@Hank - bring wife, millennial, realtor with you. Lots of properties to look at around here. No reason you can't combine the existing two into a third house located here. Or, given that it's October and you don't know quite what to do with yourselves, you can find a vacation house down here to complement house #3 up there. It's only logical.
@bill - Sunday has the benefit of maids coming through on Monday. Saturday has the benefit of wandering the house on Sunday, gingerly snaking around piles o' crap, while "living off the land" food-wise... and THEN the maids show up on Monday.
We do have a couple of problematical dates in October, e.g., a fundraiser we're giving for
Mila Johns, who is running for state rep here in MD. (She's a counter-terrorist specialist, really smart, quite thoughtful and insightful.) I'm not sure it's a plus for the Tesla crowd to wind up here during that fundraiser (which is Sat Oct 21 from 5 pm onwards)... as in, I'm not sure you and the other drivers would enjoy having that be the "destination". For that matter, I dunno whether the candidate herself would find it a plus or a minus. I'd only look further at that particular date if you and anyone else opinionated on this thread told me that maybe it'd be fun.
Headcount - I used to be a sorta computer-y guy. So, computational complexity-wise, O(100) = O(1) = C. So I just told The Wife that Constant number of people will be showing up, and she was happy.
She muttered something about "potluck", I muttered something about "hey, look at the time! gotta go!"(*) so not sure where we'll wind up on that one. I guess it'll partly depend on confirmed headcount. And your opinion, opinions from threader readers, yadda yadda yadda.
Name - maybe we can call this the Fritchle Affair.
Dates - looking at our calendar, we're good for:
+ Sat Oct 7
+ Sun Oct 8
+ Sat Oct 14 - but Jessica is hosting the Maryland chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby / Climate XChange / Maryland carbon pricing legislation tiger team, roughly 12-3, which means 6 pm party start is not completely unthinkable but definitely more challenging
+ Sun Oct 15
+ Sat Oct 21 - as described above, 5 pm onwards for Mila Johns-for-state-rep
+ Sun Oct 22
+ Sat Oct 28 / Sun Oct 29 - probably traveling
Whaddya say?
Alan
(*)My tastes run towards the chefs who took care of us at the Carbon Pricing Awareness Raffle / Tesla Party, Sep 26, 2015. In fact, we're gonna have them here for Thanksgiving, so it wouldn't be out of the question to do something with them and this Tesla trip on, say, Friday November 24 or Sat Nov 25. ***BUT*** (a) that's a long way from now, and (2) the weather will be much riskier than in mid-October, and (iii) it could be a little complicated for all concerned to mix Thanksgiving and road-tripping. But by mentioning it, I'm putting the thought out there...
