Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:51:52 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Mark your calendars!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>"Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>> http://www.australia2010.org/
>
>"Barry L. Newton" <bnewton at ashcomp.com> wrote:
>> [Loooong, drawn out sigh.]  And how old will we be in 2010?
>
>"Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com> wrote:
>> Not too old to dive the Great Barrier Reef!
>
>And your daughter will be 15, old enough to get married in Maryland.
>
>The 2010 Worldcon is closer than the most recent Worldcons in Canada,
>San Francisco, Florida, or Boston.  WSFA will be hosting our tenth
>Capclave.  The new Wilson Bridge will have recently been finished.
>Metro to Dulles will be almost done.  Bush's second term will have
>ended the previous year.  The first total solar eclipse in this area
>since 1970 will still be seven years away.  At the end of the year,
>the new millennium will be one percent over.

And it'll be two years since Datclave II.

Datclave was first held in 1980, when WSFAn Don Pauley observed (in either =
1979  or 1978) there would be a 5th Friday in February (really, you can =
look it up).  The next 5th Friday in February will be in 2008.

mjw

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