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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325fba; padding-left: 5px; margin: 0px 5px 1em;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original message-----<br /><span><strong>From:</strong> Jay F. Shachter <jay@m5.chicago.il.us></span><br /><span><strong>Sent:</strong> Friday September 6th, 2024 16:20</span><br /><span><strong>To:</strong> ufo@ufo.chicago.il.us</span><br /><span><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [UFO Chicago] UFO Chicago September In-Person Meeting</span><br /><br /></span>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><br />The context of the following statement, for those of you who have not<br />been following, is that someone -- as represented by James ("Jim")<br />Mazurek, the guy didn't post anything himself -- wanted to move this<br />Sunday's UFO meeting to some place in Schaumburg, because it was<br />closer to some unrelated event that was also happening in Schaumburg,<br />or thereabouts, that the guy wanted to go to. I stated that taking<br />public transportation to Schaumburg (on a Sunday yet) was inconvenient<br />for me (not an exact quote, I said "bloody inconvenient") but I didn't<br />mind moving this Sunday's meeting to September 15 or even September 22<br />or 29. Jim Mazurek then wrote, on Tue Sep 3 09:11:05 2024:<br /><br />> <br />> Rather than spending time potentially going back and forth on this<br />> subject, I will state:<br />> <br />> I am not the boss of anything and no meeting requires my presence. I<br />> am only a single club member who has taken on a role of organizing<br />> regular meetings. If someone else would like to assume that role<br />> then let me know when and where the September UFO-Chicago in-person<br />> meeting will be.<br />> <br /><br />First of all, I totally understand Jim's unwillingness to continue to<br />act as an intermediary between this mailing list, and some guy who<br />doesn't want to post anything to this mailing list but wants Jim to<br />represent his position on it.<br /><br />Second of all, and more to the point, I am reminded of the dialog in<br />Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, scene 1:<br /><br /><br /> Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.<br /> Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when<br /> you do call for them?<br /><br /><br />So, I could accept Jim's invitation to assume the role of organizing<br />this group's meetings. But just because I (or any other man) proclaim<br />myself to be the meeting organizer, and proclaim that the next<br />in-person meeting will take place on September 15, or September 22, or<br />September 29, doesn't mean that anyone will pay any attention to what<br />I (or any other man) proclaim.<br /><br />So this is what I think. I think that if one or more of our in-person<br />regulars (of which there are only 4 or 5) want to go to Schaumburg, or<br />wherever, this Sunday, then that's cool, and let's have our in-person<br />meeting not this Sunday, but the following Sunday, the 15th. And if<br />no one posts any further messages on this mailing list, I'll take that<br />silence as denoting consent, and I'll show up at the Wendy's (the<br />regular one, near the Blue Line station) on the 15th, and not on the<br />8th, hopefully you all will be there too on the 15th. And if someone<br />on this mailing list disagrees with that, then that's cool, and tell<br />us what you think.</pre>
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<p style="padding: 0; margin: 0; ">I am likewise not thrilled at attending a dinner in Schaumburg, and am not planning to attend (and won't already be out that way). I'm not sure when it was discussed at the past Tuesday meeting; perhaps it was prior to me joining the meeting. I already have a full day next Sunday and may have to work the night before, so I'm not sure that I'll be able to attend on the 15th. I can try to attend. I am available on the 22nd and 29th.</p>
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<p style="padding: 0; margin: 0; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Matt</span></p>
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