Conference rdvax::grateful

I'll go first - 
I'm heading to my parent's house in NYC tomorrrow, for about 6 days.
My sister & her 2 kids have come into NYC also, so it'll be fun hanging out
with her.  Taking next week off (isn't everyone? :-) but coming back to 
Ma. on Weds, so I can try to find some snow for XC skiing, and to find a
fun thing to do for NYE.  Anyone here throwing a NYE party?

Josh

    I'll be out next week too ! just gonna do the family thing and kick
    back and relax fo the next 11 days :') no parties that I know of !
    
    Chris

New York (Westchester and maybe LI) for Christmas, not totally finalized
just where and when yet.  Then back here Saturday night or Sunday.
Working next week.  NYE's?  Probably seeing if I can get that Black and
Tan thing working round about midnight, and then enjoying the peace of
kids dreaming in bed ;-)  Maybe if the sky's clear I'll take the
scope out and greet the New Year astronomically ;-)  

PeterT

    It's sort of dangerous to announce in a public forum, but yes, I stated
    my first official invite to a NYE party at my house. It'll be kind of 
    a house warming party too. I usually serve dinner around 7:00 PM. I
    haven't done one in several years, but it's time to throw one again. 
    If you haven't gotten an invite, it's because you're not the guy I was 
    talking to last night. If you need to know how to get to it, you'll
    have to send me mail.
    
    Geoff 
    

    taking of the week between Xmas and New Years...hope to end up at
    Tumbledown Shack for a few days with the backcountry skis (haven't even
    been in the backcountry ONCE this year!!) SHAKEDOWN STREET is playin
    at the bar up the street from our house on NYE..so we be DANCIN!!!! and
    probably walking home afterwards.....
    
    Everyone be safe these holidaze!!! 
    
    Have a Jerry Xmas and a Happy New Weir!!!!!!! 
    
    rfb

Ottawa Canada.



That'll make 4 diff. countries in 2 months!  not a record, but someone just
brought it to my attention....  geez, i've been travellin' a bit lately!

    this is the only note I could find with "holiday" in the title, so....
    
    It was a stealie Xmas for me! Got a GD cap with a SYF on the back, a
    SYF key ring, a SYF watch!!!!! (the one with no numbers, for the
    deadhead who really doesn't care what time it is!), now if i had only
    gotten those SYF panties that were discussed in here some time ago,
    I'd a been set!! (actually the Little Feat panties worked just fine!!!)
    
    rfb

    
    	Wow, first Fog's boxers and now rfb's panties.....
    what is this world coming to.....;*)
    
    

>(actually the Little Feat panties worked just fine!!!)
    
Please define your use of the word "worked".  Use diagrams
if necessary.

:-)

tim

    sorry...a family conf ya know....%^)
    
    rfb

    re .8
    
    my new silk jammies of course!  :^)
    
    						da ve

    Well folks, I'm outta here to go spend xmas with my family in Oz. For
    the last week or so it has been 80F in Melbourne (and dry)... yay!
    
    We're finishing the trip with a couple of days on an island near the
    Great Barrier Reef, where the resort is built in the canopy of a 45,000
    hectare tropical rain forest (Swiss Family Robinson, anyone?).
    
    Now all I have to do is survive 28 hours in a plane with a two year
    old...
    
    Have a good one. See you on the flip side.
    
    gary

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>    Now all I have to do is survive 28 hours in a plane with a two year
>    old...
 
28 hrs??!?!?!?!  

i thought it was 6 to San Fran plus 14 from san fran to sydney....

anyways, have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

    What do the festive noters of Grateful have planned for NYE aside
    from going to Phish or drinking oneself into oblivion and passsing out?
    i myself am opting for plan B..
    chris

    Hey Chris, why don't you opt for plan B down at the Plantation Club in
    Worcester?  Might as well...;-)
    
    Actually, aside from 12/31 itself, I'm kinda curious what else might be
    going on around here, like Friday?
    
    tim
    

    I hope to be at Tumbledown for the first time in TWO MONTHS!!!
    holy sh*t, can that be right???? Hopefully the pack rats haven't eaten
    the whole place and hopefully all the beer, juice and pop I said I
    WOULD NEVER NEVER LEAVE THERE DURING THE WINTER AGAIN hasn't frozen and
    exploded all over the walls, ceiling and floor as it did last winter. 
    And hopefully that crazy SOB that shot that cop in PArk County isn't
    living there...he's yet to be caught and is surviving by breaking and
    entering and eating into local cabins. 
    
    rfb
    

    After entertaining out of town relatives during Christmas, I am looking
    at option B, with my wife. Just have to close the quarter, and I will
    be ready. Looking forward to another 3 day weekend. 
    
    
    

i've forgotten now, who is going to the 'knot on NYE?
i think i may go.  i'd like to find a ride down there and
back...

as for Friday night, i know of nothing going on.
anyone into meetinf for drinks at the Regency (Westford)
after work???????????  they have 15 or so on tap!

    Plan B for me as well... in Maine with family-of-friend.
    
    ...Michael T. "Can't_drink_much_so_usually_only_at_NYE"Head

    re .16
    
    Eating his way into local cabins??  That's one tough crook.
    
    Jamie

Robyn and I will be doing plan S. It's probably knot 15 minutes from home 
and the last time I went to see Slipknot on NYE it was a fantastic Party. 
It was almost like one of those NYE parties I used to throw in the '80s with 
the exeption that I didin't have to clean up the next morning. I knew half the 
people in the place and would expect a similar situation this year. 
	As for Friday, well I have to work. Robyn took the week off, but I
don't have that much vacation time. Friday night? Hmm, I forgot about 
that. I don't know what we're doing. The following Friday I think we're 
going to ski.

Geoff

    NY Eve, Ye Olde Vienna Kauffeehause for a cd release party with the
    Pousette-Dart Band...
    
    NY Day, I'll be firmly planted in my recliner at noon for PAtriots
    playoff (nice to say that) Football!!!!!
    
    Wes

    re:rfb and Brokedown ... er, Tumbledown:
    
    rfb, where is this wonderful hovel-ito? Is it an old miner's shack
    or more recent?
    
    ...mikey

I'd be going to !Slip, if I wasn't spending the weekend at a B & B north of
Franconia Notch - XC skiiing, first time this season.

Josh

I think I'll be doing Plan 9 this year.  Veg out with a very few beers
(Samuel Smiths Winter whaterver they call it for 94/95, and I think
it will be time to break open that Sam Adams triple bock) maybe a 
nice warm fire, and some movies or tapes or other tv show.  Maybe go
out around midnight and see if it's started snowing yet (forecase for this
Saturday night!)  Maybe I'll bake some cookies too.  Get it all done in
94 and then think about cutting out some calories in 95 (After I finish
all the 94 cookies of course ;-)  Slipknot sounds intriguing, but that
means we have to find a babysitter, not a likely prospect 2 nights before
NYE.  Aside from which we try to avoid the roads on NYE.

Used to hang out all night taping the NYE Dead show which usually made it
onto the radio, but since Bill Graham died, it just hasn't been the
same...


PeterT

	I friend's having a big party in Watertown.....rented out a hall,
	lots of cool local Boston alternative bands will be playing there.
	

	It's been a while since I've hung out on the Boston music scene,
	so I think I'll trot on down there and catch up with a lot of people
	I haven't seen in awhile!

	kath

    mikey -- 
    Tumbledown shack is on Mousquito Gulch road just outside the thriving
    metropolis of Alma Colo., Population of people about 100 in winter,
    and about 150 dogs. Alma is the highest (in more ways than one)
    incorporated town in AmeriKa, 10,400 ft, beats Leadville by 100 feet. 
    Alma sets on the South Park side of Hoosier PAss. Breckinridge is on
    the other side, in Summit county. Alma even has a cop, a mayor and a 
    city council, as well as two bars,
    the AOB, Alma's Only Bar, and the South Park bar...The head waters of 
    the south fork of the South Platte river start above Alma, thus the 
    brook and brown trout fishing is grate for 8-15 inch fish, not large 
    but FAT trout. The X-country/back country skiing is superb!!! 
    
    Tumbledown itself is a house that was built in the 50's, two bedroom,
    kitchen, living room, outhouse (2 seater with a skylite!!!), no running
    water in winter, wood heat, gas cook stove and of course stereo and
    tapes. There's also a small one room cabin on the acre for summer use. 
    
    So, come see us this summer! Winters are COLD there!!!!!!
    
    Yer buddy Alfred was over in Lake County near Gunnison and Lake City,
    
    rfb

Looks like I'll be slipping into the new year.  Phish tickets for NYE were hard
to come by, but I did land one for Providence tonight. :-)  I've got tomorrow
off, and I guess I'll see you all at the Plantation Club.  I'm looking forward
to a NYE party with a lot of friends.

adam

    
    Sue and I are hosting a small gathering of her college friends, who
    always bring the new year in together.  Last year we hosted as well,
    the feature being the keg of New Year '94 Ale that was too smooth and
    too strong.  Sue has already taped last year's pictures to the living
    room wall, the most notable being the one of yours truly passed out on
    the couch, using my (annoyed) dog Jazz as a pillow ;^)  The keg won't
    be ready for this year, but we're well stocked.....I just hope that my
    first breakfast of 1995 is more enjoyable than the first (attempted)
    breakfast of 1994 ;^)
    
    Hogan

    re .rfb: I knew you were up in the "high" country somewhere but wasn't
    sure where... I've been to Alma and over the pass to Breck (but only in
    the summer)
    
    I'll drop by and we'll try to catch some of those trout!
    
    ...Michael T. "Knew_you_weren't_fond_of_old_Alferd_anywhow!"Head
    
    "there were only seven Democrats in Hinsdale County and YOU, 
    you man-eatin' son of a b*tch,
    you ET five of 'em!"

    
    Me and my date be goin to Phish at dah Bowastin gaaaahdin!!!
    
    Then, Monday I be skiing with Chris Leblanc.
    
    Livin large!!! 

I'm slipknotting into NYE.
convinced my bro to drive after saying i'd pay for him to get in :-) and
his friend.


saw phish last night.
killah Bowie... 30 mins... maybe?  my time sense was out da windah.
i was livin' lahge last night, as deano would say :-)




rasta

    re .13
    
    It was about 26 hours from takeoff in Boston to landing in Melbourne.
    The 'hurry up and wait' time in transit lounges adds to the total.
    
    Longer on the way back, thanks to El Nino and friends. And my 2 year
    old daughter coped with it better than we did.
    
    If there is a paradise on earth, Hinchinbrook Island (the place with
    the treehouses) may well be it. Pity it is on the other side of the
    planet...
    
    gary

    trip report, gary????

    In a couple of days. The timezone change is taking more than it's usual
    toll on all of us (I speculate that it has something to do with not
    seeing the sun until this morning). Or maybe it will give me something
    to do when I'm awake at 2am :-)
    
    gary

Welcome back Gary.  Interesting to note that your vacation seems to be
during the B5 rerun season, as I believe new shows start downloading 
from the satellite this Friday.  Just a coincidence I'm sure ;-)

PeterT

    we're planning a trip to FLA in April for my sister's wedding, and a
    trip out to Carson City, NE to see KAren's mom in May-June...
    
    I've already checked with a few travel agents, (Thomas Cook, highest
    priced yet...Commonwealth in Worcester, Shrewsbury Travel, best prices
    far)
    
    any other travel agent suggestions, like does NE1 have a fave that they
    always use ???
    
    thanx in advance,
    
    Wes

    re .36
    
    JMS knows how to keep his fans happy :-)
    
    gary

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>    any other travel agent suggestions, like does NE1 have a fave that they
>    always use ???
 
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