response 114 of 163:

Aug 9 17:53 UTC 2003

We've got Valerie's sister & kids visiting this weekend.  We could have
walked, but it would have been three parents to four assorted infants and
toddlers in strollers, and we lacked the gumption.

response 116 of 163:

Aug 11 04:07 UTC 2003

Almost forgot to mention, I was going to be at the walk, but I turned
off my alarm clock, instead of hitting "snooze"  Whoops.

I won't be around the next couple of weekends, gotta go work for your
tax money.  :)

response 118 of 163:

Aug 11 16:38 UTC 2003

I was contemplating showing up for the debrief but got involved in
other stuff.

response 120 of 163:

Aug 13 16:05 UTC 2003

I live too far away. :-(

response 122 of 163:

Aug 13 20:30 UTC 2003

<remmers sobs uncontrollably>

Oh wait...  You're just going away to school, right?

response 124 of 163:

Aug 18 00:43 UTC 2003

resp:109 :: dcat asked me to fill in the lunch attendance from two weeks
ago at Jersalem Garden's porch.   dcat, krokus, kendra, valerie, janc, arlo,
aruba, Carol, Paul (friend of aruba and Carol), and krj.  Paul was just back
from  an extended stay in Japan and so we talked about Japanese music and
culture a lot.

This week: oops, Ayse's Turkish Cafe was closed -- not due to the blackout, 
but for a month-long summer vacation.  My bad.   I taped a note to the door and
we relocated to Cafe Marie.   Attending were, in approximate order of arrival:
mary, scott, arabella, krj, anderyn, bru, dcat, valerie, janc, arlo, kendra.
This was dcat's last visit with us for a while, since he's on his way out
of Ann Arbor this week.
 
(Cafe Marie was the site of arabella's last lunch before she left for Bulgaria
in June, and it turns out to have been her first lunch back as well.  Heh.)

The Mates-Wolter Collective were the only reported walkers.

response 126 of 163:

Aug 21 14:38 UTC 2003

Caren and I will be joining the walkers on Saturday.

response 128 of 163:

Aug 27 13:17 UTC 2003

BTW, I would like to nominate Zingerman's Roadhouse on Jackson Road (where
the former Bill Knapp's was) for lunch, preferably on September 13, the
weekend it opens for business.

response 130 of 163:

Aug 30 12:19 UTC 2003

Would there be any support for debriefing at Dominick's
some fall weekend?  Just for really old time's sake?

response 132 of 163:

Aug 31 02:25 UTC 2003

(Which park?  The Commie yard?)

response 134 of 163:

Sep 2 17:06 UTC 2003

Scheduling notes:
  arabella & krj second mary's suggestion of Dominick's in resp:130.
  Should we book that while weather still might allow dining outside?
 
  Valerie had nominated Roadrunner Cafe near Briarwood; krj seconds.
 
  Carol had nominated Aladdin's on Main Street  (the former Main Street
  Coney Island).  krj seconds.
 
  Bruin in resp:128 ::  Unless a lot of other people want to try 
  Zingerman's Roadhouse on its opening weekend, I'm going to suggest we wait 
  awhile.  Sept 13 is a home football game against Notre Dame with a 
  3:30 pm start; although the Roadhouse is not downtown, I expect it 
  will be jammed with football game traffic that afternoon.
 
Here are the remaining U.Michigan home football games:
  Sept  6   Houston        Noon   
  Sept 13   Notre Dame     3:30
  Sept 27   Indiana        start time TBA
  Oct  18   Illinois       Noon, Homecoming
  Oct  25   Purdue         start time TBA
  Nov  22   Ohio State     Noon

Sept 27 might be the weekend to pick for the Dexter Cider Mill trip, not 
certain yet.

response 136 of 163:

Sep 3 02:09 UTC 2003

Though eating lunch in the "park" outside the People's Food Coop was
nice from the point of view of allowing the kids to play without
disturbing the adults too much, the fact that the chairs are all nailed
down, with no more than four in a cluster, makes it hard for a large
group to eat sociably.

response 138 of 163:

Sep 7 05:08 UTC 2003

Oops, I think when I mentioned that, Ken, I was thinking of Mary's #135,
which is unrelated to the Dexter trip.  Sorry.