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Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:16 am

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...

Post by **lorin** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:59 am

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

Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:17 pm

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.

Post by **wayfriend** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:37 pm

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.

Post by **lorin** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:02 pm

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.

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:26 am

lorin - if only i could trade my wgd's for real gold bullion.

Post by **wayfriend** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:10 pm

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

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:44 am

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.)

Post by **JazFusion** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:17 am

$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?

Post by **lorin** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:13 am

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.

Post by **wayfriend** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:04 pm

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.

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:11 am

I am out. another surgery is burning up a week's worth of time.

Post by **Sherman Landlearner** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:39 am

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.

Post by **wayfriend** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:09 pm

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.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:46 pm

It looks to me that we're going to have to cancel this one.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:58 pm

Yeah, and it makes me sad.

Bah.

Post by **wayfriend** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:21 pm

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.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:46 pm

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...

Post by **wayfriend** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:17 pm

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?

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:51 pm

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......

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