What was the plan again?

You send me $500.

i think it was to meet on the 23rd since the 26th is a tuesday and have some good times and um, that's all i know. OOOH! It's in charlottesville!

If it's the 23rd I can't make it. But have a good time anyway and perhaps you and I can have a pub night at a later point; I will be in Cville at least through December.

when was it that you could make it?

when was it that you could make it?

Apparently the 26th [goats.com].

Yes, but that's a Tuesday. If he was planning on visiting on a Tuesday, that works for me but for those coming from a distance, it may work best over a weekend.

I ain't visiting. I'm coming home.

I'll be awesomely jetlagged as well. If we meet at 9 it'll feel like 2 in the morning. Oh boy.

Like I said, can't make it on the 23rd. 5,000 miles is too far for anyone to drive for a pub night, especially over the ocean.

5,000 miles is too far for anyone to drive for a pub night, especially over the ocean.

Well, you'll never drive across the ocean with that attitude, young man.

ah. well, we'll have plenty of time for pubnights then.

Does anyone actually have a problem with the 26th? Cuz seeing zamphir in person would be fun.

No doubt, interacting with a cartoon is a step up from interacting with a mandala or whatever he was before, but still.

i don't have a problem with that day. i get off work around 5pm-ish so i can meet soon after that. We have any thoughts as to where we'd like to meet?

I really can't make it on a Tuesday. It's a 154 miles, and I have to go around D.C.

I know that AB has already said he can't do the 30th.

I can't make any guarantees about my weekends after September.

you're welcome to crash at my place if you need to.

i'll be camping over the 30th so i won't be available as previously stated.

It's not a big deal to get a hotel room.

It's just not possible for me to get there on a Tuesday.

You should look into trading in your tonka toy for a real car.

Map [google.com]

The top speed of my automobile would get me there in roughly an hour and a half.

The laws require it to take about three hours. I could reasonably expect, if there were no other cars on the road, to get there in about two and a half hours.

The intervening traffic means that I can't get there at all on a Tuesday, since I have to work. Even if I left Baltimore at 3 pm, it would take me an hour or so to go thirtyish miles to the Outer Loop of the D.C. Beltway. It would then take me at least another hour to go one third of the way around -past one of the busiest intersections on the Beltway - to Route 66, which is another of the busiest intersections on the Beltway.

And then it would probably take another full hour to go 22 miles to Us-29. From there, it should be quick. It's only about another 75 miles, it should only take about an hour.

So that's about 4 hours, if I'm lucky. And then I have to be back *in* Baltimore the next day.

And no matter what time I leave, it's still going to take that same three hours to go from Manassas to Baltimore.

On the other hand...

Looking at my schedule more... I *don't* have to be in Baltimore on *Friday*.

So I can show up on the 28th, Thursday...

Okay, okay, fine. I'll drive across the Atlantic on the 22nd.

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I'll be in Cville until at least December. That gives everyone plenty of time for another pub night, maybe even one in DC (my brother lives there, so I'm definitely go up there at some point).

So Thursday the 28th is right out?

that works fine for me. actually, it works better than the 23rd.

Works for me as well...

Do we want to choose the pub now, or wait until that week?

South Street Brewery [charlottes...ourism.org] or Court Square Tavern [charlottes...ourism.org]? i've not been to the latter yet. i would prefer to not visit anything on The Corner so as to avoid as many college students as possible...

i would prefer to not visit anything on The Corner so as to avoid as many college students as possible...

How quickly you assimilate to your new status and shun those who were, but mere months ago, your fellows...

You've clearly never run into UVa students....

The Court Square Tavern has a pretty good selection of international beers. Of course, as everyone on this forum knows, I'm no expert on that.

The C&O also makes an interesting choice, although to be honest it's more bar than pub, although more in the classy 1950s film hotel bar vein. I don't know what its beer selection is but you can't beat it for classy cocktails and whiskey/bourbon/scotch.

Apparently, Starr Hill [starrhillbeer.com] is not so bad either. And they do have the prestige of having an unbelievably shitty TMBG song written for them. They even made it into an even shittier video [youtube.com].

Not sure if I have. But I did jsut start a program at U of Michigan, and wow, some of these kids drive me up a wall.

But I'm 30, so I'm allowed to be grumpy about undergrads.