<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 2011/02/18, at 11:00 , Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><p>Ehhhhh</p><p>I bunked this sessuon since i left home at 7:15 and</p></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><p>came back after driving 10 mins thinking I wont make</p></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><p>it b4 8 and will loose lot of material covered. </p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry you decided not to join us last night. Just so you</div><div>know for the future, we try to accommodate for late arrivals</div><div>to ALE meetings by calling things to order about 7:35 / 7:40</div><div>(being sensitive the numerous interesting conversations</div><div>inevitably going on), and then announcements (etc) for the</div><div>first few minutes. This also gives the presenter time to get</div><div>plugged in and settled. We target the start of the main</div><div>presentation for 7:45pm.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><p>Wish there was an update from folks saying not started,</p></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><p>abt to start, just started like that so tardy fks like me can</p></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><p>come over (or atlesst decide to)</p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We follow the schedule above very consistently and</div><div>last night's 8:05 start was a very rare exception.</div><div>A few unusual circumstances of traffic and transport</div><div>converged to delay the arrival of our presenter, and</div><div>he could not give us an accurate ETA until about</div><div>7:35 anyway. The kind of problems that disrupt</div><div>the meeting schedule are always going to be last</div><div>minute issues like that.</div><div><br></div><div>As a rule I don't tweet, twitter or text, so the generous</div><div>accommodations we already provide in our Central</div><div>Meeting schedule for the chronologically challenged</div><div>will have to suffice. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>peace</div><div>aaron</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 18, 2011 10:49 AM, "Randy Ramsdell" <<a href="mailto:rramsdell@activedg.com">rramsdell@activedg.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:<br> > Just curious what time did you guys start<br>> <br></font></p>I started at 8:30am. They are real nit picky here<br><p><font color="#500050"><br><br>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Randy Ramsdell <<a href="mailto:rramsdell@activedg.com">rramsdell@activedg.com</a> </font></p><p><font color="#500050">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rramsdell@activedg.com">rramsdell@activedg.com</a>>> wrote:<br> > <br>> David Tomaschik wrote:<br>> <br>> > It's my hope t...</font></p>> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a>><br><p><font color="#500050">> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>> h...</font></p></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>