No Getaway for me this year

Subject: No Getaway for me this year
From: Charmion
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 10:58 AM

Alas and alack, I shall be hard at work here in Ottawa this year while more mobile 'Catters enjoy the Getaway hospitality of the Folklore Society of Greater Washington. I have been asked to teach the writing component of the semi-annual two-week Defence Public Affairs Course, and the first weekend of November falls right in the middle of it.

Edmund is planning to be there, however, so the Getaway will not lack for civilizing influence from the Great White North.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 11:04 AM

I shall miss that smile and your presence greatly, m'dear. I guess Edmund and I will have to drink that beer (that we won't be telling anyone about) all by ourselves.

Next year then.

Mick

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 12:31 PM

alack and alas.... we regret the lack of a lass. We promise not to allow Edmund too much fun without you.

Perhaps next year! (and I am currently cutting up tree particles...hope to have something to show!)

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 01:41 PM

What Bill said - what was it he said?

I'm sorry I'll miss you, Charmion, but I suppose Canada will be much safer with you there to defend it. I hiope you enjoy teaching the course.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Micca
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 06:11 PM

Oh, Bugger!!!! I was hoping you could be there!! My sympathies to you for being stuck at work.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: GUEST,Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 07:49 AM

Charmion wrote: I have been asked to teach the writing component of the semi-annual two-week Defence Public Affairs Course, and the first weekend of November falls right in the middle of it.

Your annual mission to teach 'em "How to Write Good"? A work of supererogation?

Andrew

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 08:22 AM

Superegoration?
G ☻

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 08:35 AM

Supererogoration:

Function: noun
Etymology: Medieval Latin supererogation-, supererogatio, from supererogare to perform beyond the call of duty, from Late Latin, to expend in addition, from Latin super- + erogare to expend public funds after asking the consent of the people, from e- + rogare to ask: the act of performing more than is required by duty, obligation, or need

Me, I'm still not sure if I'm going.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 09:37 AM

Well Jeri, many will be very disappointed if you don't. But, don't let the thought of our sadness & tears put any pressure on you...we'll..*sniff*...survive somehow....

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: karen k
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 09:46 AM

I'm not 100% definite sure this year either.

karen

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 01:07 PM

Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
nuf said

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 01:24 PM

It was a pun Jeri, read it carefully!
G.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Janie
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 01:32 PM

Hey Joe Clones! Close this thread before anyone else says they ain't coming! If they can't post, then they have to come, right?

Janie

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 03:56 PM

Sheesh, Giok! Ya want me to READ TOO!?

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: ranger1
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 07:43 PM

Well phooey! So, Charmion, does this mean that you will be attending Sinsull's annual New Year's Eve bash to make up for it?

And the more important question: Will Edmund be wanting his hat back?

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: CET
Date: 12 Oct 06 - 09:01 PM

Heavens no, Ranger 1. The hat is yours. It makes my heart go pitty pat to think that you are advertising the Canadian Forces Legal Branch. I wear my new Maine Department of Conservation hat all the time.

I have been putting off making a commitment to the Getaway since I have been warned that I might be going overseas as part of a UN Mission. However, I have now been told that if that mission does happen, I won't be going anywhere in November so I can take my leave as scheduled. I don't like going without Charmion, but she is encouraging me to go.

So Mick, are you going to wear your kilt or are you just a wannabe kilt wearer?

Edmund

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Charmion
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 04:22 PM

As it happens, I worked a whole whack of overtime doing the Departmental Performance Report in September, thus racking up more than a week of "time in lieu of pay" as we so quaintly say in the Public Service of Canada. That extra holiday time will come in very handy for an insane dead-of-winter road trip to the Atlantic coast complete with mandolin, guitar and Edmund -- assuming Her Majesty doesn't have other plans for him.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 05:49 PM

Hooray!·......But if Nov. is 'dead of Winter'...what is Jan.?

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 06:08 PM

The first month of 2007.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Maryrrf
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 06:27 PM

Yay, Charmion. So you will be at the Getaway after all!

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Janie
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 11:34 PM

Hip hip Hurray!

Janie

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: jacqui.c
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 08:28 AM

Good news!

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: CET
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 09:23 AM

Well, no, alas. The insane dead of winter trip means the trip from Ottawa to Maine for Sinsull's New Year's Eve party, which we hope to be able to do this year. Charmion is definitely committed elsewhere during the Getaway.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 02:47 PM

Great God in Heaven.

I am NOT planning to go (though anything can happen at the last minute).

But now there's talk of Mick in a kilt in Maryland.... next thing you know, all you closet kilt wearers will feel empowered and encouraged, and....

It would be best if you all went someplace else, far away, and didn't tell me where....

Dani

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 03:39 PM

Dani, I am now feeling very disempowered and I can feel my self-esteem draining away. I can barely summon the willpower to put finger to keyboard. I may require a quick infusion of my favourite 8 year old Irish whisky.

As for Mick in a kilt in Maryland, the talk about it hasn't really attained the status of rumour - it's more in the nature of sober intellectual inquiry. One has heard that Mick possesses a kilt. One is intrigued, but one wonders if the world is ready for the sight.

I forgive you for your harsh words about kilt wearers. I'll have you know that my knees have won rave reviews from the cognoscenti.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: CET
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 05:18 PM

For some reason I forgot to log myself in. The post from Guest is from me.

CET

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 05:47 PM

Now hold on, Mick in a kilt - I may have to rob a bank or two and make it after all.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Big Mick
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 06:09 PM

Mick indeed does possess such a garment. And for you sad excuses for men that might make disparaging remarks, you should remember that real men wear these things. And the real women love them for it. Alas, I haven't worn mine since I put this weight back on. But I do have it with me here in Jersey. I am figuring I will reward myself when I lose about 30 lbs, which I am working on, and start wearing it again. I thought I would start by wearing it to chaperone my daughters Freshman School Dance. I have waited many years to embarass my children.

Remind me to tell the story sometime of the woman who just had to see what I had on under the kilt..... priceless.

Mick

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 06:21 PM

Family jewels are always priceless.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 06:46 PM

Dani - forget Mick's kilt. Wait until you see the get-up Jacqui and I have stored away for Mick's appearance with "The Ladies". You and your girls have to see this.

WHEEEEE Charmion and Edmund for New Year's?

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Barry Finn
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 06:56 PM

HaHaHaHaHaHa..... catch my breath.....hEhEhhEhE... Mick in a kilt???

Mick says
"I haven't worn mine since I put this weight back on. But I do have it with me here in Jersey. I am figuring I will reward myself when I lose about 30 lbs"

Mick don't bother,,,,,, catch breath again,,,,,,,
keep the 30 lbs on, believe me, I'm your friend,,, you'll never look better.   

Those knees,,,,,,

HoHoHoHo

ROTFLMAO

Barry

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Amos
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 07:17 PM

Dani:

Hell, if it would lure you to the Getaway, I'd volunteer to wear Mick's kilt on alternate evenings. But, since you seem adamant...



A

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 12:12 AM

Boy, I have never felt so misunderstood.

I wasn't running aWAY! I was giving you all a chance to run for your lives!

Dani

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: karen k
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:12 PM

Well, looks like I must join the list of no shows this year. It's been an agonizing decision. I love the Getaway but there is just too much going on right now and I really need to stay home. I was very much looking forward to the new location. Next year for sure. At least I can go to NOMAD which is in commuting distance.

Well, I hope everyone has a fantastic time and I look forward to reading all about it with great envy when it is over.

karen

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:19 PM

That's a heartbreaker, karen. I will miss you.

Love ya,

Mick

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:20 PM

I hate this thread!
SINS

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: MMario
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:22 PM

me too.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: kendall
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:33 PM

Dani, I knew exactly what you meant! Check your e mail.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: nutty
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:52 PM

One of my ambitions is to attend a getaway. Next year maybe ... you've got to have things to strive for in life.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: GUEST,Tinker
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 05:45 PM

Karen, take the travel time your missing and find a minute to take a deep breath and pamper yourself. I think everyone who can't come and recharge with the rest of us needs to spend a few minutes Getaway weekend in appropriate behavior -- no matter where they are.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Nancy King
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 07:16 PM

"Appropriate behavior"....   Hmmmmmm, that can be interpreted in any of several ways...

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 08:05 PM

Oh...

I thought she said "in appropriate behavior."

Okey Dokey!

Dani ; )

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 10:06 PM

Sorry "STATE" of offairs.

A long-wiccan...mudcat member offered their backyard for a Western "GATEWAY -Type" gathering.

In true wiccan fashion...the offer...the thread...the postings have vanished....

However, seek deep and the sources may seap between.

Like mind friends, may gather soon.

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 10:38 PM

vanished? Not if you do a 3-day refresh! 200 posts...all there.

...and it's 'seep'.*grin*

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 09:27 AM

I thought I'd refresh this thread for the benefit of those who like myself cannot attend this week-end's gathering.

I hope they're all having great fun. But I just wish they wouldn't sing so loud late at night; it's keeping me awake! And, Amos, will you please re-tune your G-string! And, Sinsull, how could you!

Charley Noble, marooned in Maine

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 10:53 AM

What was I thinking- I planned to spend some time yesterday afternoon 'tuned in' to the 4-hour later Getaway. Late last night I realized, Hey! They're still up!

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 12:22 PM

I got up this morning about 9:30 AM, and thought 'Hey they'll just be going to bed' !!
Giok

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: GUEST,KT
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 01:16 PM

Giok, even for you with the time change and all, I suspect they were still going strong !!

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Charmion
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 02:28 PM

I'm back in Ottawa for the weekend, after teaching all week at a military public affairs course in Cornwall. I can't remember when I was last so exhausted -- I have 26 students, which is at least 13 too many. Today I'm doing laundry, and tomorrow I will be busy preparing next week's lessons. No rest for the weary wicked.

I wish I were there, if only for Edmund's company -- Bill, Perdy and Lucy have had nothing to say but "MEOW"! which I freely translate as "Where the hell have you been?"

Sing one or six for me, please, and buy a drink for the next mandolin player you happen to meet.

Ch

Subject: RE: No Getaway for me this year
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Nov 06 - 03:30 PM

Oh, I just noticed that down in the BS section there's a thread entitled Can't Getaway Mudcat Tavern.

There we can piss and moan and drown our sorrows.

Charley Noble