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I got their weekly email update, reminding me that tomorrow is the LEGO night. I am doubtful to make it this week but definitely encourage folks to swing by if you’re able (can be informal participants / do some recon, for now…)
I’d love to participate, but I can’t really figure out what all y’all are talking about. Will there be a theme for the build? Is it be a town? a mosaic? Will it be anything goes as long as you use a specific color? Will an entire section include only red parts? These are the things that keep me up at night.
Trying times, to be sure. At least your biggest worries have to do with LEGO displays instead of problems in the world outside of LEGO. So, you got that goin’ for ya… which is nice!
The modularity and room for continuing to grow over time make this a no-brainer! (how many Pittsburgh Potties can we build…?!?)
Interested, in theory. Possibly ahtta tahn in April, depending on the date.
Eleventh Hour is a rill chill spot though, and has solid brews, so I’m all for us supporting this idea!
I assumed that, like everything that goes on a spice rack, turmeric is super duper cheap, and that we wouldn’t need much,
It gets cheaper if you buy in bulk! You’re much better off with one person buying a larger qty then everyone handing them a few bucks, as opposed to everyone buying a smaller qty on their own.
Penzey’s is my turmeric hookup (among other spices): https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/turmeric/c-24/p-1177/pd-s – six 1/2-cup jars works out to $41.70, but one 3-cup bag is only $19.49!!! (note: I have no idea how much yinz will need. And while I wish I could come find out in person, alas, being a Responsible Adult / Parent / Homeowner is going to have to take precedence for me this weekend…)
The spice must flow!
If there aren’t curves in there, I don’t want it.
(Also, what’s the vibe for the trains? “ancient castle meets present day / futuristic repopulation…?)
I would totally pay $50 for life size models of Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps!
Not sure I’ll get to NC any time soon, unfortunately…
The yellow, orange (yes it was originally orange) and blue hypercycloids
HypOcycloids, Greg…
…hyper-hypo-cycloids.
Real things sometimes cost less than the LEGO version.
This looks like a case of “if we list it as free, people won’t be committed; if we list it for a ‘steal’ of a price, we’ll only get serious inquiries.”
Moving a baby grand is no joke… LEGO versions (depending on scale) are way easier. Just don’t drop them in a snowy parking lot like Doug’s castle, circa January 2014…
https://www.facebook.com/reel/597986172660592
We’re doing this at CSC Locomotion Weekend and Home & Garden, right?!?
(yeah, this one’s probably been shared before, but come on. Steel City LUG: Tokyo Drift!)
Definitely interested in that Wolf/pack fig, possibly several if you end up with extras! Some other good ones for sure, but I’ll sleep on whether I’d want a full set. Trying to spend less money these days. 😉
Is the cockatiel with the Pirate Quartermaster a new animal, or am I just out of the loop?
Yeah, I suspected it was inadvertently made live before it was intended to be, but that The Brick Fan thought it was fair game since it was revealed on LEGO.com, intentionally or not.
The contest is: guess how many replacement parts I will be asking Lego for.
Eleventeen. Wait, no… Thirty-Twelve!
teleport to Spartanburg SC.
I might know a guy (well I do know a guy, but I don’t know how close he is to Spartanburg, other than “within the same state”…)
how dare you. i’m at work. i can’t be crying right now.
The Winter Soldier strikes again!
Also, I missed the Coco build somehow, that’s fantastic!! Such a fun / heart-string-pulling movie.
My serious response echoes the above. While I fully agree that we as a club should do what we can to avoid uncomfortable situations, unless the bugs in question are dangerous (i.e. black widows or something else poisonous), logic would say that as long as reasonable courteous efforts are made to clean the space prior to meetings, that should be sufficient.
After all, the LUG isn’t paying rent to store our inventory in Josh’s personal home – he’s donating the storage space and has done so for 10+ years at this point. If the LUG were a paying customer, perhaps a different standard would be expected – but even then, what “self-storage” locations wouldn’t have a few bugs from time to time?
Without doing any actual accounting for the volume of our inventory, I’d estimate very loosely that we’d need around a 10×10′ storage unit to house the goods. That likely wouldn’t be in a nice, easily-accessed arrangement – it might just be crammed into the storage unit and require labor any time we wanted to get at the various drawers and bins. A very quick search of the nearest self-storage place to me indicates that a 10×10 unit these days runs well over $100/month. So, we’d easily be spending $1000 or significantly more per year to store the goods if not for the donation of Josh’s basement space (or another generous space-donor / other creative ideas for cheap or free storage.)
That’s a financial perspective, in the spirit of the recent thread discussing LUG sustainability with regards to cup credits and reimbursing for expenses related to attending conventions (https://www.steelcitylug.com/forum/topic/convention-policy-for-cup-credits/) – it’s not likely we’d be a viable organization today if we were spending $1000+ / year storing our LUG inventory over the past decade.
[Quick counterpoint to my own point: if we immediately distributed all received parts, rather than storing them indefinitely until redeemed, the storage issue would be limited to “stuff we built and/or equipment use repeatedly at various shows,” such as MILS train track plates, tables, stanchions, sneeze guards, etc., and that would reduce the required storage space and the need for it to be organized in a space where people could peruse bins for parts they need on a regular basis.]
So, to me, Josh has gone above and beyond with the use of his basement over the years, and his willingness to vacuum up any cobwebs, etc. before meetings more than satisfies my personal expectations.
All of that said, if members have phobias, we should do what we can collectively to minimize their exposure to triggers. Similar to the accessibility issue, which we’ve been addressing by hosting meetings (and transporting LUG inventory for redemption) to accessible locations. If reasonable efforts are made to minimize bugs and anyone still has issues being in the basement, perhaps the solution is for those parties to participate in redemption at times when we’re meeting & redeeming at the church near Josh’s house, or at other meetings, thereby avoiding the basement?
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You have the hottest toy of 1992?!?
Welcome to the club; look forward to meeting you!
Information for the meeting Ben mentioned can be found in this thread: https://www.steelcitylug.com/forum/topic/2024-q3-business-meeting-and-birthday-party/
The first key detail is that it’s Saturday Aug 31.
