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News June 2009 We've played every week with plenty of people so far this year; drop by any Saturday at 2:15, no head counts!  This freaks out a few people who are used to them, and in response I give the following three reasons: 1. We always have enough people (we've had about 12-16 every week this year, and played every week except one last year; there's just no need), 2. Regular games simply attract more people.  But still email me to jump on our list anyway, for a weekly reminder and to be notified when we start or stop our seasons! Always check the weather every Saturday morning right before you come, as the last minute forcast is always the most accurate.  When in doubt whether it miiiiight sorrrta-ish rain and you're kiiiinda wonderin' who might stay home because they're wonderin' whether you might stay home, just show up!  There'll always be a few people tossing hoping for the best and quite often the gods will smile, the weather will turn out fine, and we'll have a perfectly normal game.  Rage against the "Everybody Else is Wonderin' if Everybody Else is Going" paradox!  Also, take into account the difference between a 100% chance of a heavy steady downpour, and a 100% chance of scattered thunderstorms, the latter of which people will usually show up for, because t-storms often flick off like a switch after awhile and leave clear weather. Please bring a LIGHT and DARK shirt, chess piece, and alter-ego. Please pick up your trash, thanks. Please bring any cones or heavy objects (pianos, bulldozers) you have, we want to try doing the field diagonal to maximize size. PLEEEEEASE TRY TO SHOW UP ON TIME -- 2:15 PM!!!  We have this horrible habbit of showing up later and later past whatever time we set, and if I move the time down, we just show up even later.  A little algorithmic logic will show that as this continues, we'd be playing at midnight if I kept shifting the time down, at which point "daylight" will have quite a different meaning.  This doesn't just make our game later, it LOSES us players, because new people show up on time or even early (imagine that) and go away because there aren't a bunch of people on the field, or drive by and don't see anyone.  I'm the one with severe ADHD, folks, only 5% of the rest of you have that excuse, and if I can get there on time at least half of the time, then about 97.5% of us should be on the field at 2:15 on any given Saturday=). There is a very vague and probably baseless rumor going around that Toodles the Frisbee Canary FAKED HIS OWN DEATH.  As if the rumor that his death was actually a suicide wasn't hard enough for those of us who went through six months of therapy after his death last year, this is worse.  I promise you I'll look into the source of this insulting rumor and find out who's trying to start this shit! Description/Time/Date We're a group of really super friendly frisbee players, utterly all skill levels, from age 1 to 99, who've been playing in Lexington, MA, for 12 years (except the 1 to 12 year olds).  We welcome everyone.  We play every week Saturdays 2:15 PM-ish, roughly April to September, at Hastings Park (which is bordered by Mass Ave, Hastings Rd, Lincoln St, and Worthen; this is not the Lexington Green) Contact for Squish (info, mailing list):  <u/know/who> @ <u/know/where> dot <you/know/what> .. Ways to get here .. View map .. 1. Directions from Route 95/128 (In either direction): Take 95/128 to Exit 31A [Route 4 and 225-Lexington]. Continue straight off the ramp. Continue straight through three traffic lights. At the fourth light, turn right onto Worthen Rd. (there will be a Starbucks and Walgreens on your right). Continue straight on Worthen through one traffic light. Take first RIGHT onto Lincoln St. after traffic light. Hastings Field with the bandstand is on your right. Free/easy parking on the left at John P Chase Skating Facility. The field is also along MASS AVE, which you can come from as well. The field is near Lexington High, across the street from the Town Pool.  Extremely occasionally we may play at the track field or Lincoln field down the street. .. 2. For an explorable satellite map, check out ultimap.org, this is a cool site with a global listing of frisbee groups. Just go to Massachusetts, and you'll see a colorful frisbee icon over Lexington. Click on it, then just zoom in a lot until you see Hastings Field with the gray bandstand. .. 3. Mapquest.com: Get directions for 8 Hastings Rd, Lexington, MA, and also check the Lincoln park down the road from this address if you're late; Lincoln is perpindicular to the courts and pool, a bit down on your left.  View map. .. Donations We gladly accept donations. For $100 donation (our bronze level), we can buy 10 new discs (even though we only use one). For $1000 donation (our silver level), we can be lazy and hire a ballboy to retrieve the disc when it goes too far, or to dive into street traffic to save a disc that's about to get run over.  For $500,000 (gold level) we can buy our own totally flat, un-hilly, properly marked, long, shaded, and gazebo-less field.