Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    Andrea,
    
    I'd say that classic meeting place for Womannoters, The Rusty
    Scupper, is mid-way between Bedford and Marlboro.
    
    Directions:  Grab your instructor firmly by the lapels, and ask,
    "How do I get to Route 2A?"  Mate the explanation up with the
    diagram below, which I think is rather nice.
    
    						Ann B.
    \
     \   Route 495                    to Route 3
    --------------------------------------->
       \
        \
         \
    .............Border of Acton and Littleton
           \*
            \     /                  The * is The Rusty Scupper, in
             \   / Route 27          Nagog Woods Mall, at the lonely traffic
              \ /                    light, across from this huge pond.
               X
              / \
             /   \Route 2A and 119
    to 495  /     \ /                               | 2A joins 2 here
    <--------------O--------------------------------+-------------------
          /        |      Route 2                   |         Route 2A
         /         |                                |
                   | The O is the notorious         v to 128
                     Concord Rotary, just after
                     the prison (on your left).

    If I don't have a rehearsal, I will be there!  Even if I *do* have a
    rehearsal, maybe I can get there for a little while.  
    
    E Grace

    ...sss... rumble...  Count me in too!!  At least I can currently make
    it.  Don't know what my bossman will be having me do that day, but the
    chances are high that I'll be able to stick a HappyHour ScupperStop in
    the itinerary and wander homeward thence.  On the off chance that I'd
    be asked to be out of town that day, I'll scream a lot!
    
    I'm *glad* you posted this idea today (-: and I'm flattered that you
    invited both me and my Alter Genii specifically!  :-) rather than any
    later, since I'm about to be off-net for several days, not to return
    (at hi-baud-rate, any road) until Weds 15 Jan...  I'd hate to have had
    you think I was ugh-noring you...
    
    Mais OUI, Masieur!  (-: My just-coined Frenchoid equivalent of Monsieur
                            and Madame stuck together, � la "hir." :-)
    
    Merci pour la bonne ide�!!
    
    (-: And I get to ask, face-to-face, whether E Grace Noonan is related
    [through an obscure alphabetic connection] to one of our greater US
    Presidents, Harry S Truman.  Ooohh, my anticipation is legendary!!!:-) 
    (Hi E -- it is I!)
    
    (And AnnB, do I infer correctly from the presence of .1 that you too
    will be there?  To infer less would be truly Heretical, methought!)
    (Private joke for JOYOFLEXers only:-)
    
    And sorry I haven't been able to opine about the various course and
    activity possibilities you posted elsewhere...  My first reaction was
    "go for the music course" but then I realized that "if I were you" is
    too presumptuous a statement to make when I haven't met you...  But
    that can be fixed!  At any rate, I resonated (haha) most to the music,
    fwiw...
    
    ...sss... elbmur... Cheers, Dan
                                                                      

Great!  Me too!

Meigs

By the way, Andrea, the folks at the Beford training
center are used to directing visitors all over the
confusing-to-strangers New England countryside, so they 
will prob be quite helpful.

    
    I'll be there for a little while, anyway.  What time?
    

				HUGFEST

	If this class goes like most, I'll probably be there a little early.
	Since some of us, don't know the others of us, maybe we should
	have the host/ess direct us to the "Digital Party".  Of course,
	if E Grace is there, we'll all be able to tell because of the
	hugs running/tumbling around the area.  :-)

	So, the first one there us should talk to the host/ess to let them
	know our location.  Though I suppose I could always die my hair
	purple.  Tee-hee!

	What happens if I grab my instructor and they don't have lapels????

Have a great week,

-Andrea

    Wing it on the lapels.
    
    Actually, since the exit from BUO dumps you right at an entrance
    to Route 3, you might prefer to just take Route 3 south for one
    exit, and turn right/south/west onto Route 128, then turn right
    again onto Route 2 a few exits later.
    
    Yes, I'll try to come.  What time is Happy Hour, anyways?
    
    					Ann B.

    
    >What time is Happy Hour, anyways?
    
   
Ooooo, you guys on the East coast live a sheltered life.  I can see I'm 
going to have to corrupt you a bit.  :-)

Happy Hour usually runs 4-7pm.  Unless, they do things differently out your 
way. Basically, whenever you can leave work.

See you there -  Smiles,

-Andrea

It's snowing, it's snowing.  Isn't that special?  This ex-Californian still 
thinks its neat. (Provided I can drive home in one piece, of course)
I even made a snowperson next to the steps into work. :-)

    
    
    >Ooooo, you guys on the East coast live a sheltered life. 
    
    Hahaha...that's what I said when I moved out here.  
    
    Only to come to find out they don't HAVE happy hours in New England.
    They are illegal.  So, no one understands what you're talking about
    when you say "happy hour."
    
    Happy Hour in the west usually implies free food and/or reduced price
    drinks or two-for-one drinks.
    
    kath
                              

>    Only to come to find out they don't HAVE happy hours in New England.
>    They are illegal.  So, no one understands what you're talking about
>    when you say "happy hour."

We used to have happy hours here in the northeast. I can't remember
the chain of events completely, but it had to do with people overdrinking,
then getting in a car and killing someone. Was it the courts that
outruled happy hour? Or did the bars voluntarily stop them because
they were being sued?

Kathy                              

	The state of MA passed a law that said that establishments could not:

o  Offer reduced price drinks for any reason (ladies night, happy hour, this
	includes 2-for-1)

o  Serve a container of more x ounces (I believe 16) to one person. (No pitchers
	for just one person at a table, no jumbo drinks.)

o  Require a drink minimum. (i.e. 2 drink minimum) [and they may have actually
	expanded it to also no dollar minimum.]


	To avoid the hassle, a lot of places stopped serving pitchers and
started charging cover since they couldn't have minimums.

	Some places have do have free food, or reduced/no cover and have
"happy hour" but it just isn't the same.

	When I went to college in Nashville, the local "fern bar" had happy
hour every weekday 4-6 where they had 2 for one. And one of the small local
restaurants had "late night" happy hour 10-11 with half price drinks.  I've
never seen late night HH anywhere else.



					--D
					  [who has friends who own a bar]

    I might be able to make it, but I won't know until the last
    minute.
    
    --bonnie
    

    
    re last few:
    
    Fortunately for us, the Scupper serves lots of free food during
    their Happy Hour. (-:
    

    
    
    I'll probably drop by before volleyball (in Littleton).
    
    I talked with Jonathan Ludgate and he's going to try and make it as
    well.
    
    kath

    Okay folks, tomorrow is Andrea's party at the Scupper. I do hope
    that there will be a number of  =wn= ers there to make her welcome to
    Mass. 
    
    Right now I'll be there, barring car problems in this cold!
    
    Bonnie

    what time?
    
    D!

I'm hoping to stop by!

Kathy

    5ish on I'd assume..
    
    the first person there tell the hostess that you are there to
    meet people from Dec/womannotes
    
    I think we may have to go upstairs to the bar..
    
    and when ever you arrive, ask where the womannotes party is
    
    
    Bonnie

    Well did anyone show up?
    
    Bonnie

    i did
    

Yup. There were maybe 20 or so womannoters there. It was a good time.

Kathy
    

    And we beat the pants of the men!
    
    D!
    
    [Well, actually they still had their pants off.  And actually,
    technically, it was a tie.  Or shall we say, and even draw.  But when
    we won, we won by a landslide, and when we lost, we lost by two.]

    re .22 >actually they still had their pants off. ???
                                                ===

    I *knew* I should have gone bowling!
    
    E Grace

    Me too!  
    
    Lorna
    

    Oops, I meant "still had their pants *on*" of course.
    
    *blush*
    
    (^^^^^^ Actually this defies what I was telling Justine last night,
    that it was very hard to make me blush.  Actually *I* can make myself
    blush quite nicely, but it is more a challenge for other people.)
    
    D!

    D!
    
    I thought for a minute that this was a repeat of last year's party
    at Ann Broomhead's
    
    BJ��
    
    

    Ahem!!!!
    
    D!