[sf-lug] End Monday Evening meetings? Please Discuss

[Bobbie Sellers]

     Hi LUGers,

         I just want to make clear that I have no objection to riding 
the bus at
8 PM but it takes a half an hour to get back to Larkin Street and I have a 3
block walk with my equipment in the rolling bag.   When I was younger
that was not so much but now when I got back from the meeting on
Sunday I  was too tired to do anything else.  Also through the dark streets
at night makes me nervous these days.

     However if anyone wants to meet at other times I will be happy
to help them if they cannot wait for a meeting  at the Cafe Enchante
or whatever other public venue we end up at.  I would rather see a
meeting on the 2nd Sunday whether it is two or three hours but
while I will be happy to be there at the start of meeting I cannot
state unequivocally that I will be there until the end of the meeting...
If the group keeps the meeting on 1st Sunday with extended
hours the same is true.

     And I hope more than the few meeting attendees will give
us the privilege of their opinions.

     Bobbie Sellers

On 9/2/19 9:37 PM, Todd Hawley wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 4:53 PM jim <jim at well.com 
> <mailto:jim at well.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Thank you, Bobbie.
>
>         My health has degraded over the last few
>     years, now to the point that evenings out
>     require more energy than I have.
>         I have previously been able to get to
>     Monday evening meetings and afterward drive
>     Bobbie and usually one or two others to their
>     homes or bus stops and such. That is now
>     difficult for me.
>         Because the Monday evening meetings have
>     been lightly attended (Bobbie and one or two
>     others, occasionally just Bobbie and me), I
>     think it will not do harm that we discontinue
>     meetings on Monday evenings. this will help
>     me and Bobbie, too.
>         I propose we do so.
>
>         If we continue Monday evening meetings,
>     it is likely that I will not be able to be
>     there, which means Bobbie will have to take
>     the bus home around 8 PM.
>
>
> Since no one else besides Jim & Bobbie have commented, I suppose I 
> will. I've attended the Monday
> night meeting once or twice. I had fun, but since I live on the south 
> end of SF, it takes me an hour or
> so to get there, plus I have to find somewhere to park. I'm wondering 
> if others have this same issue too
> if hardly anyone regularly attends.
>
> Also in my case, I usually work Monday evenings so it's impossible for 
> me to attend anyway. Since it
> seems Jim and Bobbie no longer have the energy to do the Monday night 
> monthly meeting, plus
> the low attendance I also propose discontinuing it.
>
> Best,
> -th