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Re: A brief state of NELUG message.
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 13:16:26 GMT
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Oops!
I forgot to say "congratulations", Eric!
I don't envy you the upcoming debate over what toys are shared and which are dad's
and dad's alone :)
congratulations again!
shaun
Eric Kingsley wrote:
> I realize things have been a little slow on the NELUG front lately so I thought
> I would give an update.
>
> First off for those that don't know my wife and I have recently found out that
> we are expecting our first baby so that is part of my excuse for not being so
> persistant in trying to set up meetings. I have also been spending about every
> free second I have building because I know that in a few months time my
> building time is going to diminish greatly. Then I am going to progress back
> through Primo/Baby, Duplo, and back to System. So in a way it is good because
> I will be able to experiance the whole TLC line of products.
>
> Anyway enough about me. As most of you know we are working on our Castle
> display for the Constrution Site. The setup date is still to be determined but
> things are progressing well and we should have plenty of creations to fill the
> window. Dave Eaton and I have been putting together some generic buildings to
> fill space if we need to but I don't think that many of them are going to be
> necessary.
>
> As far as meetings go we recently had a small meeting at Dan Moquin's house in
> CT primarily to set our Castle stuff up for the first time. For meetings in
> the future I would like to see if we can have people either host or setup
> meetings whereever and whenever they want. We have no formal structure to our
> group so please don't think that there is some board deciding when meetings
> will be held.
>
> If you live in New Hampshire and are into Mindstorms then feel free to post
> something and set up a meeting of your own. Or if you live in Rhode Island and
> you are into Classic Space and what to have a meeting please do.
>
> I know that Shaun Sullivan has been working on hosting a Brick Wars meeting
> although I don't know where that stands. I know that Shaun is in school so his
> schedule is a bit crazy.
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> Also if you have an idea for a different type of meeting please post it. Most
> of our meetings have been just a bunch of people talking about the Brick which
> I love but if you want to do something different like host a building day or
> take a field trip please post your ideas.
>
> Membership is still strong we are up to 86 total members with more than half
> those in Massachusetts. If you want to see the Membership distribution please
> check the NELUG home page http://www.nelug.org . Membership seems to go in
> spurts (I can't remember the last time I only got 1 submission in a day) we
> will get 2 or 3 submissions and then it is quite for a few days then another
> spurt. I believe that to date about 1/4 of the members that submitted a form
> have attended a meeting.
>
> I will be out of town for the last 2 weeks of March so I probably will not be
> able to attend a March meeting if we have one. If there is interest in another
> BU meeting or a Bison Country meeting please speak up because I am sure there
> are others that would like to come.
>
> Followups to lugnet.org.us.nelug
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> Thanks again,
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> Eric Kingsley
>
> The New England LEGO Users Group
> http://www.nelug.org/
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> View My Creations at:
> http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
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| (...) Thanks! (...) Actually the question has already been raised :-). To tell you the truth I have just said to make it a "wait and see" issue seeing it will probably be a couple of years before they want LEGO and the Duplo and Primo stuff is (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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