Attending:[ul][li]Misnomer[/li][li]QuickSilver[/li][li]brownie55[/li][li]ultrafilter[/li][li]mcott[/li][li]Johanna (yay, I won’t be the only girl!)[/ul][/li]Interested, But Not Sure:[ul][li]BlueKangaroo[/li][li]Hello Again[/li][li]Roland Orzabal[/li][li]dwalin[/ul][/li]Enigmatically Noncommittal:[ul][li]Wendell Wagner[/li][li]Triskadecamus[/ul][/li]
Sounds good! Sorry it will cost you so much to get there before you’ve even had a drink … how 'bout I buy you one to help defray your expenses?
Also, sorry that I couldn’t commit to picking you up from a Metro station. It’s good that I didn’t, because now it looks like I’ll be at Pentagon City that afternoon and I’m not sure when I’ll get back – I’ll definitely have my butt on a Jimmy’s barstool at 7pm, though!
Well, if anyone cares, it is now officially unofficial that I will definitely most likely be going somewhere in the general direction of other-than-south on that weekend. Which means I might just show my face with a buddy of mine to say hi and have a couple (a couple of Cokes, seein’ as how I ain’t the drinkin’ type and I’m drivin’ the party wagon anyhoo, but a couple nonetheless) with you fine fraternizing folks. It is possible that this is almost certainly a commitment, but only in the sense that, without a doubt, it is not.
Unfortunately, I am not able to improve my status, and must remain enigmatically noncommittal for now. Wendell Wagoner on the other hand seems to have drifted into the realm of mysteriously silent.
I would like to say that this entire trendsetting thing is a bit more tension producing than I was prepared for. I need a drink.
Well, being one who won’t say no to a tall cold one being bought for me, thanks. Although I have to say it really isn’t all that costly. All but two of the museums I want to visit are free, and the only other expenses besides meals I anticipate are two stuffed pandas at the zoo, and a possible insane shopping spree at the Discovery Channel Store. Budget wise, that ain’t bad at all. The interesting part will be getting back to ye old Marriott, but if I can get delivered to a Metro Station at the end of the night, that won’t be that bad.
As an aside, Misnomer, I see that you’re in Reston. Anywhere near the Ebola Monkey House? Not on most tourist lists, but having read a few books about it, I’m quite interested.
Alas, Tris, I am unable to jump on this new “making of plans” bandwagon, for it is a strange and frightening thing that disturbs me to contemplate. I must therefore remain enigmatically noncommital until such time as I either do or do not show up. Rest assured that if I do happen to be in the area, I’ll be certain to make my presence known.
It’s only two weeks away now! Here’s the updated list:
Attending:[ul][li]Misnomer[/li][li]QuickSilver[/li][li]brownie55[/li][li]ultrafilter[/li][li]mcott[/li][li]Johanna[/li][li]Triskadecamus[/ul][/li]Interested, But Not Sure:[ul][li]BlueKangaroo & Kangaroo_in_Black[/li][li]Hello Again[/li][li]dwalin[/ul][/li]Enigmatically Noncommittal:[ul][li]Roland Orzabal[/ul][/li]Mysteriously Silent:[ul][li]Wendell Wagner[/ul][/li]I have a proposal: in order to make it easier for us to recognize each other at Jimmy’s, I’m willing to set up a photo album on Flickr. The name of each picture will be our Doper names, and the comments will contain our first names. If you’re interested, e-mail a picture to me via my profile: two days before the event I’ll send the URL to everyone who sent me a photo (you don’t have to have an account with them). You can also send me a link to your photo instead of the photo itself, if you want. Make sure that both your Doper name and your first name appear somewhere in your e-mail.
I’d never heard about it until you asked. But I’ve only lived here for 7 years – is it something that happened a while ago?
Um, “attending” is close enough, right?
Perhaps … but will we know that it’s you? :dubious:
I’ll do you one better. Here’s my upcoming blog that I set up to record this trip for the folks back home. My pic is in the profile, and FYI, it was taken on “The Line” at Greenwich earlier this year. All part of my goal to visit at least one country capital per year. This year is good - live in one, visit two.
Look for the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. It’s an interesting account of how a variant of Ebola that thankfully didn’t transmit to humans came to a Hazelton Research Products quarantine facility for monkeys in Reston. USARMIID was involved in the decon.
I think I’ll be good for the “before”, but if you can swing by Vienna “after”, that would save a cab ride.
Maybe something like “Isaac Newton Square” perhaps? Your set-up was too cute, Johanna, I love it!
I haven’t been in the neighborhood in years but I lived nearby for about a decade and show no ill effects twitchtwitch that I’m aware of. Last time I heard, there were plans to tear down the building which stood on the west side of the park facing east.
Looks like I guessed right. And to think I used to take my kids to the ice skating rink right next to there… My company’s office used to be around the corner from there…
I think I can come, given that District auditions were today*. I may have to cancel if I get a lot of homework next week – I hope that’s not a problem.
*and I got in! Not that it’s hard, but it’s good for my self esteem.
I think it will be fine – noisier than a place without music, but the dancefloor is a separate part of the bar and I’m hoping to stake out a table near the front door. It’s not a huge place, so the music will be unavoidable, but it’s really more of a neighborhood bar than a club or anything. There’s even a foosball table. {grin}
This is totally casual: the running attendance list I’ve been posting is just FYI, and also to provide the occasional thread bump. If you show up, I’ll be there. If you don’t show up, I’ll still be there. (Though if no one shows up, I probably won’t be there much later than 7:30 … at which time I will contact the people at Guinness and ask about the record for how many people anyone has ever been stood up by at the same time. ;)) Hope you can make it!
Well, that’s fine. Noisy really isn’t a problem - the bar that I visit most often is a “sports bar / restaurant” that often has ultimate fight cage matches on PPV. I’m quite able to have a pint or two and read despite the screaming fight fans raving about every headlock and punch to the face. The danger sign for me is a “boom shaka laka boom shaka laka” type of meat market dance bar. You’d have to ply me with the amount of alcohol I used to be able to drink when I was young and stupid to even get me in the door of one of those places today. Have a few beers, hell yeah - I’m up for that. Get sloberingly loaded and hit on people on the dance floor - oh no. I’ve even gone as far as booking a hotel room on the “gold” floor for my work christmas party, because it’s price pointed 75 bucks above what our block space is, and nobody else will have a room on that floor so I can sleep (and I get free breakfast and a shoe shine).
Also, with my transportation plan to get there, I will certainly be at the Air and Space Museum Annex that day, so if anyone wants to see planes with a big kid at heart, let me know.
Directions from 267:[ul][li]Take 7100 (Fairfax County Parkway), most likely north[/li][li]Follow signs for Spring Street; it will be a left exit (if driving north)[/li][li]At the end of the ramp (traffic light), turn right on Spring Street[/li][li]Take Spring Street into Herndon[/li][li]Turn left on Elden Street (next light after the Post Office)[/li][li]Turn right on Station Street (Jimmy’s will be on left corner)[/li][li]Turn left into the free parking lot[/li][li]Jimmy’s is directly across Elden Street[/ul][/li]Saturday, 7:00 PM.
I look like this, and will be wearing dark blue jeans and a black sweater. I’ll most likely arrive a little early, and will do my best to secure a table near the front door, but worst case look for me at the bar. I doubt the place will be crowded that early, though.
