A Madison gathering!

(Thanks for the Red Roof link, ehBeth! E.G. just confirmed that that is where we put up our wedding guests, so we have history there. )

I would LOVE to go, and LOVE to meet you all.

I've always been curious about that area. The closest I've gotten is Chicago when my dtr was in law school there.

I just can't afford to take the time off right now though. I'll have to enjoy it vicariously this time I guess.

Make sure you post all about it and take some pix.

No, no, I erred, I thought I was responding about a possible event in Chicago or thereabouts (I consider Madison thereabouts) in the spring...

but wishing you all a grand time.

isn't it san francisco in the spring?



but then again, it would be silly to ruuuuuule out more thereabouts Madison get-togethers.



psssssssst - has anyone talked to maxsdadeo lately?

I just revised the intro so it doesn't confuse latecomers like Osso. Will send PMs directing maxsdadeo and joefromchicago here now.

Yes. it is SF in the spring, early April, which I will be at, although on the late side, that is on Sunday, just as many will be leaving, sigh.

I was just thinkin' though, that I still wanna see Chicago again. True that for me it is unlikely I could do it after just spending for room, etc., in SF.

Yes, as of my latest count, we have 19 probables for the San Francisco Gathering. Hope all of you can also join us.

Osso, if you do make it to Chicago, I'm always here (for the next year or so, anyway) for a mini-gathering. Would love to meet you. Craven, PDiddie, and eoe are others who have mentioned they might be coming through.

My god, what a bunch of busy peoples.

My accomplishment of the day: I walked down to the church bike sale, found nothing, and walked back, sacrificing half a muffin to a tenacious swarm of yellowjackets on the way.

I feel... such... sloth.

We met a very adorable sloth the other day. It licked a kid's nose, and I'm happy it wasn't the sozlet, since I just don't really trust sloth germs. But it was sweet, with big moist brown eyes, looking at us upside down as it clung to its owner/ handler.

Do think an offer of a guided tour of the clothes-optional co-op would be enough to lure Craven?

clothes-optional co-op?

(Where I used to live, and which I have referred to many times. Craven has seemed intrigued. )

So I can pack light for this trip?

Oy!
the clothing optional A2K get-together.
I always thought that would happen in Guam.
But no. Madison. Madison, Wisconsin in autumn.
Setanta is going to be over the moon. Or, the moon. The big Irish moon.

I just might be able to come, thanks for the invite, sozobe.

If Setanta promises not to be packing heat, that is.

Sorry, dadeo, but Setanta's always a bit over-heated, which is why this clothing optional thing is soooooooo going to make him happy.

Do try to be there, dadeo - and bring the beauteous maximom! I miss seeing her around.

Yes, maiximom too! And max himself!

So, what we are talking about now is 8-10 of us trouping into the co-op, I wave and declare brightly "I used to live here!!", and we all drop trou, let our girls out, etc.? Cool.

hehehehehehe


co-op living. love it. did it for nearly 5 years. i even represented our co-op at NASCO conferences in Ann Arbor in the late 1970's. First co-ed communal shower I was ever in, was in Ann Arbor.

I put in about 2.5 years there. (Boyfriend lived there freshman year, I shared a dormroom with an insufferable Barbie, I spent most of my time at the co-op... had an apt. with boyfriend for a year... we broke up... I moved back to co-op... lived there solo [mostly] for a year... met E.G.... both lived there for only a few months before I went to England... then E.G. and I got an apartment together.)

By the way I fully expect to run into this old boyfriend. I always do. Just calling it like Babe Ruth calling a homer in case it happens during the gathering.

There were a lot of things I loved about the co-op and a lot of things I DIDN'T. For example, every decision had to be made by the whole co-op -- 35 people. Should we paint the walls? White or yellow? Or purple? Had to be unanimous. We had some LOoooooooooOOOOOOOooong meetings.