It appears it would be better to have the members of slinging.org meet on 9/22 as previously planned and run the event for the boys the following week on 9/29.  I kinda got the impression we'd rather interact with each other and we locals will do the newby thing the week after.  If any can stay over or come back for the following week then great otherwise I think we are more interested in comparing notes, styles, et.al. with each other.  Hopefully we can get Tint to recommit to coming with the change.  As for me... well they say indecision is the key to flexibility.
Geo.