Welcome to FT! Yes, as others have said, sometimes people do have to cancel or change plans (but that happens in the non-FT world as well). If you want to meet up with some of us, just keep checking this board, or when you know you'll be in a certain city--post it. Something simple like "I will be in Chicago, London, Hong Kong, Katmandu.... etc this Sunday 7/11th. If anyone wants to get together, let me know. Either you'll get a personal reply via your e mail or the internal msg system or they will post back on FT.