Looks like Lauri is set for her birthday dinner and all of us are set for Latitudes on Oct.3. After we're all on the ship, somebody really ought to tell them that we're all together so they'll put us all on the same side of the room. That would be good so we can all be closer together, but also so we don't bother the other people in the restaurant as much. It's possible we'll get kind of loud . Maybe we should ask our fearless leader, Ngaire, to do that -- she's probably got the most "persuasive power".