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Subject:	GardenSlug Meetings When/Where?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny
Date:	Sun, 30 Jul 2000 05:01:42 GMT
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I checked my calendar. September was nearly full. We had talked about Sep 1-3 (Labor Day) but I found out I'm busy then. I'm available Aug 26-27, Sep 30 and Oct 7-8 plus all of October. Whether to have a meeting of GardenSLUG at my house some day: First, my home is 77 miles from Chris' house, formidably surrounded by Queens, New York. It's not what you would call *centrally located*. So I'll check now: who would likely make the trip over? Not necessarily next time, just any time. 1. By train, it is 15 minutes from Penn Station (New York) if you catch the half-hourly Kew Gardens LIRR, plus a 5 minute walk down 3 blocks of picturesque Building Ideas. Trains rule! 2. By subway it's about 30 minutes on the E-train from Manhattan and a 10 minute walk (or just take the bus.) 3. Finally by car (street parking available) it is about 2 hours from NJ. For upstate NY, it's about 20 minutes from Whitestone. The LIRR schedule is at http://www.lirr.org/lirr/html/ttn/kewgarde.htm but click on "weekends, To Jamaica" because the default is weekdays. For example find the train that leaves "New York" at 1:05 and visits Kew Gardens at 1:21. Second, my living room is 20x12, a little bigger than Chris' lego room. It's got Lego everywhere in one half with 2 tables for building. We could use the floor in the other half. Six people would probably be comfortable, I think more would start to be crowded. Don't forget to chime in with "Yuck! Go into the city???" or "Sounds doable!" I suspect there are some New Yorkers about, let me hear from you. Oh, just for Lindsay: the Q10 bus is a 25 minute ride from JFK airport. (: -Erik

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		Re: GardenSlug Meetings When/Where?
(...) Until something comes up, I can make any of those days. (...) No sweat for me. I'm from the midwest where we view distance quite differently. (The 17 hour drive do my folks' house is no biggie, so two hours into The City is peanuts.) (...) But (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny)

		Re: GardenSlug Meetings When/Where?
Hey Erik, I'm not real fond of going into The City, but if the directions are good, and I can use mass transit, then that improves the odds of my attending. :-) On the other hand, I don't know what kind of MOCs I'd be bringing on mass transit, (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny)

		Re: GardenSlug Meetings When/Where?
(...) time. (...) picturesque (...) minute (...) click (...) the (...) got (...) would (...) I (...) Maybe my place (St. George, Staten Island - 5 minute bus ride or 10 minute walk from the ferry) would be more centraly located: easy driving commute (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny)

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First message! GardenSLUG is go, we had our meeting. When and where is the next one? Chris (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug)

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