I think we need a non-political thread to give us a break.
The Denver meet-up was a great success. I don’t know about everyone else, but I love meeting everyone. Jackals are the best. I had to head out early, because…work. But when I left, everyone was cheerfully chatting away. If you ever get the chance, meetups are great fun. Proof of life below the fold.
I’ll let everyone identify themselves as they would like (although I suspect the Hamilton t-shirt is a giveaway for one of us).
Meetup photo 1 (by accident this is actually everyone – see the reflection in the window)
Meetup photo 2
Meetup photo 3
Meetup photo 4
Meetup photo 5
I’ve numbered the photos to make it easier for everyone to identify themselves.
And because I didn’t think to hand the camera over and let someone snap me – here’s a photo of me and the kids:
Open non-politics thread.
Baud
I expected everyone to be older. And by older, I mean old.
Nice looking group.
Joy in FL
Those Great Danes !!!!!
Just One More Canuck
The Hamilton t-shirt is a bit of a giveaway for Mnem
SiubhanDuinne
I love everything about this thread. Can’t wait to find out who the various jackals are!
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: BJ commenters, more curmudgeonly online than in person.
rikyrah
That last picture made me smile.
The other pics- good folks :)
schrodingers_cat
@Just One More Canuck: For some reason I thought she had curly hair that was lighter. Did she change her hairstyle or am I confused.
MomSense
Love all those beautiful jackals.
That kid has a great arm and that dog is a hoot.
Miss Bianca
That’s me, (or “that is I”, for fellow grammar pedants out there) looking uncharacteristically earnest while trying to ignore the camera, (hi, TaMara!) at Mnem’s elbow in photo #1.
It was a really fun meet-up – well worth dodging rockslides, torrential rain, and to-me-bewildering downtown Denver’s traffic to attend! Thanks to TaMara and the other organizers!
zhena gogolia
Everyone looks so nice!
Betty Cracker
As always, shocked — shocked! — by how normal and nice everyone looks. :)
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: It would appear so.
MagdaInBlack
You’re a fine looking pack of jackals =-)
Haroldo
@Betty Cracker: Ditto. And how!
Miss Bianca
@Baud: This is Colorado, Baud – where even middle-aged and elder jackals are in tip-top form! ; )
ETA: Consider us “Mt Woebegon” in that regard. ; )
thruppence
That’s me (sorry pedants) directly under the green balloons in photo 4. Downtown Denver is bewildering to most. I remember reading a novel years ago in which the protagonist gets repeatedly lost in Denver, driving key elements of the plot.
Miss Bianca
@thruppence: Ha ha! That’s a novel I want to read – you should have heard me cursing like a sailor as I ran into *yet another* maze of streets and construction blocking me from pursuing the most logical-seeming path between points A & B!
Nice to meet you, btw! Comment more often! : )
EBT
My 17 hour van trip turned into a 29 hour one, so I was pretty much not gonna be able to make this one. I am just now feeling alive again a week later. Next time!
zhena gogolia
@thruppence:
“That’s me” is absolutely correct.
RedDirtGirl
So nice to be able to put faces to nyms! Wasn’t there some talk of a meet up in NYC late in the month? I think the date being floated was July 30th, although I have it on good authority that LAO won’t be available that day!
FlyingToaster
@Betty Cracker: Honestly, we’re normal people. Taxpayers, cynics, voters, and not fucking idiots.
JanieM
@MomSense: I was going to say the same thing about the kid’s arm. Wow!
Also — is there one woman who goes around playing the mother in all the cute kid and cute pet videos? They all sound the same to me, same jollyl wheedling, same laugh……. ;-)
Old Dan and Little Anne
After a year without a dog, my sister knows a guy who is hooking us up with a Lab puppy in September. I think I am going to have a panic attack. I have not had a puppy since 1999. Holy shit.
Baud
@FlyingToaster:
Which is it?
FlyingToaster
@Baud: Por qué no las dos?
Miss Bianca
@Old Dan and Little Anne: Ooh, puppy! You’ll do fine. Particularly if it’s a Lab – I’ve come to the conclusion that Labs and Lab mixes are *made of awesome*. Watson has converted me. : )
Heidi Mom
Lovely photo of you and the dogs!
?BillinGlendaleCA
Guess I need to get myself in gear and get the pics from the meetup in SacTown ready, I’m sort of still recovering(my feet still hurt from all the walking I did) from the long day up there.
hedgehog mobile
That’s me in the green shirt, next to thruppence, in photo 4. Loved meeting everyone.
Alain the site fixer
@Miss Bianca: Just heard about the new Oak Creek Grade Volunteer Fire folks, glad to hear there’s a quick-response close by!
Miss Bianca
@Alain the site fixer: Yeah, it’s cool, tho’ I wasn’t too psyched about the Gadsden flag displays on their truck in the Fourth of July parade. : ( Still, they are neighbors and they come thru’ for neighbors when it’s really needed. A lesson for all of us there.
petorado
I’m the one in the blue shirt watching Mnem’s video on her iPhone.
Being around positive, intelligent, charismatic, well-read, adventurous, and caring people is a great way to spend an evening! My outlook on this nation’s future brightened considerably being around such good folks. Thank you all for coming out!
If only the FTFNYT would send a reporter to a Balloon Juice meet up and ask us what we think of the current administration, maybe they would get some lucid and informed opinions to report about rather than the foolish drivel they get finding wayward Trump supporters in some dive bar in a deep red county.
ruemara
Now, that’s a handsome group over there. I have to make it to Denver one of these days so I can
hug your dogsmeet the Juicers of CO.In the interests of starting your day right, here is a loving floof loving, floofing and managing to get into things because she is mommy’s little multi-tasker!
Quick question for donors – thank you all once again – are you getting my updates? If so, would you like another recipe with the next one? Cat pic? Dance video?
@petorado: We say fuck too much and they will revert back to the vapors that spawned them.
Miss Bianca
@petorado: “We caught up with some Hillary Clinton supporters at the Wynkoop Brewery in Denver, and you wouldn’t BELIEVE what they told us! They still hate Trump! They still think Hillary was not only robbed, but that she actually was right about everything *and* would have made a better President!” ; )
Patricia Kayden
What lovely photos of great people. Yay Progressives!! I always enjoy the threads about the meet ups. It’s fun to put faces with commenters.
raven
Ya’ll look pretty damn respectable to me.
laura
@ruemara: Ruemara – ALL THANKS TO YOU! That you’re willing to become a citizen and “help do what must be done” ie., participatory democracy is a gift of great value. Cats dancing while cooking videos would be a nice bonus.
raven
@Miss Bianca: You know that the Gasen Flag was the symbol of the People’s Bi-Centennial?
zhena gogolia
When I see these pictures, I think, it can’t be that Putin will dominate all these kind, intelligent people. Then I remember all my kind, intelligent friends in Moscow.
Orchid Moon
Loved the toddler and dog playing ball! Meet up was great! The BJ group is very fine, and not at all old. Hubby and I in photo 3 at the end of the table. Thanks to Patrick and all for organizing it. We are looking forward to the next one.
California Stars
Fun meetup! Did the Petaluma one ever happen? I kind of lost the trail on that one.
JAFD
@RedDirtGirl: I have Sunday ye 29th marked on my calendar, at an Irish bistro near Penn Stn, IIRC. Trust more details to come.. C U there
stinger
[[waves]] Hi, everybody in Denver! I’d like to read that book, too!
(As mentioned by thruppence in #16.)
Snarlymon
I’m on the right in picture 3. Great to meet fellow jackals and spend an evening in interesting conversation. I might even have to comment more often.
Miss Bianca
@raven: The People’s Bi-Centennial? (I know, I know, I could look it up, but I’m lazy). Out here the Gadsden Flag represents libertarianism. But since libertarians out here (I speak from the experience of living with one) actually *do* believe in banding together to take care of their neighbors when there’s a crisis like wildfire, I guess I can’t kick about it too much.
LAO
@RedDirtGirl: Honestly, you are the best at remembering stuff.
@JAFD: What time Sunday? any idea?
ruemara
@?BillinGlendaleCA: We had one?! dang.
Brachiator
Cool looking group. Glad that everyone had a good time.
ETA: The kid, the dog, the ball, Fun!
California Stars
@Old Dan and Little Anne: Congrats!
NotMax
@LAO
Tentatively set for the 29th, from 5 p.m. until ??. As it’s a Sunday, feeling was that a wee bit early start time would be better. 5 ought to be after the worst of the daytime heat.
Place:
Tír na Nóg
254 W. 31 St. (near 8th Av.)
Their web site.
E-mailing Adam as the date draws nearer to post a reminder is on the ol’ to-do list , especially to gauge how many in order to make a reservation.
A Ghost To Most
So it turns out, I am currently afflicted with shingles, and according to my RN wife, contagious. Not coming was a positive for you folks, in more ways than one.
LAO
@NotMax: thanks.
A Ghost To Most
@EBT: Welcome to CO. I hope you brought rain.
Scamp Dog
I’m on the left of photo 5, in the blue polo shirt. Had a great time!
RedDirtGirl
@JAFD: Oh, cool!
Domestic short hair tabby (fka vheidi)
@JAFD: I’m going to try to make it too
RedDirtGirl
@LAO: I like to say I have a mind like a steel sieve!
Manyakitty
@A Ghost To Most: Oh no! That’s awful. I shall learn from your mistake and investigate the shingles vaccine.
Manyakitty
Also, too, I’m in for an Ohio meetup. I live in Akron, and would probably drag my butt up to 2 hours away to see some jackals IRL.
something fabulous
@ruemara: MOAR RECIPIES!
Mnemosyne
Still at my conference. Getting ready for the afternoon sessions of day 2. Tuesday night was super fun and Denver seems like a very cool city.
Shana
@thruppence: Sounds like something Connie Willis would write. Although I think she’s from Boulder, but still Colorado so who knows.
takebakawashi
That kid in the video has a pretty good arm!
A Ghost To Most
@Manyakitty:
Not too bad so far, or weed is effective at masking it.
satby
@NotMax: I’m in! I get there on the 28th, and my old co-worker buddies and former exchange student visits are Sunday earlier and Monday. I have time for a wee bit of sightseeing before heading home Tuesday late afternoon.
So looking forward to all of it!
debbie
Photos without names do not count!
debbie
@Manyakitty:
My doctor says the new vaccine will be far superior to the current one, plus it’s dead, not live, virus. She wants me to hold off until she gets some in stock. It’s a 2-shot series.
debbie
@ruemara:
I’ve received one update so far.