[penguicon-general] Thursday Night Staff Dinner

[john guest]

On 4/11/07, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 10:12 am, Molly de Blanc wrote:
> > Thursday night is perhaps one of the best parts of the convention. You get
> > to eat good food with cool people and pretend that you're going to stay as
> > sane as you were before the con. (Or not.)
> >
> > I am specifically concerned about the proposed LN2 lessons for after dinner.
> > Mostly, that is, will people be willing to do it then (have the energy) and
> > also will it function as dessert or will that be something seperate?
>
> You're having the ln2 delivered thursday?

Of course.  :-)  Going out an picking up a couple quarts of
half-n-half should be no big deal.  I promise not to make sushi ice
cream first.  I may do my butter rum, though.

>
> I have to be in town at 4pm to pick up Steve and Jimmie from the airport, so I
> can probably help out with this if you do.  A shopping trip to pick up
> ingredients would be required, but is this a separate shopping trip for just
> thursday night?  (If you pick up piles of milk and half and half for the
> weekend, how will you keep it cold?  The bathtubs full of ice won't be online
> yet...)

We have access to the hotel's refrigerator.

>
> > Yep, about a week to the con and -now- I'm begining to freak on it.(I still
> > don't know how "We should do X" turned into volunteering. Man, we need "And
> > I volunteered for this" ribbons."

*You're* freaking out?  You should run the damn thing...  If anyone
needs a "I volunteered for *this* ?!?" it's me...  ;-)

--John Guest

>
> Next year, we should definitely have those.
>
> Rob
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