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.

response 140 of 163:

Sep 7 16:52 UTC 2003

This week's walk and lunch ran in shifts.  The first shift consisted of 
Bird Hills walkers aruba, krokus, scott, plus an unnamed guest who found 
the Grex Walk listed in the Ann Arbor Observer.
The unnamed guest didn't go to lunch; the remaining three proceeded to 
Sabor Latino a bit before noon.
 
Leslie and I arrived at Sabor Latino around 12:40, figuring that people
would be as late as they were last week.    :/
 
The last shift started with janc, valerie, kendra, arlo, chanur, kaplan 
and ross, they had done a Children's Walk on the Gallup Park playground 
loop.  They were joined by polygon, sgsk and mjg.  So, the total lunch 
crowd was 15, though not everyone was there at once.

Sabor Latino was very accomodating about moving tables around with
all the late arrivals.  Most of us left around 2 pm.

response 142 of 163:

Sep 8 02:13 UTC 2003

Bruce who?

response 144 of 163:

Sep 8 03:55 UTC 2003

One of these days, I'll actually make the regular walk at Bird Hills.

response 146 of 163:

Sep 8 17:37 UTC 2003

Heh.  I usually have a request this time of year for the cider mill trip,
but I think I'm going to cheat on Dexter--we have halfassed plans to go to
a different cider mill with Don's parents on the lone appropriate weekend
I'll be in town.  Thanks for thinking of me!

response 148 of 163:

Sep 10 14:21 UTC 2003

re 145
I've been there for walks, but never made it on time to walk with everyone
else.  Thusly, I go wander amongst the trees for awhile, then come back
and wait for everyone else.