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Meetups and social events

Quinerly In New Mexico – Meetups

by Cheryl Rofer|  January 22, 20209:29 am| 12 Comments

This post is in: Meetups and social events, Readership Capture

Green balloons

Quinerly has landed in Las Vegas, NM, for a train ride. She’ll be in Santa Fe for a month – January 27 to February 27 – and we should have a meetup while she’s here. She particularly likes La Boca restaurant, so let’s start with that as the venue and, arbitrarily, the week of February 3. La Boca is open for lunch and dinner seven days a week.

With the new site, we have a new option. Instead of one or a few posts getting buried, you can always see what’s happening with the meetup by clicking on “Balloon Juice Meetups” under “Calling All Jackals.” The meetup information will have a link to this post, where you can comment. The Seattle meetup post is set up already, so you can see there how it works.

Also, if you’d like to meetup with Quinerly in one of her other New Mexico destinations,

  • Gallup – February 27 to March 1
  • Farmington – March 1 to 7

comment here, and we’ll (that is, WaterGirl will) put the information in the appropriate meetup pages.

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Meet-Up Proposal in Seattle (with Bonus GOTV Action!)

by Anne Laurie|  January 20, 20207:59 pm| 42 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Meetups and social events

Message from commentor (& experienced meet-up planner!) Casey L:

H.E. Wolf and I would like to propose a Seattle meetup, but more of a working meetup than a social one. We want to get together with a smallish group of Seattle area jackals and do postcards for the “Postcards to Voters” political action group.

I’m pretty sure you’re familiar with them (I first heard about them on BJ) but in case not: People sign up online with the group, who then send them lists of voters in targeted cities, along with the wording to be used on the postcards. The postcards can be downloaded from the P-2-V site, or people can buy and use their own, within stated guidelines.

H E Wolf and I want to host a meetup during which we would explain the process, distribute and complete a small batch of cards, and also send people home with “starter kits” (5 postcards and postage) for them to complete and mail on their own. (We will pay for the cards and postage.)

The proposed dates are over President’s Day weekend: Sunday the 16th or Monday the 17th, at 12:30. The proposed location is Elliot Bay Brewery on Lake City Way in North Seattle (parking is free, a major consideration).

If you’re interested, leave a comment below, or send me a message via the ‘Contact Us’ link & I’ll forward it.

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Quinerly In New Mexico

by Cheryl Rofer|  January 17, 20208:06 am| 7 Comments

This post is in: Meetups and social events, Readership Capture

Valued commenter Quinerly will soon be on the road again, and she’d love to meet Juicers during her travels. Here’s her schedule:

  • 1/27 Arrive Santa Fe 1/27
  • 2/27 Arrive Gallup
  • 3/1 Arrive Farmington
  • 3/8 Leave Farmington

She also plans short trips to Las Vegas (NM), Albuquerque, Abiquiu, Taos, Bosque del Apache (and the Owl Bar in San Antonio), Los Alamos, Corrales, Moriarty, Belen, and Mountainair.

If you’re interested in meeting her at any of these times, reply in the comments or email me at “Contact us.”

We will probably do a meetup when she is in Santa Fe. You can also suggest dates in the comments. I’ll do another post when we get closer to the time.

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Seattle Meet Up Proof of Life: The Up Meeters!

by Adam L Silverman|  August 15, 20199:39 pm| 63 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Meetups and social events, Open Threads

Both CaseyL and OpieJeanne sent me after action reports and pictures from last night’s Seattle Meet Up.

CaseyL:

What a great gathering!  HinTN is so delightful, we should get him to move here to the PNW so we can see him more frequently.  We also had two new people:  EthylEster and Jonathan (aka informationdriveway, though he comments, when he does, under his RL name).  And of course the Seattle BJ regulars:  me (CaseyL), OpieJean and Mr. OpieJean, ThalactosMaritimus (whose husband stayed home because the Writing Muse was with him), DanB, and BeautifulPlumage.
We ate and drank our way through the Saffron Grill, where the food is wonderful and so are the staff.
Of course there are pictures.  They’re glare-y because of light coming in through the window, so sorry; and one is blurry because our waitperson studied at the John G. Cole School of Photography.  And I took one of our GoH, HinTN, that is a hoot because he looks like “I Am Not Amused” – which is not at all true; he had a blast (we all did).
Thank you Adam, for alerting us to organize this shindig, and for posting this report on the festivities.
I should also mention that Yutsano, who could not attend in person, called in via cell.  We had him on speaker, and I held up the phone so everyone could say Hi, but we couldn’t really hear him, so I chatted with him for a bit and then held up the phone so we could all say goodbye.
CaseyL
(Harry HnTN, Guest of Honor, Looking Stern.  Self explanatory.)
(The Whole Gang:  From left: Jonathan, BeautifulPlumage, ThalarctosMaritimus, CaseyL, HinTN, OpieJean, Mr. OpieJean, Dan B, EthylEster.)
(Also Whole Gang Tho Blurrier: From left: HinTN, OpieJean, Mr. OpieJean, Dan B, EthylEster, Jonathan, Beautiful Plumage, ThalarctosMaritimus, CaseyL)
(Subset of Whole Gang: DanB, EthylEster, HinTN)
OpieJeanne:
I got a couple of photos at the meetup last night. The Saffron Grill is a nice restaurant with an Indian, Mediterranean, and “American” menu. I only glanced at the American choices and went for the Tandoori prawns. Everything was delicious and the company was great.
(The first one is Casey L. standing and the guest of honor, HinTN.)
(The second photo is Beautiful Plumage on the left and Thalarctos Maritimus on the right, but she’s not really a polar bear.)
opiejeanne
Open thread!

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Seattle Meet Up Update: The Meet Upening!

by Adam L Silverman|  August 13, 201910:08 pm| 20 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Events, Meetups and social events, Open Threads

Despite the complete failure of the staff here at Balloon Juice Actual to get the initial post about a potential Seattle meet up posted in a timely manner, commenter CaseyL has reached out, informed me that a meet up will occur tomorrow night, and provided the details:

We managed to come up with a plan for tomorrow’s meetup, and would appreciate it much if you could do a post tonight so that more of the Seattle area BJers hear about it:

Reservation is at:
Saffron Grill
2132 N Northgate Way, Seattle, WA 98133
At 6:30
There is a FREE parking lot
For 8 people (I will call them and change it to 10)
Under the name: Casey.

Thanks much!

–CaseyL

Open thread!

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August 14th Seattle Meet Up!!!!!

by Adam L Silverman|  August 13, 201911:22 am| 61 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Meetups and social events, Open Threads

Apparently this slip past everyone that was asked to put up a 14 August Seattle Meet Up post. I apologize to HinTN, OpieJeanne, and the other folks interested.

HinTN is going to be in Seattle this week and would like to arrange a now, because we here at Ballon Juice Actual dropped the ball, last minute meet up for tomorrow night. So if you’re interested, please sound off in the comments and start working out where you want to connect.

I’ve emailed both HinTN and OpieJeanne to apologize for dropping the ball and to make sure they know I’m putting this up now. I’ll also repost tonight in the hope that you all out in Seattle can still pull this off despite my screwing it up.

Open thread!

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Open Thread: Proof of Life, NYC Saturday-Night Meetup

by Anne Laurie|  July 29, 20192:00 pm| 41 Comments

This post is in: Meetups and social events, Open Threads, Readership Capture

From Guest of (dis)Honor NotMax:

Couple of fuzzy pix the waitress was kind enough to snap for us. Fingers crossed that others who also took photos will be submitting
them.

Picture 1 [at top], beginning from far right, down that row and returning to the front of other row:

Chacal Charles Calthrop, Sam, JAFD, Chigail, Blanche, Paul W., Tom Q, Susan, Aaron, RedDirtGirl, arrieve, NotMax (dark shirt, snowy beard)

Picture 2 – reverse angle.

Tom Q, Susan, Aaron, RedDirtGirl, arrieve, NotMax, Chacal Charles Calthrop, Sam, JAFD, Chigail, Blanche, Paul W.

Here’s a few more, lifted from JAFD‘s comments:

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