Again! It's the end of July, and you know that means a


PARTY  BBQ  PARTY  BBQ  PARTY  BBQ 

at the home of Mike Ward and Karen Schaffer 

Saturday, July 27, 2013 
4:00 pm onwards 

1181 Martin Ave ,
            San Jose
 CA 95126 
(408) 298-3269 

Our house is one hundred and three years old this year! We are
          much younger,
          though monotonically approaching convergence. This year is the
          twentieth
          anniversary of Karen's emigration from Minnesota 
          and the thirtieth anniversary of Mike's emigration from
 Sunnyvale .
          We have pictures of the
 Minnesota trip, and we
          are monotonically younger in them.

Our back yard has not changed this year. Well, perhaps the
          plants have grown;
          it was a good year for plant growth. The archaeological site
          is still open, but
          will be closed up shortly for the benefit of a future
          generation of archaeologists.
          The wood-chip base is still base, though older. Come and see
          it for yourselves.

Bring:  barbecueable food (your main course) and potluck stuff to share; wine; 
beer (especially unusual ones no one has ever heard of); friends who can talk 
intelligently (especially unusual ones, though it's OK if we've heard of them)

Bring Not: dogs, cats, chickens, bullfrogs, aspirated vireos,
          unaspirated vimeos,
          or one-headed sheep. (However, service animals of these types
          are always
          welcome.) Do not bring theories of existence, existence
          theorems, existence
          proofs, theories of proof, proofs of theories, or proofs of
          existence. We have
          a bbq, and therefore we eat; theories of lunch or dinner are
          therefore always
          acceptable, though you may get arguments about the details, or
          perhaps the
          appetizers.

Last year we had a lot of complaints about the hierarchy,
          specifically about
          their absence. So, this year, we're going back to molecular
          monolayers, if we
          can just get those chickens small enough. Consider both
          compressive and
          filtration techniques, and remember that Safety is
          All-Important. 

Enjoy:  food, drink, conversation, stuff other people brought
          to share 

We supply: 
     * beer (many different kinds), soft drinks (ditto),
          and fizzy waters 
     * cups, plates, forks, knives, spoons; maybe a fnoorn
          or a splate
     * some vegetables, plenty snacks, and other eatable
          things 
     * a house of many rooms; one will have a few items you
          can take home 
     * more plants than you can shake a stick at (if for
          some reason) 
     * a highly attractive view of many, many plants
     * a gas grill, with gas and gas accessories; a
          charcoal grill, etc. 

When: 
     * 4:00 pm and onwards, Saturday 27 July 2013 
     * ignition of the gas grill is at 5:15 
     * cooking starts 5:30-6:00 -- vegetarian on gas-grill
          first 
     * everybody leaves at some point or another 

Directions: Find highway 101, 280, or 880/17. From 880/17,
          take The Alameda
          exit toward San Jose .
          About a mile and a half along, The Alameda bends off to the
          left, and Race
              St. and
 Martin Ave. come in
          from the right. A modern building in the style of Deco (really
          Depression
          Moderne), labeled "
 Hanchett
 Park " on its clock
          tower, sits at this corner. Freebird Burritos in the round
          corner location seems
          to have many customers. I have no idea why. 

Look for the street with the tall, really tall, palm trees;
          that's Martin
              Ave. If you
          get to the HP Pavilion you have gone too far. 

Make a sharp right at the
 Hanchett
 Park building. Go
          down
          the street with the tall, really tall, palm trees. You are now
          almost certainly
          traveling on Martin Ave. Look in first block. Look on right
          side. Look for the
          third house, a white house with a red-orange tile roof. Look
          for house numbers 1181
          next to the door. Look and Find. 

The number is on the curb in faded black and white (though
          parked cars will
          obscure it) and on the house in brass. There are roses and
          salvias and many
          other things in terraces along the sidewalk, and flowers and
          highly
          enthusiastic plants of every description now dwell where grass
          once tried to
          grow. The Gazebo is here, sitting on a wild low-maintenance
          (aka dried)
          meadowland; paced off formally by stepping-stones, it looks
          past a Succulent 
            Garden .
          It does not decry Succulents; it
          just can't change its orientation very easily. 

If you come after dark, look for the spotlights on the entry
          steps, and some
          eerily glowing LED standlights lining the walkway to the house
          and illuminating
          important loci in the meadowland. 

 > From 101: Take 101 south to 880; take the
 Santa Cruz 
          exit onto 880 and watch for The
          Alameda exit. Go toward
 San Jose . 

 > From 280: Take 280 to 880/17; take the
 Oakland 
          exit onto 880/17 and watch for The
          Alameda exit. Go toward
 San Jose . 

 > From Oakland ,
 Berkeley ,
          etc.: Get on 880 and go south until
          you reach a part of the highway that reduces to a known
          solution. 

 > From Santa Cruz ; south
          of San Jose ;
          divers other
          places: Use a large-area Map and follow the Main Traffic
          Highways until the
          above enters your Local Universe. Have I mentioned GPS yet? 

Google and Yahoo and those some other guys all have online map
          services that
          can direct you here with a specialized map. Siri can help, if
          she's in a good
          mood; or one of her competition, if you have it in your
          pocket. If you are
          truly lost you can always call the number given above. 

Parking can be dicey; there's plenty of on-street parking, but
          you may wind up
          a few hundred feet away. Mobility-impaired can park in our
          driveway. 

We are accessible by other modes of transportation! Do you
          want me to define a
          word again? I still can't believe I actually wrote all that
          stuff about
          serendipity last year. This year the word that's on everyone's
          lips is
          "hyperplasticity." Very few English words include an explicit
          address
          to the recipient in the beginning of the word itself, but this
          is one of them, beginning
          as it does with the salutation, "Hy." If your name is not Hy,
          you can
          change it, considering as one possibility the name "Henry,"
          often
          abbreviated Hy, or nicked as Harry. Also, you could be Harold
          or even Harald,
          and that's several choices right there. If none of these feel
          appropriate, consider
          a nickname of the old Canadien "dit" variety, such as "Malcom
          Lucrose dit Hy." You could still use your old stationery,
          merely
          rubber-stamping in the new nomen. Hy is much faster to type
          than Henry,
          certainly a factor to consider when you realize the word is
          calling you a
          "perp" of some kind, probably involving a "las," which might
          be a short lass or a long set of e.g. Vegas. It's you, Harry,
          with that teenager
          in your old Chevy hotrod, driving through "ti city,"
          struggling no
          doubt with your GPS and trying to avoid the law. You probably
          got thrown out of
          Liberty 
            City ,
          and we'd prefer you not come here
          with your beat-up cars and your doubtful friends. Wait, that
          you's not you, the
          recipient of this invitation, but another you entirely! You,
          yes you; please
          come.

Next year we'll have a grammar lesson about the Grocer's's
          Apo'strophe.

Where was I? GPS says
 1181 Martin Ave. The
          Caltrain/Amtrak ["Diridon"] station
          in San Jose is a 15-minute
          walk along The
          Alameda (walk in the direction away from downtown
 San Jose ,
          to get to our house; reverse the
          process when you leave). The Alameda 
          is a major
          bus route with frequent service, so you can take the bus from
          the train
          station, or from elsewhere in the South 
          Bay or
 Peninsula .
          OR: Fly in to Mineta 
            S.
 J. International 
            Airport ,
          and we are a short cab-ride (or a rather long walk) away. And
          then there's
          BART-and-a-bus (get info before you do it). With all that, we
          expect you'll be
          here soon. Karen and Mike, on the other hand, are already
          here, and have been for
          years and years, and are beginning to think we need to send
          the full invitation
          out earlier. 

Mike and Karen 
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