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I haven't gotten much feedback regarding what time is good for everyone, and the responses I did get skewed early, so here's the plan for dinner tomorrow night for my birthday:

I'll be at Shagga (Ethiopian Restaurant), 6040 Baltimore Ave (US 1), Hyattsville, MD 20781, by 6:30 tomorrow evening -- Thursday 21 February, hoping to see whichever of my friends and kin can make it out there to join me. My current plan (pending more who-can-show-up-when news) is to hang out there for a few hours or until everybody else who's there has to leave.

Let me know if you need a ride from Metro. Or if you have some idea what time you might be able to show up. At this point I don't know whether it'll be a slowly gathering crowd, or a quiet birthday dinner with a few friends at one table. (I'm fine with either, but there are a lot of folks I'd really like to see.)

There's a little more information about the restaurant in my earlier announcement -- Shagga closes at ten on Thursdays, so the evening there can't run too terribly late.

I hope to see a bunch of you there!

"Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. ... Hope is the bedrock of this nation -- the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us. By all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is -- who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. Together, ordinary people can do extraordinary things." -- Barack Obama

Just before a party seems like a good time to mention this ... If anybody has an old USB printer gathering dust that they'd like to get out of their way, I still have no working printer at Mom's house that can talk to her iMac. (I do have one more parallel-port printer than I used to, but neither of the Macs has that connector.)