Leaguefest 2012 — Not To Be A Pest

63 thoughts on “Leaguefest 2012 — Not To Be A Pest”

1. I won’t be there.Report

2. I won’t be able to commit until we have a firm date AND when the family vacation plans are solid. Hopefully a week or two.Report

3. Yes, I think I need a week or two. (The conversation that took place last night wandered through “maybe we could both go” territory.)Report

   1. All that to say: I will be there. I do not know if I need to amend this to “we will be there”.Report

      1. We’ll hope Maribou can join us, and regret it if she can’t. If she can’t, I’ll look forward to the snore report from Will.Report

         1. A preview:

            “I thought he was overstating things.”Report

4. I remain a firm yes.Report

   1. For two.Report

5. It’s still 50-50 for us.   Most likely it would be both my wife and I if we go, though, with the daughter staying with grandparents.

   The dates are clear for us.  The biggest question mark is that we’ve got a big vacation planned for March for which we’ve already booked airfare, but have not yet booked hotels. Our ability to attend mostly hinges on how the hotel costs for that vacation shake out.

   We should have a much clearer picture on all this sometime next week.Report

   1. Hey Mark – can I ask you to shoot me over your email address?Report

      1. Tod – Just making sure you got my response e-mail.Report

   2. Still trying to sort things out, but it’s looking more likely we’ll be able to do this every day.Report

6. We’re hoping to go – my wife and I – if we can get baby-sitting for a couple days. At this point, bringing the kids would probably be too difficult.Report

7. Its looking more and more like I’m not going to be able to make it.Report

8. I regret that I won’t be able to make it. Next time, perhaps.Report

9. I’m a definite no, but should some kind of Skype connection be possible I’d be happy to call in.Report

10. Unlikely.  The size of the security detail I’d need would be too disruptive.Report

    1. Booooo!!!! BOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

       I want you there, dammit!Report

       1. Indeed. I can testify from personal experience that TVD is a bonny drinking companion.Report

          1. I suggest you kidnap TVD and drag him along kicking and screaming.  Or get him adequately drunk that he just thinks he’s on an exceedingly long cab ride through the desert.  Whichever is easiest.Report

             1. Get his bandmates in on the gag and convince him that it’s just a long drive to the gig.Report

                1. Tom’s pretty smart. He’d catch wise by San Bernardino, at the latest, no matter how faded I got him first.

                   Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Tom Van Dyke and the Conserva-tones, playing here at Nefertiti’s Lounge in the fabulous Luxor Hotel and Casino, in town for one night only!

                   That, OTOH, might be an adequate incentive.Report

                   1. One word: Roofies.Report

                   2. Great minds think alike. My first thought was “He’ll only notice if he’s conscious!”Report

                   3. “Tom! Great to see you! Yeah, I got a new van. Hey, drink this.”Report

                   4. …. aaaaand that’s why he wants a bodyguard…Report

                   5. Somebody say something about a gig?Report

                   6. And you’re tasked with writing the LOoG theme song.Report

                   7. We should TOTALLY start a League band!Report

                   8. I call the kazoo.Report

11. I don’t think I can make it, either.

    That happens to be Kitty’s reunion weekend back east.  So either I’ll be in D.C. with the kids while she’s at Bryn Mawr, or I’ll be at Bryn Mawr with the kids providing primary daycare while she attends reunion thingies, or I’ll be home here with the kids while she solos back east for the reunion.

    Just picked the wrong weekend for 2012.  Ain’t no thing.  Hm, maybe I can Skype in on the actual Saturday…Report

    1. Patrick – how long will you be back east for if you head out this way?Report

       1. Currently unknown.

          The original plan was to go out to Bryn Mawr for the reunion, and block out either the week before or the week after to visit D.C. and possibly friends back on the east coast.

          That’s all up in the air at the moment.  A number of stars need to align.Report

          1. I ask because Bryn Mawr is about two miles from my in laws, where we would presumably be dropping our daughter off for the weekend.Report

             1. We’ll have to get a Philly cheesesteak and a beer if that works out.Report

                1. Most definitely.  Jim’s on South Street is the only acceptable option for that, by the way.Report

12. Living only 100 miles north of the epicenter of these proposed meetings, I feel compelled to do what I can to be there.  Although, in truth, I’m not sure what I might add other than to be the strange guy who doesn’t say much and can’t over the fact that Jaybird really is “that guy” or Van Dyke or Kelly really is “that guy”, or somesuch. 

    And, being in the golf business, the holidays do tend to be our times for toil while other people go off to places like, I don’t know, Las Vegas, to hobknob and play golf.  So, my position in terms of attendance remains a cautious and guarded tentatively maybe.  For what that’s worth.Report

    1. It would be most great if you can swing it.Report

       1. Agreed. When I thought of the location, one of the thoughts I had was that it was driving distance for Mr. Boggs.Report

       2. I see what you did there!Report

13. I’m still working on logistics as well and hope to have a better idea next week.Report

14. Talked it over with the wife. I’m in. Clancy is unlikely, unless she is unemployed by that point.

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    1. That’s awkward.  You just put me in a position of hoping she loses her job in the next few months.Report

       1. We can hope for good economic fortunes for the Truman family and hope that Dr. Truman is able, between now and then, to find the time to accompany Will to the festivities.

          I’m really happy to learn Will can make it.Report

       2. If she’s not employed in May, it will have been our decision. So, no awkwardness. We would have finally escaped!Report

15. And thanks, everyone, for the RSVP’s declining with regrets. While it’s disappointing personally, it does help from a planning perspective.Report

    1. We need a list of the confirmed, the regrets, and the dunnos.Report

       1. Yeah – It’s hitting me all the people I’m not sure that we have heard from  –  Rufus, Kyle, JL, Ryan, Elias, and so many others.Report

          1. If it’s one of those things where the difference between showing up and not showing up is $X, I’d be willing to kick in $X, provided that $X does not exceed $Y… but if everyone was willing to kick in Xsub1, we might find that $Y is not exceeded!Report

             1. Agreed.Report

                1. SPECIFICALLY NORTH!!!

                   If Maribou isn’t able to show up, I’ll need a handler. North comes closest.Report

          2. Sorry, still have to check with our finances. Probably not though. Sorry. Grad student budget, you know.Report

             1. $X!, dude! $X!

                (Rufus would also suffice)Report

                1. What a DINK.Report

                   1. See it as “redistribution”.Report

                   2. FULL POINTReport

       2. 1% chance.  I love the idea and am normally free in May.  But I’m planning to take students to the Middle East in May (although I don’t have enough yet, anyone interested in being my student for a month?), and I’m likely taking a trip to the Netherlands with my wife sometime this spring.  So that pretty much puts the k’bosh on a trip to Vegas.

          Which sucks because I could probably get us all discount tickets to see Lance Burton.

          Yes, all of that is true, and yes, I wrote it all just to show off.Report

16. Also – and this probably goes without saying – I’m going to expect see that everyone looks exactly like their gravatar.Report

    1. I do, but it will shock you anyway because that’s how I look from the front.  I’m like a normal person, except backwards.

       Took me forever to get used to walking the other way so that I’d look like everybody else.Report

    2. If you walk in looking like a tree, that will look funny. Even by Vegas standards.Report

    3. I think everyone will be slightly fatter than their gravatar. And in my case, although I will not be there, significantly less mustachioed.Report

       1. “Slightly”

          Yeah, run with that.Report

17. Did we decide on the actual day the meet-up would take place?Report

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