I haven't gotten much feedback regarding what time is good for everyone, and the responses I did get skewed early, so here's the plan for dinner tomorrow night for my birthday:
I'll be at Shagga (Ethiopian Restaurant), 6040 Baltimore Ave (US 1), Hyattsville, MD 20781, by 6:30 tomorrow evening -- Thursday 21 February, hoping to see whichever of my friends and kin can make it out there to join me. My current plan (pending more who-can-show-up-when news) is to hang out there for a few hours or until everybody else who's there has to leave.
Let me know if you need a ride from Metro. Or if you have some idea what time you might be able to show up. At this point I don't know whether it'll be a slowly gathering crowd, or a quiet birthday dinner with a few friends at one table. (I'm fine with either, but there are a lot of folks I'd really like to see.)
There's a little more information about the restaurant in my earlier announcement -- Shagga closes at ten on Thursdays, so the evening there can't run too terribly late.
I hope to see a bunch of you there!