Next Meeting?

[Andrew Wilson]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:47:47PM -0800, schwern at ttul.org wrote:
> > > If we would like Schwern to speak will need to raise the money for his
> > > travel costs.  He will be in Amsterdam and can fly with Easyjet.  Any
> > > ideas as to how we should raise the money?
> > 
> > How much is a flight likely to be 40 quidish.  get definite numbers and
> > stick a door charge on it.
> 
> Last I checked it was about 60 each way, easyjet.com has chosen this moment 
> to go belly up in a way its planes hopefully won't so I can't confirm, but 
> that's about right.  OTOH if I can somehow get to London a round trip to 
> Belfast is a just 3.00.  Crazy airlines run by crazy millionaires++.

If you book it early enough and are flexible about when you travel you
can potentially get a flight for about 60 euro + tax one way.  More
popular flights are more expensive and it gets dearer if you book closer
to when you want to leave.  Crazy airlines run by crazy millionaires++
indeed, although I suspect that's what we call a loss leader.
 
> I feel like a heel asking for money to come over and speak, but money's 
> real tight and jobs are far between.  Ingy and I are currently working as
> blacksmith's assistants to pay the rent, which is actually kinda fun and I've 
> only been wounded once [1] and the smith doesn't beat us quite so hard and 
> the black lung from inhaling steel dust isn't so bad *cough*cough* [2]

This is cool beyond words.
 
> Whatever you can come up with, in paper, metal or liquid form, will be 
> lovely and I thank you for the show of appreciation. [3]
> 
> I'll book a flight to come in sometime on Sunday and fly out... I dunno.  
> Would Wednesday be too long to slob around?

I'm looking forward to seeing you. I seem to remember that I drank more
of the whiskey milkshake than you did. But, as Marc has said,
unfortunately that fine eatery is now out of business.

andrew
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