It may be a little early to propose, but what with A) Nov 30 falling on a Friday, and B) Cafe Play closing early these days, what about an IHOP write-in for the last deadline hurdle?
Say, show up around dinner time or whenever, and stay until just after midnight?
IHOP in Boulder has wi-fi, of course, which is essential for last-minute word-count updates and downloading of the winner certificate! If the wi-fi should break down, we can move the party to my house.
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nicole j. leboeuf : actually writing blog
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Nov 25, 2007 - 09 15
This sounds like an excellent plan, and I will try to make it, if I can sneak away from spouse and child. God knows I have some serious scrambling to do.
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Nov 25, 2007 - 09 45
If you guys're going to be there, I might have to hit up hubby and see if he'll keep the kids so I can swing by for a bit. It sounds fun, and I've been getting a lot of words out when writing with you all!
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Nov 26, 2007 - 09 48
I'll be there.
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Nov 27, 2007 - 09 26
It's a date!
I note no one took me to task on the horrible, horrible pun in the subject line. IHOP "scramble," geddit? geddit? 'Cause, see, it's a breakfast place, you can get scrambled eggs there?
...nevermind. ;-)
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Nov 27, 2007 - 09 32
I would like to come! I do not know how I am going to get there or where I am sleeping that night, so let me think aobut it. My spouse would support me going, just not using a SG ("stinking gasser") to get there.....
vortexae, I confess I missed the pun, but now I GET IT, OK???????? :-O
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Nov 27, 2007 - 14 41
I will try to make it if I can. Not only do I have a funeral tomorrow to attend, one of the men I have been working with me passed suddenly last week Wednesday and his service is first thing Saturday morning.... So, I don't know if I can stay up half the night and be in any space to make it in to the service in any respectable manner.
I'll see what I can do... Oh and Niki, I love that pun. It sounds like a dish they serve (or should serve).
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Nov 27, 2007 - 19 19
Sarah, i'm so sorry to hear that - what a terrible week for your and your family. We'll miss you, but go do what you need to do, be with your loved ones, all that necessary stuff. *hugs*
Ellen, our couches and futon are always open for late night crashers, so if you do come, please feel free to sack out with us. (That goes for pretty much everyone, but of course we would eventually run out of couch/futon space, so late-RSVPers get the floor.) Unlike the beginning of the month, the end falls on a weekend, so John and I won't be rushing off anywhere is the morning.
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Nov 30, 2007 - 10 52
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!
I've decided to stay in Longmont tonight. I have some cookies to bake and plans to make for NaNoWriYe!!!!!!!! Good luck to all. Remember, you are a NaNoWriMo journeyman, or possibly apprentice, and some, yes some, are NaNoWriMo GODS! Go get'em!
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Nov 30, 2007 - 17 48
I am happy to say that I shall be joining you all at 8 o'clock for the last grand push (going for 80k XD), till then,type away my dear friends, type away...
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Nov 30, 2007 - 20 00
So, IHOP's internet isn't working at the moment. Some of us are able to slurp up the wi-fi goodness via this other random signal floating around, but it's not reliable. If "IHOP Boulder" doesn't come back up in good time, we'll be migrating to Brewing Market (providing Mongoose with a lovely sense of deja vu) where the wi-fi is reliable and NaNoers can upload their word count without panic. Hopefully.
If we leave IHOP, we'll also leave word with the host on duty.
Watch this space for details.
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Nov 30, 2007 - 21 39
It's official. Mongoose, Keith, and I are at Brewing Market, the one on Baseline at Broadway ("Basemar Shopping Plaza"), which is open well past midnight. And its internet works.