 pm
by wayfriend
lorin wrote:gift suggestion for Julie's 50th..........two round trip tickets to Boston.
Great idea. But then we need to work on getting sarge up here.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:02 pm
by lorin
wayfriend wrote:lorin wrote:gift suggestion for Julie's 50th..........two round trip tickets to Boston.
Great idea. But then we need to work on getting sarge up here.
I'm in. 1 penny for each of his 500,000 posts that should be up by Qctober. That should cover it.
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:26 am
by sgt.null
lorin - if only i could trade my wgd's for real gold bullion.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:10 pm
by wayfriend
Sticking to Cape Cod (but not necessarilly Falmouth) it looks like we could get something that sleeps 10 to 16 for $250-$500 per night. (Math: $20 to $50 per night per body.) And even get walking distance to the beach. I haven't made any calls yet.
Just for flavor ...
www.weneedavacation.com/PropertyDetail. ... rtyID=9758
www.weneedavacation.com/PropertyDetail. ... tyID=14089
www.weneedavacation.com/PropertyDetail. ... tyID=17308
www.weneedavacation.com/PropertyDetail. ... rtyID=4874
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:44 am
by aliantha
I'm not seeing anything to object to. (I think I like the 2nd one the best. But I get that these are just examples.)
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:17 am
by JazFusion
$20-$50 a night I can swing for a night or two. I also volunteer to make an enormous breakfast one morning for everyone. I'm still planning on being there, unless things change last minute. When are the dates again?
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:13 am
by lorin
JazFusion wrote:$20-$50 a night I can swing for a night or two. I also volunteer to make an enormous breakfast one morning for everyone. I'm still planning on being there, unless things change last minute. When are the dates again?
no changes allowed. You MUST be there. Or we will all come stay with you.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:04 pm
by wayfriend
It's getting to be time to cowboy up, I hate to say. I need some commitments from people so I can make a reservation (presuming I should).
It's probably best to use PMs or emails. Please contact me soon if you'd like to throw some money towards renting a house, and let me know what you can do. ALSO please contact me if you'd like to stay at the rented house, regardless of anything other considerations. (I know we had people counting on an earlier R&B situation, and I don't want to lose anyone.)
I'll see if we can make it all work out. I will post back on how it's proceeding in general. We should try to wrap this up shortly, so that I can make a reservation.
Let me make up a completely arbitrary deadline of Aug 1.
[PS]
What I need to know is:
- how many people
- which days and nights
- what dollars you can contribute
We are going to need an amount somewhere in the order of $1000-$1500. What we end up with decides what we can get. And remember we want everyone there, even those that were counting on free lodging in order to make it.
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:11 am
by sgt.null
I am out. another surgery is burning up a week's worth of time.
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:39 am
by Sherman Landlearner
No way I can come, but some of the new guys are pretty techie.
If you all get cameras, I can just PM you instructions to link them all. You'll probably be a bit cheaper that way. Actually, if you hit up a school, some smaller ones will loan you old laptop carts, and if you hook up cameras, each Watchy gets their own screen, and it'll be pretty similar.
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:09 pm
by wayfriend
wayfriend wrote:I need some commitments from people so I can make a reservation (presuming I should).
I got a few responses, but the amount of money that people are willing to chip in for a house, as far as I can confirm, is far less than $500. So I am not going to make any reservations unless this changes greatly. Possibly someone else would have better luck.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:46 pm
by dlbpharmd
It looks to me that we're going to have to cancel this one.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:58 pm
by aliantha
Yeah, and it makes me sad.
Bah.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:21 pm
by wayfriend
I think at this time of year it's hard getting people to respond in the forum. (Alas, not many people attach an e-mail address to their profile.)
I wouldn't have pulled the cancel plug.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:46 pm
by aliantha
Well, you're the host, Way -- if you don't want to cancel yet, then don't.
Maybe we can get danlo to spam the membership again...
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:17 pm
by wayfriend
aliantha wrote:Well, you're the host, Way
Well, I volunteered to rent the house. Is this some sort of retro-active promotion that precedes lynching the executive officers responsible for this mess?
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:51 pm
by High Lord Tolkien
I've been pretty silent despite living in the area, sorry.
My job makes free time unpredictable so I don't even want to say I'm in.
Fortunately I can drive where ever you guys end up so I'm hoping......