[UFO Chicago] UFO-Meeting Today?

[James L Mazurek]

Hello All:

Let's cancel tonight's in-person meeting and reschedule our January 
in-person meeting for Sunday, January 28. I will host an on-line meeting 
tonight and the January 4th Tuesday meeting scheduled for January 23rd 
will remain an on-line meeting.

Jim Mazurek

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024, James L Mazurek wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> Tomorrow 1/14 is our scheduled second Sunday in-person meeting. However,
> there is a windchill advisory for the area over the next few days. The
> predicted nighttime temperature for Sunday may be as low as -6 F with 
> wind chill values as low as -27 F.
>
> Should we cancel and re-schedule? Maybe we could swap the in-person and
> on-line meetings for January in the hopes that the weather conditions 
> are improved on 1/23 for an in-person meeting?
> If anyone has a preference or suggestion let me know.
>
> Jim Mazurek
>


On Sat, 13 Jan 2024, Neil R. Ormos wrote:

> Hi Jim:
>
> I think it's fine to make the 1/14 meeting an online meeting.
>
> As for swapping, I'd like to suggest that the in-person meeting be on
> Sunday instead of Tuesday.  I would find it more difficult to attend an 
> in-person meeting at the Nugget on a Tuesday night.  However, now that 
> the expressway construction has been abated for a few months, I would 
> try to attend at the Nugget if the meeting were on a Sunday night, e.g., 
> the 28th.  (I believe the long-term forecast has warmer weather on the 
> 28th than on the 21st.)  OTOH, I think I'm the only attendee among the 
> usuals in the situation of needing to commute to the meeting from the 
> suburbs by car.
>
> --Neil
>


On Sat, 13 Jan 2024, Matthew T. Gibbs wrote:

> Hi Jim-
>
> I can't reply to the list right now but I'm out of town this weekend so 
> I won't make it to the meeting.
>
> Matt
>


On Sun, 14 Jan 2024, Kendall Griffith wrote:

> I will not be venturing out for the meeting. Ken
>


On Sun, 14 Jan 2024, CAREY SCHUG wrote:

> With inflation, my response has lengthened to $5 or so.... LOL
>
> 1. Voting for today should only be people who have come to live meetings
> in the recent past, or had RSVPed that they were coming tonight, so I am 
> not voting on what to do today.
>
> 2. Only people who attend virtually should vote on whether to make the
> other meeting live, so I vote it not be changed.  That is just fairness.
>
> Discussion:  That said, your meetings have been rescheduled in the past,
> so unless regulars have replied privately that they would come today,
> that is reasonable.  And of course, I would love an additional online
> meeting.  I am expecting to miss my SECOND live concert (this week)
> today due to the cold.  Luckily I will only be out $30 each for the
> tickets.  Friday was missed because roads were to treacherouos for me to
> want to drive that distance.
>
> I don't know if you got any votes from (recent) past live attendees. I
> see several others have said they would not come but they did not say
> anything beyond that about rescheduling or swapping.  Of course I don't
> know if they have attended live.
>
> Though unlikely, you might want to check, now and again before leaving,
> that the Wendy's didn't have pipes freeze, insufficient business, or
> something else.
>
> OTHER GROUPS:  I don't know of any other groups that alternate live
> (only) and online (only).
>
> One weekly group that roughly alternates live-only and combined has
> switched individual weeks, to online-only due to bad weather or facility
> availability without changing the schedule for any other weeks.  Their
> weekly announcement comes out later today, I expect they will do so for
> tomorrow's event.
>
> Another group that is normally combined (Iowa) has fallen back to online
> only for today, and one more (Washington state) has said they might.
> already urging past live-only attendees to come online.
>
> PS and aside: wow, they just said it was -8 at O'Hare right now.  Not
> windchill.  My city borders O'Hare on the north.  I woke up warm and
> toasty, because I actually turned my heat up to 67 or so from the usual
> 62 so that if the power went out I would have an extra little buffer.
>
>
> <pre>--Carey</pre>
>


On Sun, 14 Jan 2024, Jay F. Shachter wrote:

> If I get a followup e-mail message confirming an in-person meeting
> tonight, I will be there (assuming the buses are running).  But, since
> you asked if anyone has a preference, I prefer to permanently swap the
> 2nd-Sunday and 4th-Tuesday meetings.  I don't like staying out late on
> Sundays, because the buses stop running earlier, and for other reasons
> also, I prefer to go to bed early on Sunday, and stay out late on a
> weekday.  This is not a weather-related preference, but, since you
> asked, I prefer to meet in person this month -- and every month -- on
> the 4th Tuesday.
>
>
>        Jay F. Shachter
>


On Sun, 14 Jan 2024, Page Telegram wrote:

> ill attend if online
>