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Post-Pre PAX Monthly Covergence!
Snickers
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the circus! Ok, maybe its not a circus, but we might go to the zoo!
As promised, this here is a thread designed to arrange monthly conjunctions, from now until PAX '09.
Yes, there is a thread for random "I feel like going to lunch, anyone want to go" things, and thats fine! This thread will be different, and a tad more organized. What I want to do here, is have things planned, about once a month, all the way until PAX.
As a farther note:
First thing to do, is get suggestions from you, the community! Give me some options, as for where we should go? Should it be on the same day every month, or different days, depending on the month? Understandably not everyone will be able to make it to every Conclave, including me, but thats fine.
So suggest away! Discuss! Mingle! Orgy! But please try to keep the flaming to a minimum. I will update this post at regular intervals, so keep an eye out!
Current location suggestions: Zoo, Gameworks, Science Center, Greenlake, Orcas island, Ballard, Whidbey island, an Orgy, Bowling and a movie at Lincoln Square in Bellevue, Tillamook Cheese Factory in Portland, brewery tours and wine tasting, Fort Casey.
Current date/time suggestions: The same time every month. Such as the last Sunday or Saturday of every month, adjusted for holidays. Wednesday the 24th was mentioned, as that is Haikufrenzy's birthday.
As promised, this here is a thread designed to arrange monthly conjunctions, from now until PAX '09.
Yes, there is a thread for random "I feel like going to lunch, anyone want to go" things, and thats fine! This thread will be different, and a tad more organized. What I want to do here, is have things planned, about once a month, all the way until PAX.
As a farther note:
Well, I would be willing to help some with things outside of the Puget Sound area, but it would require more local organization. I'm willing to use my OP for Convergences in any locale!
First thing to do, is get suggestions from you, the community! Give me some options, as for where we should go? Should it be on the same day every month, or different days, depending on the month? Understandably not everyone will be able to make it to every Conclave, including me, but thats fine.
So suggest away! Discuss! Mingle! Orgy! But please try to keep the flaming to a minimum. I will update this post at regular intervals, so keep an eye out!
Current location suggestions: Zoo, Gameworks, Science Center, Greenlake, Orcas island, Ballard, Whidbey island, an Orgy, Bowling and a movie at Lincoln Square in Bellevue, Tillamook Cheese Factory in Portland, brewery tours and wine tasting, Fort Casey.
Current date/time suggestions: The same time every month. Such as the last Sunday or Saturday of every month, adjusted for holidays. Wednesday the 24th was mentioned, as that is Haikufrenzy's birthday.
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<j0z1e> ummmm, all three? at once?
Now that that's taken care of...It might be easier just to do the same day. Like last Sunday of the month or something. Adjust for holidays.
Also, the zoo is awesome. So is Gameworks. And the Science Center. And Greenlake before it gets too cold.
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Also Orca's Island. Catch a ferry from Anacortes. BEAUTIFUL. Not that most of you would be as interested...?
Or Fort Casey on Whidbey Island.
Or orgy.
I do support the idea of the zoo, science center, and gameworks. All great! Though if we meet at Gameworks, we (by we I mean me) might look across the corner at the WSCTC and wonder where the hell PAX is!
Well, I would be willing to help some with things outside of the Puget Sound area, but it would require more local organization. I'm willing to use my OP for Convergences in any local though!
yeah... I can't really go to Gameworks anymore during the year, I end up standing at the windows and staring longingly towards the WSCTC. The arcade noises slowly fade and from somewhere I can hear a sad song (that I think might be My Belruel).
Ah, I'm just kidding... actually I have an unnatural addition to that Tycho drum game.
COME ON GUYS YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT.
I would be. Especially being in Bellingham. So much closer!
It'd be a meetup for those of us who are truly hardcore. And cheese fanatics.
I am both!
(Or, those who live in Portland. Bastards!)
I'd be in for that, my wife and I are in the Baltimore area. I'm sure there are a few of us that are fairly local.
So... anybody gonna jump out and be like "hey lets do it here at this time!" lol :P
(sorry, completely irrelevant, but I just now realized that Google Chrome is awesome!)
We could take over People's Pub & play board games while we drink!
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Same goes for wine tasting.
We could do multiple events.
oh yes!!! I've always wanted to do both those things!! Going with a cool group PAX people would make it even better!!
Plus it gives me an exucse to stop at the only (by itself anyway) A&W drivein still standing in WA in anacortes.
mmmm root beer float
Hey, if someone wants to start a similar thread for their home town, I'm all for it! Means less work for me
If not, I'm still willing to list anything people arrange in the OP.
O rly?
Moar details will be announced when plans are hashed out.
I'm particularly interested in touristy shit. Tours and whatnot. Cause I haven't done that yet.
And BigRed... my curiousity is piqued!
We have giant blokus at my work but no one will play with me! People just like to spell things out with the pieces o_O
Half my department is addicted to Blokus. There is always a game going on at lunch, sometimes two. Not the giant version though.
Kinda ridiculous sometimes...a week or so ago they were all watching Blokus strategy videos online. I just play...and usually lose.
And since the first meeting is the first saturday of Sept, maybe the 1st Saturday of the month is defacto scheduled.
Being from Oregon I can attest to the wonders of the Tillamook Cheese Factory. But it's in the middle of Oregon's coast line and way too far away for me now. Kirkland to Oregon is far, and to Tillamook is even further
I think we will do just fine with the forums, though if everyone wants a google group or something, thats fine too.
And wait, first meeting? Oh, from the other thread. Thats a different thread all together, as I stated in my OP :P That thread is for random "Lets eat or do something" This is more "This month we go here, next month we go there, and the next month there."
Luckily the closest burgerville is only an hour and a half away or I'd probably move back to ptown.
I think first order of business: Pick a day. Whichever is most popular will be what we use. Example: "I would prefer the last Sunday of every month". That way there will be no bickering later down the road trying to figure it out day by day month by month. We will know exactly when the meetings are.
Second order of business: Snickers will put together the list of things and we can plan or vote or whatever from there. Then we can decide what would be most feasible/most fun depending on what we want to do. So, if we want to have bar and board game night, we can pick a venue based on that.
Good, yes?
My super christian mother-in-law made this video of her visit to the Tillamook Cheese Factory. I really have not been able to explain to her why it is so funny.
Yes!