[conspire] (forw) Re: New to Bay Area

[Rick Moen]

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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 22:11:20 -0800
From: Jeff Frasca <phaedrus at sasquatch-infotech.com>
To: installers at linuxmafia.com
Subject: New to Bay Area

Hello, 

My Fiancée and I just moved down here to the Bay Area, and found
your group.  We'd like to come to the meeting next Saturday.  

I love my Slackware, and Laura runs Debian.  We moved down here so
she could take a job in Emeryville--she's a librarian and was
hired by a library software firm.  I followed her and have been
playing house husband (I recently graduated with a BS in physics).  

Mostly, we were wondering what we should bring for the potluck
dinner (I saw mention of "enjoy good potluck dinner" in the FAQ)?

Speaking of the FAQ, I'd like to claim my prize for reading the
whole thing.

See you on Saturday,
Jeff 
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----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> -----

Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 22:48:42 -0800
To: Jeff Frasca <phaedrus at sasquatch-infotech.com>
Cc: installers at linuxmafia.com
Subject: Re: New to Bay Area
Reply-To: installers at linuxmafia.com
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>

Quoting Jeff Frasca (phaedrus at sasquatch-infotech.com):

> Hello, 

Greetings, Jeff.

> My Fiancée and I just moved down here to the Bay Area, and found
> your group.  We'd like to come to the meeting next Saturday.  

Good.  We'll be delighted to see you.

Saturday's event may not show off CABAL at its best:  I'll have arrived
back late the prior evening from the LISA Conference in San Diego, from
which I'm writing you at the moment.  Plus, there's a holiday dinner
from 1 pm to 3:45 in Los Altos that I'll be coming back from, that
Saturday -- and my wife will be running off to an evening event
elsewhere.  So, we might be a bit disorganised, at least as to my
personal end of things.

> Mostly, we were wondering what we should bring for the potluck
> dinner (I saw mention of "enjoy good potluck dinner" in the FAQ)?

Hmm.  I normally cook some sort of beef or pork roast, and other
people's contributions are all over the map.  Ross Bernheim often does a
nice casserole with fake crabmeat -- quite delicious -- and often brings
homemade sorbets.  If there's demand, I will generally fire up the
back-porch BBQ (cheap Weber-style, w/charcoal), so people can indulge
their variant of the suburban barbecue ritual.  And I will usually make
fresh garlic bread.  However, the most important thing to note is that
nobody is _expected_ to bring anything to eat at all, but there's always
plenty for everyone anyway.  It's a pleasant form of working anarchy,
and things just tend to work out.

If you wanted to bring something that's usually lacking, a salad or
fruit salad would definitely be among those.  Or bring your favourite
bottle of wine, or whatever you like to drink.  Or nothing.  Please
don't sweat the matter:  Just come, and be welcome.

> Speaking of the FAQ, I'd like to claim my prize for reading the
> whole thing.

Hah, you're the -first- to mention that, over about eight years.
Now, I really have to do a pot roast!

-- 
Cheers,             
Rick Moen                 "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
rick at linuxmafia.com                                   -- Elizabeth Tudor

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