[UFO Chicago] October In-Person UFO Meetings

[Jay F. Shachter]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Matthew T. Gibbs would write on Tue Sep 26 22:28:03 2023:

> 
> On Tuesday, September 26, 2023 1:45:40 PM CDT Jay F. Shachter wrote:
>>
>> Esteemed Colleagues:
>> 
>> Are people willing to switch the in-person and online meetings next
>> month, doing the Sunday evening in-person meeting on the 4th week
>> (October 22), and doing the Tuesday evening on-line meeting on the 2nd
>> week (October 3)?  (Parenthetically, do we still need to have on-line
>> meetings at all?  I hate them.)  The reason I ask is that the 2nd
>> Sunday of next month, October 8, is a major Jewish festival, the 2nd
>> day of Sukkoth (and the 3rd Sunday of the month, October 15, is also a
>> major Jewish festival, Simhath Torah), so practicing Jews will not be
>> able to attend the October in-person meeting if it is not rescheduled.
>> As of the latest count, practicing Jews constitute between 20% and 25%
>> of the regulars at our in-person Sunday meetings, so maybe that is a
>> large enough minority to consider a schedule change.
>>
>
> Hi Jay-
> 
> I am willing to switch, but I would propose that we keep the normal
> meeting date of October 24 and simply switch the 2nd Sunday to being
> on-line and the 24th to be in-person at Wendy's on Harlem.  This
> would be less confusing and people may already have conflicts on the
> 22nd.
> 

That's fine with me; the reason for my original proposal is that I
didn't know whether Wendy's might perhaps be more available to us on
Sundays than on weekdays -- maybe Wendy's is busier on weekdays than
on Sundays and might be less able to let us have a couple of spare
tables.  If Wendy's is just as available to us on a Tuesday evening as
on a Sunday evening, then I fully concur with your proposal, and I am
confident that in this matter I speak for the entire 20% to 25% of our
in-person regulars for whom an in-person meeting on the originally-
scheduled 2nd Sunday of the month conflicts with a religious holiday.


>
> Best,
> 
> Matt
> 

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