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What time are people getting in? Do you need rides from airports? Directions? Etc.

Southwest Flight 2008 from Oakland to Phoenix, arriving Saturday at 3:55 PM local time.
Southwest Flight 984 from Phoenix to Oakland, departing Monday at 2:40 PM local time.

Ride = yesplz.

Is there some itinerary for this weekend?  My wife is trying to micromanage my vacation and I need whatever you have.

I don't understand the question. It's going to be 400 degrees, the itinerary is Not to Die.

400 degrees... How many people? I think I have a plan but I need a body count. (err to prevent a body count).

You're saying I need to stay in the airport, then?

Is there a bar in the airport? Of course there is. You could just call the whole thing in from there. It would be a lot safer then facing the heat....

Y'all are weak. Back when I lived in Phoenix, it was 122 degrees every day, uphill both ways, and we had to stop flying before noon because the runways weren't long enough!

Seriously though--I tried to figure out a way I could come on down, and I do feel for you given the timing and the heat wave...g'luck and have fun :)

It's easy enough to go from air conditioned dome to air conditioned dome with minimal exposure to searing heat. 

This video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3PXiV95kwA) has several helpful pointers.

Did you have shoes?

I, for one, look forward to some good dry heat, seeing as how I wake up to a moist 55 degrees most days.

No! They made us wear green garbage bags (http://www.patriotsurplus.com/Shop/Control/Product/fp/vpid/2363681/vpcsid/0/SFV/31182) and big black boots (http://www.patriotsurplus.com/Shop/Control/Product/fp/vpid/2905655/vpcsid/0/SFV/31182) every day all day!

I can still remember the feel of driving home after a day of flying with my neck chafing from the crusted up dried salt from my sweat, hehe.

They made you wear women's shoes?  I thought the military frowned on that sort of thing...

Lol woops! I just grabbed one that looked mostly like what I wore, didn't check the label! /blush

Should I be bringing the original copy of Apples To Apples: F13 Edition? I think I can fit it in my suitcase.

Risky!

Yes.

Arriving Friday, 6:30 PM from Detroit.  A ride shouldn't be necessary, I'll just get a cab.

Pretty sure I will be arriving before noon on Friday, but I have to get settled and whatnot, so I figure I will roll in around dusk.  Do I need to call dibs on a parking spot?

Your odds of survival are significantly reduced if you Stay in Sky Harbor any longer than necessary.

Piker. We had SNOW in Tucson. Once. An entire inch. 5% of the population died of strokes and the rest acted like it was The Armageddon. Ask anyone about he Winter of '90 and they'll go into that Post Traumatic Stress 10k mile stare.

Not flying in, live here.

I have Friday and Saturday off from work.  Have to work Sunday.

Need directions and an idea when stuff is happening.

Stuff. People keep thinking I planned "things." This is a dangerous thought sphere we're heading into.

"We had a slinky.  I straightened it."

I'm assuming the only plans for the weekend come in liquid form and are measured in proof.

Other than that, hay guyz, let's play some games and try not to murder each other.

See, those are pretty much the plans. There's a couple local joints worth eating at, otherwise, we're just gonna bum around. I'm pretty sure Lanei would know more about local eats than us. Like good hole in the wall shit. Smoking just got banned in Phoenix though. That's a Problem.

For you maybe. The rest of us get sweet, sweet stale-beer air.  8-)

I have been to Arizona.  Don't go outside!  You will burst into flames! 

Really.

You're a smoker?  Fantastic!

Does this mean I won't have to go outside like a petty criminal to get my fix?

I assume someone has been designated to record and document this event for the enjoyment of those of us smart enough not to attend?

What happens in schilds house stays in schilds house  :nda:

As the only non-drunk person there with a camera I'll be sure to document the proceedings.

You smoke but don't drink?!

There are many cameras. I may have filled the house with them. oh noes.

Schild might have awful, deviant perverted habits but I bet he doesn't smoke in his own house.  He is much too persnickety for that.

We smoke in the house.

Have the tattoos been finalized?  And are they scheduled after the heavy drinking?

I approve of the f13 reality show!

On behalf of all non-smokers, just let me say; Ewww.

I'm guessing that its a side effect of it being 187 degrees outside that you have decided to smoke indoors, but I will now forever assume that your house smells like my Grandmother's Craven A infused house.

Mind you, my house smells like a brewery, but at least that disappears when you clean up.

We only smoke in 2 rooms. The air purifier, Jurgan (yes, we name things), while not industrial enough to clean while smoking, will make the air smell minty fresh within about 36 hours if we quit smoking in the house. It does good work.

I'm shocked!  What's happened to you?  You used to be so dainty.

Since before f13 (2002ish) I've had no problem smoking inside. That would apply to 2 apartments and now this house.

I'm sure you have air purifiers, though.  Don't respond!

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Is this thing still going down? when is it, and can monkey come?  :-P

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wow, that is a lot of green box. anyone that is coming play fighting games? do i need to bring the stand up arcade stick? 

Get some time off work, get monday sunday off!

i don't work on sunday anyway. but i may be able to get monday...but most likely not.  :x

Tell those jokers that it's not like they have work for you to do anyway.

ha, yeah next week will be pretty slow for monkey. like half the company will be in orlando. man i love how there is fast response here. very nifty.
oh man i am going to take a picture of my genesis collection man. it is getting brutal. i was playing some streets of rage 3 with my kid the other day. that kid is going to be one cultured game player hahahah.

I think you should get monday and tuesday off.

i don't know mang. i have to be here cause no one else will. besides, it looks good if i am at work and working. as opposed to at your house getting plastered. hahahah besides i can't be wasted for like 3 days in  a row, my old lady would kill me. but i will show up for a couple of the days to hang out and and drink and play games and watch people get tattoos, if that is still going down.

I think you should ditch Phoenix and come to Orlando with the rest of the company so we could chill here.  But that's just me.

HA phildooooooooooooooooooooooo!  :inluv: i miss you jerk-wad! man i wish you couid come down to az for this hahah, anyway, yeah one of us had to stay here and i got picked. how are things goin in orlando bloom?

I can drive to Orlando in six hours, and I don't recall almost dying there.  Not from solar radiation or man-eating arthropods, anyway.

You should sell hotdogs hammer...

Only thing that might kill me hear is having to sit through more lectures on Photoshop or GoLive.  Or the meatheads... I can't figure out what they're doing here.

I'm still debating flying down for this... I'll have to see what I can get done by Friday.  You guys need a chaperon.

hahahahahahah plz do

edit: we're out of room at the house btw.

You should, Nebu.  I have a feeling they might need a medical professional.

Thankfully I have one of those "Job" things.  I can afford the finest luxury accomodations an academic salary can provide (i.e. Motel 6).

Oh, I'm not a 12 stepper or anything; I'll have a couple of beers.  But I'm out of my twenties, man.  The days of enjoying being fucked up are long gone for me.  I don't like being drunk any more, and I sure as hell don't like the hangovers.

Also, seriously, do you want the man with needles in his hand to Not be sober?

Arrive Phoenix on US Airways 507 at 5:20 pm Saturday.

Depart (at least that's the plan) Tuesday 7:30. (7:32 actually. WTF? What airline departs at 7:32??)

Ride unnecessary  from the Airport, I'll just cab to the hotel. I'll call schild on his cell upon arrival.

Looking forward to it.

And whilst I may be canadian, having been born in africa, worked in singapore and lived in australia im kinda looking forward to it. I'm one of the few canadians who's never been east of the rockies...

Hate to break it to you, but Arizona is still west of the Rockies, more or less.

Are you sure that you don't want to come out of the closet at this time?

clarify: Never east of the Rockies in canada . Been all over the eastern USA.

Only time I've been east of Calgary and still in the homeland was when I was 7, so it doesn't really count. As a result, I've booked myself a trip to Quebec next month, just for the hell of it.

I live in Calgary, and I've never really been east of there.

I've been meaning to ask Mr. Gulp - is that a RL picture of you?

Landing at PHX, which I assume is Sky Harbor, at 1040 but I will be spending daylight hours at the resort.  Going to try to not get lost driving from Carefree to Chandler sometime around sundown.  Will report back to Carefree at some time TBD for Saturday daytime events, then return to Chandler for more evening events.  Departing PHX at 1127 on Sunday.

I will be neither drinking (in any significant capacity) nor smoking.  Refer to Gulp's comment on same.

I love getting the top of the page.

wack attack, i was hoping more people would be drinking. i was hammered last weekend so i may have to take it easy.

Are you a violent drunk?  Should I stop yanking your chain?

Please don't hurt me.

I seen him. He may be able to kill you with his bare hands.

I'll be drinking.  Not 30 yet and my life needs the booze at the moment.

Nope, that's Fernando, my house boy.

Not in any way. Nicest drunk you ever met. I am actually really excited to meet all the people coming, this should be a lot of fun.

Rasix: Do i know you?!?!?

We've met once.  I'm the guy that had to leave once you all started naming shots after kung fu moves.

He could be my evil twin...the Goate' gives away the evil twin part.

You are much more delicate than BG, although you are both beauties in the classic sense.   :lol:

OH that is right. Ha, you need to hang out more. Kung Fu shots are great. :wink:

Why do I get the impression that half of that game is just quoting Legend of Drunken Master?

If it makes you feel better, you're oh so wrong. There's a Kung-Fu Move Generator I've got bookmarked. It's HOT.

Edit: We really should have made a tobasco/vodka drink called 1,000 Crying Cranes.

This is going to end in tears.

Ah, the making up of drinks. I am disappointed that I won't be there to encourage people to drink stupid things. Or things that are actually good, but you people think are stupid, like Caesars.

When my friends and I were about 19, we had a party and I did a liquor store run for every mixable booze we could think of. Then we proceded to see who could invent the least palatable shooter. The winner was dubbed the Epileptic Fit:

 - one part Jack Daniels
 - one part Banana Liqueur
 - one part Bailey's - which should instantly curdle

It had the look and approximate consistency of vomit in a glass. Ah, memories.

Oh, and I agree with some of the guys here - eventually you reach an age where getting shitfaced just isn't fun anymore. I wish you didn't, but you do. Or you become an alchoholic.

Have fun.

Dalsim rulez.

Ookiih tried to make me take a shot with Windex in it once.

I suggest competition quarters. Sit about ten people around a table. Two shot glasses, two quarters. Start each set on opposite sides of the table. When you sink one, pass it to the left. When on glass catches up to the other (you sink one while the guy on your left is still trying to sink one), the person left holding the two glasses does a funnel. At least one beer, we used to use three.

I'm also an old man who used to drink more than humanly possible (band days ftw) but don't enjoy being shitfaced anymore. I have a few tasty beers, maybe a shot or two with old buddies.

I made a guy smoke Fruit Loops once.

Hey jackass stop crapping on the thread, and you did drink the shot.

Yeah I can see myself getting pretty wrecked this weekend.

Big ups to all the F13 homies in Phoenix this weekend, sounds like it will be a blast.  I'll try to make it down one of these years....maybe I'll have my post count up by then    8-)

Same. I may be old, but i still like drinking more than i hate hangovers.  :rock:

I demand a drunk dial since I can't be there.  No excuses.

LOL. PM me your number. I'm a notorious drink and dialer. Hell I have a films worth of funny stories involving everything from deaf japanese girls to going to jail at a corporate offsite that all end in a drunken dialing.

Record it.  This is internet meme territory.

Heh. Drunk Dialing strangers.

Maybe we should just get some darts and a phone book.

Alrighty, airport bound.

I am absolutely going to call Phildo when I am wrecked. I miss that dude.

airport bound eta 5:30

Ok this is a dangerous town. I got picked up by a cougar - willingly I'll admit - before i got my first slice of pizza. I haven't managed to get out of Scottsdale yet, but am headed to the f13 house first thing tomorrow am.

Um, Scottsdale at least but from what I understand this is common, has a unbelievable amount of cute women...

So how was your pie?

Sorry I missed you, Squirrel.  As for the cute girls, I think I was in the wrong area.

Or perhaps the heat has made the locals a bit loopy.

The heat isn't that bad.  Really.  It's only bad if you stay outside for too long and don't have water; too long would be something like two hours, depending.  The people I met were all very nice, however, and love to talk to strangers.  Also, not very many bugs.  I give AZ ten thumbs up.

Only nice thingys like scorpions, black widows and rattlesnakes survive that sort of desert heat.  You obviously did stay out in the sun too long and half your brain melted.  You are all thumbs and you talk to strangers.  I'm worried that both your feet are left, too.  How can you survive?

And Signe knows brains....

It is entirely possible that everyone is more of a pussy than me.

Besides, the black widows keep the neighbourhood children away.

Confirmed. As long as you're drinking (water) regularly, the heat isn't so bad. It's like an enormous sauna with a breeze. Once you get used to it, it's quite livable, especially when you have an air-conditioned, climate-controlled bubble to retreat into. Now, if you're not being watered, you're going to be fucking miserable.

Fuck that shit. Not because I'm a pussy, but because I hate heat. Come up here in January and we'll talk about it :)

Negative, I was in Chicago last January.  That shit is inhumane.  Phoenix is eight hundred times more awesome in July than Chicago is in January.  Maybe if I had hair like Cousin It, I'd come up, but I don't.  In Phoenix, I can drink some water and stand under a tree, but up north you can't really do anything to stave off death other than stay inside your bunker until the spring thaw.

...because you're a pussy :P

Some of us are genetically inclined for the cold. And having a shaggy mane doesn't hurt. But it's mostly genetics and conditioning. Viking blood.

Blame the Viking! (http://www.difm.net/cnc/audio/vikingsamp.mp3)

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Hehe, you are taking this pretty personally!  I'm a Scot by descent, so there must be some other explanation.  Cherokee blood maybe.  Seriously, I did spend a lot of time walking around Chicago in 8 degree weather, but on a comfort-level basis that was much worse than Phoenix.

Actually I am 100% sure that there is also an acclimation per person.  I am fairly acclimated toward the heat, but not nearly as much as I was when younger, growing up in south Alabama without air conditioning.  When I visit my parents these days, I keep my ass inside as much as possible otherwise I'm liable to drown in the sweat rolling off my head.  The Sonoran Desert is easy-mode compared to where I grew up, if you keep water on you.

The trick is to acclimate without dying.

I agree with Yegolev on this one.  I have russian ancestry and grew up in Pittsburgh, which gets pretty cold in the winter.  And Phoenix has the best climate of anywhere I've ever lived.

Phoenix in July > Buffalo in January

Lived in both places, albeit in Buffalo for a very short duration.

Stay out of the sun from the hours of 10p-6p. Stay in the shade, cool drinks, all is good. And when the monsoon season kicks in, which typically extends 2nd week of July - 2nd week of September, give or take a week or two, and possible splotches in betwixt, you can watch groovy electrifying lightning storms from your porch as you consume chilled frothy beverages and smoke cigars (or $OtherDesiredSmokableOrChewableElement).

Oh, yeah, I got to see a storm on the horizon while driving around lost in the evening.  It was neat-o.

It's because it's so dry.  When I lived in New Mexico, 110 wasn't nearly as nasty as a humid 85 in PA or NJ.  I used to also love seeing weather from a distance, too.  I also really enjoyed the night sky.  It feels like the stars are all around you.

My band acclimated by two to eight mile hikes in subzero temperatures and by jumping into snowbanks naked in the morning. I dunno, I guess I sought out the cold enough so that it doesn't bother me. You can always throw on another layer, but the heat traps you inside with a/c. Driving in the snow hasn't ever really been a problem for me, either, and that's a big part of it for a lot of people.

My favorite conditions when I was a kid was a subzero blowing windstorm with lots of snow. I should take up skiing.

On that Bodog music show (which sucks btw), they had two bands standing in the cold. One band was just kind of hanging out and the other was all red-faced, shivering and blowing into their hands. It was hilarious and reminded me of this thread ;)

You haven't experienced cold until you've been in Winnipeg in February.

I really enjoyed the climate in Mexico when i was living there summers when I was young. The climate was nice and the beach was nearby, and the food owns. And the GIRLS.....The  girls..... :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :inluv:

Does January in Edmonton count?

That would be somewhat close, but even we refer to it as Winterpeg.

Plus at least Edmonton has a big mall to hide in.

It sorta counts and as the Alberta representative on these boards I apologize that you had to go to Edmonton. Edmonton sucks. Edmonton is a place where sweat pants and dress shoes is dressing up for a night out.

Mexico is huge.  Were you west coast or gulf side?