PonyPotato

I have finally found a weekend to come up and visit the beautiful Monkie, as well as hopefully meet some of the rest of you TFP Chicagoans.

I'm planning on arriving early afternoon on Friday, Nov 6 and staying through early morning on Sunday the 8th (I need to get to SE Indiana by mid-day Sunday for a ski/snowboard swap sale). This gives Friday evening and virtually all day Saturday to plan some sort of meetup, and I'm hoping at least some of you are free!

Please post here if you think you will be available and/or have a suggestion for a venue or activity.

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amonkie

I'm obviously in!

Hopefully the weather will give us quite a few options....


Anything in particular you're game for?

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SecretMethod70

Friday might work for me... might be going to a soccer game Saturday night.

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RangerJoe

:O

I wanna go!

amonkie

RangerJoe - I have room for 1 one more... would you be able to find a place for your son overnight with this much notice? We'd love to have you!

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The_Jazz

I'm around that weekend but I have a dinner that Friday night. I don't show anything for Saturday at the moment, though. Worst case, maybe we can meet up somewhere up on the North Side since I'm fairly close to Monkie (about a mile or so away).

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dlish

im waiting for WK to ask why people dont visit CO

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PonyPotato

WK can't bitch too much.. I'll be visiting CO sometime this winter to go snowboarding with my friend who's moving to Denver in January.

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little_tippler

I can tell this will be a pretty awesome meet-up!

Wish I could be there...have fun

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

Seaver

I'm down for a meetup. I live in Schaumburg, but am downtown every weekend. Just let me know

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amonkie

OK, so dinner on Friday. Pony mentioned she'd love a place with some good and reasonable mixed drinks.


Anyone interested in doing dinner at Fireside? Address is 5739 N. Ravenswood Ave., Roughly Ravenswood and Peterson.

Also any other dinner suggestions for Friday - does not neccessarily have to be pizza, but reasonable in price would be nice.


Jazz - maybe we can hit you up for breakfast at Ann Sathers or The Heartland Cafe, or stop at Hopleaf for a drink or 2.

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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna

SecretMethod70

Due to some new developments at work, I'm not 100% positive I'll be free Friday evening. No matter what, I should be free for some time after 8, but before then is less clear right now.

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Ace_O_Spades

Have fun! Wish I could be there

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The_Jazz

How about Jinju? Korean and they have some pretty interesting drinks. Or Broadway Cellars has a pretty good wine list. Hamburger Mary's does pretty good, but you'll have to be tolerant of the overly-loud gay men.

PM me if this happens. You know where I live in proximity to The Fireside, so I might escape for a minute or two.

Calo
Artesia Pizza (woodfired)
Ole Ole
Hamburger Mary's
Uncommon Ground
The Ethiopian restaurant who's name I can't remember at Ashland and Olive
La Fonda (Columbian)

Saturday is now completely shot for me (all the meals are anyway), but I'm around all day Sunday. You've got my cell if you want to do something, which would necessarily require the attendence of little boys. Just so you're forewarned.

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"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

PonyPotato

Okay, I'm here! We went to Fireside for dinner last night (yum) and I elected for coming back to Monkie's place and essentially crashing, because, well, I was tired!

Today we're planning on heading down to Navy Pier and such. Wandering. I don't have any set thing I want to do for sure (the Field Museum would require about three days), so if any of you want to get together, PM me your phone number (my phone gets my emails, and my PMs show up in email, yay) and we can try to make it work.

Jazz, I plan on getting on the road hopefully before 9 tomorrow morning (preferably by 8, even), so if you want to get breakfast EARLY with your munchkins in tow, that can be arranged.

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— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

SecretMethod70

Pony, so sorry I wasn't able to get out last night After we finished, we ended up taking our volunteers out for a bite to eat, so I wasn't free until 10 and still had to drive home afterwards :/ Glad to hear you enjoyed Fireside though... maybe sometime this afternoon I might have an hour downtown, but it's hard to say. I'll PM you if it turns out I do.

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The_Jazz

Sorry guys. I just got back from taking Max to the doctor, and he's being treated for H1N1. I had to call it an early night last night, and I don't think that anyone really wants to hang out at my house now.

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"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

World's King

Why don't people ever visit me?

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little_tippler

Jazz I hope your little boy is all better soon. *hug*

__________________
Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

amonkie

Jazz - you gotta do what you gotta do, hopefully everyone feels better soon!

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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna