<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"> <div class="WordSection1"> Hi ACCRSers! I hope all are well sheltering and that you are doing great modeling work while isolated. I wanted to remind you of three things:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">We will have our Friday Night Meetup on Zoom again this week, You can join with a PC and use your phone for audio. Or use you tablet or mobile device using the Zoom app. I put the details below in this message and will send again on Friday. If you would like to share some modeling or your home layout, let me know is you need help. I will start a list of meetup topics in groups.io. If we have some pre-planned activities, I will put out an agenda.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">If you have not done so, please go to <a href="http://www.groups.io">www.groups.io</a> and join using your email address. Once you have a groups.io account, you can join the ACCRS group, be approved as an ACCRS member and be part of a larger conversation as we have topics, calendar, messaging, etc. I will review how to do it on Friday on our meetup. We have 16 groups.io members so far. If we can get all of us on groups it will be much easier to communicate. For example, the topic to discuss areas of interest to cove on Fridays is much easier covered in a topic stream in groups.io instead of here as a bunch of emails.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:#333333;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white"> There is going to be an online NMRA Virtual Facebook Convention starting at 4 PM PDT this Friday to 5:00 PM PDT Saturday, 4/24-25 – You must be a Facebook Member and Join <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/nmragroup/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/nmragroup/</a> Joining the group requires approval, so do it ahead of time. There are 24 individual 1 hour sessions, see the session list attached from Facebook. There are two sessions during our Friday Meetup, "Intro to Weathering" at 7 PM and a home layout virtual tour (one from the NMRA convention I believe) at 8 PM. I am not sure if one of us can join that and share the screen with the group in our meetup. Let me know if that is of interest, I am checking out how you join a Facebook live event to see if I can do that and run the Zoom screen share to the group. They will also be recorded so we can watch some at a later time. That may be actually be better. I am very interested in the “Is Model railroading Art” session, but 7 AM Sunday morning could be a challenge. <o:p></o:p></li></ul> <img border="0" width="1280" height="721" style="width:13.3333in;height:7.5104in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D618FA.8E6606B0"><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Phil Edholm<o:p></o:p> Office 925-264-9420<o:p></o:p> Mobile 408-832-5618<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>