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Meetups and social events

Query From An Exile: Possible Seattle Meet-Up?

by Anne Laurie|  November 1, 20204:30 pm| 37 Comments

This post is in: Meetups and social events

We relay, you decide. From commentor Yutsano:

I’m going to be back in the Seattle area November 22-24. I am not insensitive to the times, but I am DYING for some meet-up action! Any possibility?…

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Looks Like She Made It! Congratulations, lamh. (we all yell: Surprise!)

by WaterGirl|  May 13, 20206:05 pm| 174 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Celebrating Jackals, Events, Meetups and social events

Congratulations, lamh!   SURPRISE!

You thought you were done, but we have one last quiz for you:

Looks Like She Made It! Congratulations, lamh. (we all yell: Surprise!) 1Looks Like She Made It! Congratulations, lamh. (we all yell: Surprise!) 2

Cue the music, and then we have cake!

dmsilev baked this lovely cake for you – for real! – and extends his congratulations to you for making it through the grad school grind.  It’s a lot of work, and something to be proud of.

Technically it’s an orange chocolate ganache tart.  We talked it over, and we definitely think there’s enough to share.  I think this is one group activity we can all get behind.

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If there’s a song or a GIF or an image or a photo or a movie or anything that you’d like to add in your comment as  “gift” to lamh – and you’re not a front pager – if you send it to me by email or put the link in your comment, I can turn it into a real thing in your comment, rather than a link.

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Update:  I am very disappointed that no one spelled out “Happy Graduation!” or “you made it!” on squares of toilet paper with colored markers or sent lamh on a pretend vacation.

Oh, and because I screwed up the time zone, I will pin this post to the top at 8pm (blog time) which is the earliest lamh should get out of her final exam.  (Just for a couple of hours until, hopefully, lamh arrives.)

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Seattle GOTV Meet-Up: Proof of Life

by Anne Laurie|  February 18, 20207:15 pm| 26 Comments

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

Seattle GOTV - HE Wolf & Casey L

From party-planner and GOTV goddess CaseyL:

The Seattle GOTV Meetup yesterday went very well. H E showed up with a green balloon (Yay, H E !) and I had made a table sign, so people could and did find us easily.

Attending were:
H E Wolf
CaseyL
thalarctosMaritimus plus one (lurker)
Opiejeanne and Mr. Opiejeanne

Not a bad turnout, for a meetup where we’d be putting people to work!

There was of course a lot of social chatter, and then we got down to business. Thanks to the tips suggested by PostcardsToVoters, plus H E’s amazing organizational skills and motivational talk, we got 18 postcards done and mailed – and sent folks home with postcards and stamps and information on how to sign up at the site to get addresses.

I should also say that Elliott Bay Brewery was very friendly and helpful, letting us into an area not usually open until later in the day so we could push tables together, set up our impressive piles of Stuff, and put up the table sign AND the balloon!

We didn’t get many photos, as we were more focused on socializing/working, but here is what we do have.

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thalarctosMaritimus
Seattle GOTV Meet-Up: ThalarctusMaritimus

Opiejeanne and H E Wolf
Seattle GOTV Meet-Up: HE & Opiejeanne

Mr. Opiejeanne
Seattle GOTV Meet-Up: Mr. Opiejeanne

H E (aka Zorro!) Hard at work

Seattle GOTV Meet-Up: Proof of Life 1

It was fun, it was productive, and we’re gonna do it again!

Seattle GOTV Meet-Up: Proof of Life

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Seattle Meet-Up Reminder: SUNDAY, February 16

by Anne Laurie|  February 14, 20202:28 pm| 28 Comments

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

Note from ace party-planner CaseyL:

The Seattle GOTV Postcard Meetup is this Sunday Feb 16 at 12:30, at the Elliott Bay Brewery in Lake City.

Would it be possible for you to post a reminder about it?

There was talk, when this was announced, of doing simultaneous postcard-writing meetups in other cities. This would be a good place to leave a comment, if you’d like to arrange one of those meetups!

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Balloon Juice Meetup – Santa Fe, February 4

by Cheryl Rofer|  February 1, 202012:06 pm| 26 Comments

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

I have reserved a table at La Boca for Quinerly, O. Felix Culpa, and me for Tuesday, February 4, at 12:30 pm. If you’d like to join us, please comment here.

I have the sense that our separate page for meetups isn’t working well for announcements. Or perhaps it’s just that there aren’t that many of us in New Mexico.

Anyhow, here’s another chance. Come meet Quinerly while she’s here!

Balloon Juice Meetup – Santa Fe, February 4Post + Comments (26)

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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