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To everyone in LA or willing to travel:

I had such a fun time at last month’s dinner that I am organizing another one for next Saturday, October 27 at 7 PM.

We will meet at a delicious restaurant in the 90006 zip code with convenient access to the 10, 101, 5, and 110. (Average entree, approximately $12.) Tahsir and I will both be there, but you’ll probably learn more from the other attendees than you will from us. There won’t be any formal teaching, just chatting and socializing. We’re going Dutch on dinner, and the restaurant is good at splitting checks.

Contact me by email if you want to join us, and I’ll give you the name and address of the restaurant. This way I can give them a head’s up of our party’s size.

I hope to see many of last month’s attendees, Chicago Seminars friends, and new faces. Looking at my travel schedule, this will probably be the last Meet Up of 2012 in Los Angeles that I schedule.

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