Yay! Thanks for all your work on this, heebie.

I echo 1.

The home owner has 24 hours to decline my offer, but I submitted my credit card info and everything. So there's an outside chance the VRBO listing could change, if that happens.

Yippie! Thank you!

Too bad for me, but thank you for doing all this work!

Woo!

Since we're in the DC area bonsaisue and I plan to attend.

Seconding 5.

Woo! Thanks for all the work you've done on this, h-g.

So the plan is, we all meet up at the Rolling Thunder thingie and have a "Four Dead in Ohio" dance-off?

You should have weighted the responses by how fun the respondent was.

I'd like to second 8.

Ooh. DC area is good, since my parents are there, but Memorial Day weekend competes with my wife's major annual event. We'll see how this shakes out.

God damn it I don't even see my actual vote of Palm Springs or my telepathic write in of the Wacken Open Air Festival listed. I demand a recount.

I said I would attend a meet-up in Labs' colon, but apparently that didn't register either.

13: You're not satisfied that we're following your serious advice?

DC makes sense, but really Palm Springs or Wacken would have been the tits.

What happened to the entry where people indicated how much utility they would enjoy by attending the meetup? A blip in the mouse orgasms could swing it for PGH.

There have been plenty of opportunities to comment on how the survey should be structured. What's done is done.

Thanks, heebie!

(But I probably won't know if I can make it until May.)

Well, you'll be a lot closer then than you are now.

In addition to the WMYBSALBism of 17, allow me to append the general sentiment of 5-8-11.

(originally had it as "LBism" but that would be confusing.)

Is this the thread where we ignore all the previous work and start hashing out whether Unfoggedydodecacon should be in Palm Springs vs Portland, possibly on Memorial Day Weekend?

I say Portland. Though the sex grotto is tempting.

Somebody should set up a survey or something.

My sisters appear to be changing their minds about which weekend they want to descend on me, so I may be able to come after all.

Ima going try to hammer this out.

Hey, great!

I'm sad it's not Pittsburgh or Baltimore since they'd be so much less expensive, and I've never been to either, but the vote's been taken.

And thank you for all your hard work, heebie.

Yay! I am so there!

Hoping /planning to attend with ms bill. Thanks Heebie!

heebs, you are awesome for having done the work on this.

On logistics:

I assume the big party will be Saturday night? M/tch and I will be available during the day for grocery shopping and set up.

We should set up a Paypal account so people can kick in for the cost of the rental, food, and booze. I know the trip itself is going to be a big expense for a lot of people, and it should definitely be sliding scale. Maybe someone can come up with a back-of-the-envelope budget so we can determine a suggested contribution?

I'll definitely kick in a higher amount. (Though how much higher depends on whether I get the far less lucrative but far preferable job I'm hoping for.)

I'll volunteer to put together some ideas for other get-togethers over the weekend.

What's the best way for us to keep track of things? Something like Google Docs but that doesn't require everyone to have gmail?

Prairie Home Companion is at Wolf Trap on Friday night and Sat night every year that weekend. Sure, it is cheesy. But fun.

I will have my daughter but we are coming up for at least some of the day stuff.

This is a pretty straightforward way to keep track of stuff--just a shared text file, with colored text to track who wrote what. Plus, I'm sure the name will annoy Halford.

I set the license to proprietary, because irony.

I plan to be there, and I plan to drive. If anyone from the NYC area wants to drive down with me, please email me at /c/oran@g/ail.com, where the '/' stands for the letter 'm'.

set up a Paypal account

This is a good idea. It may be that relatively well-heeled commenters who have no plans to be there would like to subsidize part of the trip for less affluent commenters. Not me, mind you, but maybe Halford.

It's okay, VW. We know that budget cuts have left UC professors exceptionally un-affluent.

The PiratePad thing seems pretty useful.

There will be a paypal account. There will also be a forthcoming thread on various things like: how many people want to stay onsite? Is there interest in setting up a group baby-sitter? Etc.

This is tempting.

Are there folks in D.C. who can offer a bed or couch? (Or have a friend who can offer a bed or couch?) Please post at the link in 30.

ا!

Dagger aleph!

Or are friends with a bed, or couch? Because that's weird, but also cute, and maybe somebody would make a documentary.

I am fond of a jug. Does that count?

Thanks for putting all this together, Heebie. Glad DC won, albeit mostly for selfish reasons. Sorry to all the losers. Wait, there must be a better way to say that.

38: Probably. Maybe even two, if we ever manage to find the pump for our air mattress, but very probably at least one place to sleep. I'll add a note to that effect at the link in 30 after I (a) check to make sure, and (b) get home tonight, because the link in 30 isn't working for me. Stupid work filters, keeping me from some kinds of time-wasting but not others...

Nosflow and Heebie!

I can offer a room, or more exactly a mattress in a (nice) basement, with own bathroom. Could fit a couple not experiencing any problems with the relationship.

I can offer a room, or more exactly a mattress in a (nice) basement, with own bathroom. Could fit a couple not experiencing any problems with the relationship.

One room, two posts.

40: Thanks for making that explicit (posting for nosflow).

I have a thing in another city that I have just realized is on the 29th, but am hoping to work this out anyway. I have a place to stay.

oh holy fucking shit you motherfuckers. it's in DC??!? fuck. OK, prolly I'll fly in just myself from narnia, and then I can buy booze, and hook them up with reasonably priced drug dealer (just kidding! sort of!) and offer people a place to sleep. jesus. oh, wait, my husband says no way in a million years because I'm so sick and I can't even get out of bed or do my lame physical therapy. that's fucking negative thinking, man. I'ma be fine by then. beside, fucking physical therapy is lame.

Living social currently has a "deal" for aDC area hotel (Arlington).

"Sheraton Crystal City Hotel • Arlington, VA"

51: Go for it. It's not that close to the rented house, but it's on the same metro line, so you could just get on one train and stay on it for like 15 stops until you're at the house.

I think the metro system would be relatively easy to get around with in general, but judging by where the house is, the easiest is anything on the blue or orange line, like that one.