Update: I linked to this post in the sidebar under Meetups.
There’s an Ohio Meet-up in the works!
Planning for the long-awaited all-Ohio meet-up is underway. Columbus Queen and Ohio Mom are planning at a midday meeting in Columbus on Saturday, May 17. (Midday can be loosely thought of as lunchtime-ish)
Columbus Queen is looking at Plank’s Bier Garden at the corner of Whittier & South High Streets in German Village south of downtown.
It’s easy to find, offers drinks as well as food, and has a covered patio and decent-sized parking lot.
Ohio Jackals, please let us know if you’ll be able to join us. If too many of you have prior commitments for that day, we can consider an alternate date.
Hope to see our fellow Buckeyes there!
Please RSVP in the comments.
sab
I will be there. Spousal unit might come because he wants to drive.
ETA And a frist
John Sterling
Hey! I can make it! Got the time!
Suzanne
This sounds fun. Put me down as a solid maybe.
NeenerNeener
Is Plank’s the restaurant with the cream puffs the size of your head? I haven’t lived in Columbus since the early 90s but I still remember the cream puffs fondly.
Ohio Mom
@sab: I was hoping spousal would come!
After next Tuesday,’can I put you charge tracking down ad inviting Kay?
sab
@Ohio Mom: I don’t know how to contact Kay. If the front pagers help I would love to.
ETA I will try to contact her as a former frontpager, and if that fails ask the blogmaster for a better address.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
I’ll be there. Sounds like fun
Gloria DryGarden
@sab: i imagine Kay can be contacted on blue sky, possibly via mistermix. Or on his blog, where she writes. It was easy to give them my email so I could comment. Ther3 are options..
sab
I kind of don’t want spousal unit to come. He is a sweet guy but very argumentative on his opinions. We shriek at each other every night over trivia where we are basically on the same side. Normal people might be offput. Also too he has a very bad back and we often have to leave early because he is in such pain. Bitchy of me but if he came and we had to leave early I would be very very angry. Told him that. But he wants to come. He reads the blog but not the comments, so I don’t know if he qualifies as a lurker.
Gary K
Darn, darn, darn! I live in Mansfield and would love to come, but we’ll be over in PA for the weekend.
WaterGirl
@Ohio Mom: @sab: @Gloria DryGarden:
I sent Kay an email with a link to the post, letting her know that Ohio peeps are hoping she will join you.
sab
@WaterGirl: Thank you.
sab
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Yay! I wasn’t sure you were even real. A young jackal.
sab
This might be amazing. Ohio is a big state, the size of European countries. So meet-ups are hard because we are all many hours away from each other. Cleveland to Akron is almost an hour. Akron to Columbus is two hours. Akron to Cincinnati is a lot, well over three hours.
Go Ohioans!
Gin & Tonic
My daughter lived in German Village when she went to grad school at a large university in the area. Because of this, I know it’s a 14 hour drive, so I have to decline.
sab
@sab: He feels like and I agree that BJ is the other woman. People I talk to that he doesn’t know about. But him not knowing about is his choice. Everything BJ is online. Worried what he thought was okay might not be. I know him and this is a stupid concern, but as a long time wife one never knows
ETA Just saying he wants to come but I have my doubts. I always have doubts and they never pan out, Family laughs at me.
Baud
@sab:
I’ve always wanted to be part of a manage-a-trois.
Ohio Mom
@sab I don’t think we’ve set a start time yet but come after the meet-up has been in swing for an hour. That way, if you do have to leave early, you’ve been there at the meet-up’s high point.
And I wouldn’t worry about a contrary spouse, none of us are exactly shrinking violets.
Ohio Mom
@John Sterling: I didn’t know you lived in Ohio — some juicers mention their whereabouts often, but if you have, I missed that thread. So which part of Ohio do you call home?
Ohio Mom
@Gary K: Rats!
Ohio Mom
@Suzanne: You are down as a maybe. At first I thought, isn’t Pittsburgh a far drive but I checked the map and it isn’t that much further from Columbus than Akron is.
Ohio Mom
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I’m going to finally get to meet you!
Percysowner
@NeenerNeener:
Sadly no, that’s Schmidts.
It looks like I can make it on that day, so count me in.
Baud
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I hope all the old ladies pinching your cheeks doesn’t sour you on BJ.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I hope that making a comment like that doesn’t sour BJ on you! :-)
Baud
@WaterGirl: In all candor, that should have happened a long time ago.
Omnes Omnibus
Planks is a great venue. I used live just a bit south of there. On the corner of Deshler and High.
Ruckus
Have been to 3 or 4 BJ get togethers over the years and if you haven’t they are fun and different.
Always pick a place that can hold at least a few people and which will let you stay for a bit of time because they are never short time events. And they are fun because you get to see the faces behind the names at the top/front of a comment. And vocal is different than typing. HAVE FUN
And Ohio is a hoot, I worked in Columbus and lived in Gahanna for a decade a while ago.
sab
This meet-up sounds like it will be so much fun.
Juju
@WaterGirl: I think forces beyond his control makes him prone to comments like that one.
Anyway
@Baud: I think he’ll bask in all the attention =)
HinTN
Somewhere there’s a proof of life from the Pescadero meet-up. It did happen. It was fun.
Ohio farmer
I rarely comment but have been a lurker for close to 20 years…. I would love to join in…..coming from Knox county
storm777
I am a long time lurker and rare commentor. I will seriously think about this, it is a 2.5 hour drive for me, but I do want to meet up with like-minded folks. Thanks!
WaterGirl
@: Welcome!!
WaterGirl
@Juju: Ha!
WaterGirl
@storm777: Wow, two lurkers commenting in one post.
Welcome to you, too!
storm777
@WaterGirl: Thank you!
Ohio farmer
I have a feeling that every time I actually comment, which is every few years, I use a different nym…… google autofilled my name and I hit post without thinking!
columbusqueen
Any chance we could lure our Blogfather over? He’s Ohio-adjacent, after all.
columbusqueen
If anyone needs detailed directions, let me know. Google Maps hopefully will have a decent route available.
columbusqueen
@Ohio farmer: Super! My brother lives there.
WaterGirl
@Ohio farmer: I can fix that if you tell me what to change it too.
columbusqueen
@Ruckus: We are a hoot. Years ago, Bootsy Collins said in an interview, “You gots to be funky if you’re from Ohio.”
Ohio farmer
It’s Duane again…. I think Ohio farmer is one I have used here…
and seriously I love everyone around here…. This has been my go to read for ages
WaterGirl
@Ohio farmer: Okay, I have your nym cleaned up in the original comment and in the replies.
Welcome again, with the new nym. :-)
I had to approve that comment, so either that isn’t the nym you have used, or you listed a different email address, or it’s a new device that you’ve never commented from before.
WaterGirl
I linked to this post in the sidebar under Meetups.
Ohio farmer
@WaterGirl: who knows…. Abshokie could have been used or just Duane….
i have been hoping for an Ohio meetup for years!
thanks for the help
WaterGirl
@Ohio farmer: Happy to help, hope you make it to the meetup.
cintibud
Possibly, a bit of a drive from Cincy, not sure of our plans yet. Will keep an eye on this
Gary K
Although I can’t make it, I would love to know whether some of you live in my extended neighborhood. I see, e.g., that Ohio farmer is from a neighboring county. So how do we figure out our mutual locations without posting that information here in the comments?
Ohio Mom
@Ohio farmer:
@storm777: Welcome out of lurkerhhod, looking forward to seeing the both of you IRL.
Ohio Mom
@cintibud: It’s only about a two hour drive — haven’t seen you since that Cincinnati meet-up years ago.
Ohio farmer
@Gary K: you posting Mansfield is why I figured I should share my Knox county location
Gary K
Hey Buckeyes, I won’t post my e-mail address here, but if you want to get in touch look for Gary K the math professor at the Mansfield campus of our glorious flagship university, and send a message to me there. I’ll write back from the address I use for personal stuff.
sab
@Ohio farmer: I am in Akron. My BIL is from Knox County.
sab
@Percysowner: Yay.
SunFlower
Long-time lurker from SW Ohio here…never commentor, so this is my first! I feel like I know all of you from reading this blog every day for years, and I truly appreciate having a space where so many opinions and so much information is shared. I would love to join the meet up.
WaterGirl
@SunFlower: Welcome!!
Three of you guys coming to the meetup, that’s awesome.
WaterGirl
I heard back from Kay this morning. She will be in NY that weekend visiting with her daughter, so Kay won’t be able to attend the meetup.
SuzieC
Since I live in Columbus, I’ll attend!
SunFlower
@WaterGirl:
Thanks! I’m excited to meet everyone…I’m more of an introvert, but these days I feel it’s important to get to know like-minded people.
John Sterling
@Ohio Mom: Columbus area! Sorry, been lurking for ages, but only recently signed on.
John Sterling
@Ohio Mom: It’s a three hour drive from Pittsburgh to Columbus.
The Red Pen
Dang. I’ll be in Columbus on the 24th.
Manyakitty
I’m a solid maybe. Hope I’m not too late
Eunicecycle
Darn just read about this in an active thread so went looking. I NEVER have anything to do on Saturdays but that day is a graduation party for a great nephew AND it’s my SIL’s birthday. I’m considering just sending my husband to the grad party (it’s at noon of course!). So maybe?