Re: Meeting...

[Mark Bishop <mark@vincent.silug.org>]

On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> 
> Wow.  You think we actually *start* meetings at 6?  Not by a long
> shot, unless something has changed drastically in the last few
> months...

Umm, yeah we all aren't insomiacs anymore.

> 
> Here's how it usually works...  Around 6, people start showing up.
> They start chatting...  By 6:30, most of the people who are going to
> show up, do.  That's when the chatting starts to get a bit more
> organized.  People start bringing up questions & such.  Around 7, the
> "formal" presentation begins.  Around 8, the "formal" presentation
> trails off a bit, and people start to leave (for whatever reason).
> Usually the questions start up again.  By 8:30, the questions are so
> off-topic it's frightening.  By 9, the meeting has degenerated to a
> bunch of people talking amongst themselves again.  Around 9:30,
> whoever is left usually goes to Hardees to grab a burger or something.
> Sometime around 11 (when they kick everybody out), people start
> heading out to their cars.  Eventually everybody goes home.
> 
> Have I missed anything?  :-)
> 

We have other lives maybe? :P


> In other words, if you can't show up until 7, you haven't missed
> anything.  If you show up at 8, most likely there will still be people
> there to talk to.  After 9, you might have to hunt people down at the
> local fast food establishments.
> 

Now that's funny.

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