It is always time for expressions of gratitude.
I believe that is something yet to be determined, ari.
One thing occurred to me: while the Trappist has many delicious (and some not-so-delicious) beers, it doesn't have much in the way of food. Pacific Coast Brewing Co. does, though, and it's only a couple of blocks away.
And are you actually thinking of coming down, ari?
Everyone should come on down! I like food!
7: I like food!
Just 10 years in, and we already have a finalist for Understatement of the Century.
I'm looking at you Ari! And you Ben! And you Megan! And you ()! And you, person I didn't know lived in the Bay Area!
6: probably I can't make it, I admit. But I'd like to try.
I miss the Trappist.
I've got something else going on that afternoon, but might be able to make the meetup if it's held in the late afternoon or evening.
The Trappist now has a pretty decent food menu.
Evening would be my preference, although early enough that food would be dinner and not after dinner snacking. Say 7 or 8?
14: The food's good, but way expensive for what you get, and Pacific Coast has more options.
15: 7 works for me.
16 makes no sense now. I shoulda waited.
16 makes no sense now.
Oh yes it does.
I've got another beer drinking appointment in SF at 7 that night, but should be able to get to part of this one as well.
Can I lobby in this thread for an LA meetup? Halford's buying, since he initiated and then bailed on Austin.
Fine, can I lobby for a DC meetup in this thread?
Can I wait in the lobby while you guys meet up?
24: DC's full of lobbyists already; why make more?
Because the last DC area meetup I had any chance at attending was like two days after I moved here, so I couldn't go!
Drive up to Oakland
Much as I would love to, Chopper, my weekends are not my own. I coach the ten year old in flag football and the twelve year old in lacrosse. No rest for the wicked.
27: Anyway, I can pretty easily find an excuse to be in DC, though assembling the DCians with any sort of vigor seems to require someone from far away passing through. Anyone doing that anytime soon?
I probably have to be out of town this weekend too, or I'd come.
Last weekend I cut down a live oak tree. It was probably more effortful than sawing through Unistrut. 'Hard as oak' is very hard.
Note: it was a dead live oak tree, it was only about 5cm at ground level, and I had permission.
Are you sure it wasn't 0cm at ground level?
So are people now thinking, not Trappist but this other place? Or are they close enough that one can just go from one to the other?
31:
Strangely, yes. While there is some uncertainty in the measurement -- indeed, there is uncertainty in defining ground level, since the ground is far from level -- I can be absolutely sure that the dgl was greater than 0cm.
Did you feel more sensitive afterwards?
32: I dunno, can you walk a couple of blocks?
I'm up for an LA meetup anytime, but since the MLA is going to be in Los Angeles this year I thought we might want to wait and have a blowout event when a bunch of people are likely to be in town.
I am likely to be at the opera on Saturday, actually, so it doesn't really matter how far I can walk.
Rock criticism used to be a lot better.
29: we also have been meaning to get to Cville... But are traveling to PNW in early Oct for a time.
30: I LOVE unistrut.
Home Depot carries some ersatz unistrut, which is what I have to make do with, and even that is pretty fine.
I have never had an excuse to use 80/20.
The transcontinental trek to Oakland on Saturday proceeds apace. Is this the first Unfogged comment from inside Yellowstone?
Ari has been just waiting for years for someone to make that claim.
And don't even try to be the first from Teton or Glacier. It's already been done. The frontier really is closed.
Not years, JP. There's no reason to exaggerate.
I'ma be first from the canyonlands. You'll find my iPhone in my severed hand, if that's what it takes.
Has anyone done it from Zion? I want to go there again.
But where in these parks? Are you at lodges, campgrounds or way out in the back country bivying in the freezing cold on some high altitude ledge?
I'ma be first from the canyonlands.
No, you won't.
Has anyone done it from Zion?
Yes, they have.
The moon may still be available. Acadia is not. Don't even bother asking. Everglades, however, is still up for grabs.
Depends what you mean by "high" and "ledge". Altitude, too, for that matter. Define your terms, man!
53: Boston Harbor Islands?
Pinnacles?
Acadia?
Jefforson National Expansion Memorial?
The missing quotation marks are a stain on my soul. Also: the major CA units of the NP system -- Lassen, Point Reyes, and Yosemite -- are all spoken for.
55: for fuck's sake, rtfa! Or just re-read 53!
Great Basin? City of Rocks? Aleutian World War II National Historic Area?
The moon may still be available.
Craters of the Moon in Iowa?
Craters of the Moon is in Idaho, fool!
NYC? Boston? London? Bay Area? Austin? And have any commenters here ever been to China?
66: the National Park System has destinations in China? That's flat out impressive.
Oh wow. I know it's in Idaho, but I guess my fingers wanted it to be elsewhere.
I refuse to answer these impudent questions. You people know nothing of my work.
Huh, maybe I'll show up, if you fools can agree on a time and place.
I vote for Pacific Coast, as it looks like a better bet for finding seating. Those with experience should contradict me.
So I hit a basketball-sized rock that had come off the cliff next to the road last night. I'm pleased to report that no one was hurt, but my car is somewhere between minorly and majorly fuxxored. I'm currently stuck in Crescent City. I haven't heard from the mechanic, but the odds of me making Oakland tonight are becoming increasingly remote. I'll update when I know more.
Crescent City is nice, though, Chops. You should Check out the lighthouse.
You could also be the first to comment on Unfogged from one of the major Park Service units in California.
Just as long as he's not the first to comment from a supermax.
Per this comment, I sure hope Sir Kraab doesn't feel obligated to fuxxor up her car out of sympathy.
Pacific Coast also has their menu online, unlike the Trappist. My wife vouches for the food and the beer selection at Pacific Coast, which is near where she used to work. She doesn't know the Trappist, though.
From the menu in 77:
BBQ CHICKEN OR SHRIMP With Bell Peppers, Onion, Mushrooms and Barbecue Sauce
Shrimp with barbecue sauce?! Insane.
I hope people come even if Chopper is tragically delayed. So looks like Josh, Dave W., me, Otto later on, and maybe Magpie and nosflow? I see that both Josh and Dave W. have also spoken in favor of Pacific Coast, so that seems close enough to consensus.
Big Hole National Battlefield?
Hey, the Nez Perce NHP has a unit called Heart of the Monster. Anyone care to join the race to comment from there?
Chief Joseph, HGM?
I'll be at the opera, I'm afraid, but if you all want to come from Oakland to Absinthe in Hayes Valley at some point in the evening that would be swell.
The invitation in 81 is especially extended to the single women possessed of a reasonable degree of mental whateverness and attractiveness, of roughly my age, among our readership in the bay area, if, in fact, there are any such.
Shrimp with barbecue sauce?! Insane.
Agreed. Barbecue shrimp, on the other hand, is one of the most delicious things on the planet.
Oh I do hope people come. I think we'll be able to make it by 9 or 9:30.
I'm pretty sure I've commented from Yosemite and Zion. Also Western Australia, though not from one of the parks.
So, ari, you gonna make it or not?
What time? I'm having a hard time figuring out when the meet will actually be up.
It sounds as if Chopper won't be there until around 9 or 9:30, but the rest of the attendees seem to be going for 7:30.
Ari: 7:30 in your time zone is 8:15 Unfogged Time Zone, which is useful information in case you were using this website as a clock.
Is the post right or is Minivet right about the location? Not that I am going, but it is confusing! Although I imagine that anyone who is going has been keeping track.
Liveblogging: I'm still on my couch and the radio is playing 311's "Come Original".
ari, we're going to be at Pacific Coast starting at 7:30. And really, if Chopper can make it from Crescent City after having his car repaired, you have no excuse.
I'm printing out a Mutombo sign as we speak.
This is solid liveblogging so far, guys. Keep up the good work.
you have no excuse
You'd be surprised. For example: no, you have no excuse.
Yahoo! Maps says traffic's clear from Davis all the way down here. Hop in the car now and you could be here before Chopper.
I'll even buy you something to break the fast with.
More liveblogging: I got thirsty, so I just had a glass of water. Now the radio's playing "Kings and Queens" by 30 Second to Mars.
Josh, get off the couch. Ari, get out of Josh's dreams and into your car. nosflow, you'll have to be more specific -- I'm not crossing the bay for any cradle-robbing.
Liveblogging: Noisy BART is noisy.
Liveblogging: There is "traffic" that is causing my train to cool its wheels at MacArthur.
Liveblogging: I appear to be the first one here. Grabbing a table now.
If I had known TOS was going to be there, I would have left earlier. And I would have polished my pearls.
Kidding aside, are you people in Oakland?
I guess I'm still confused.
There are a lot of people in Oakland. Some of them read Unfogged.
Another installment of Facts with Teo.
There's more demand for it than I was expecting.
110: Pacific Coast Brewing Co. in downtown Oakland. Well, other people are. I'm still in an over-air-conditioned BART train waiting for someone to crank the track switch manually.
Status update: about an hour out up 101. Ari, get in the car.
Adding live transportblogging sure ups the drama here!
Still trying to get my older boy to sleep. He had (relatively minor) surgery the other day and isn't keen on having me leave when he might "wake up sad". My breaking heart, let me show you it.
Josh, minivet, Dave W. and I are here. Our food could not possibly be less kosher.
Liveblogging: Josh is less overeducated than the rest of us. SHUN.
Minivet is the only one here without a smartphone. SHUN.
But at least I'm not the one without a smartphone!
Walking over from a block away. Where are you guys? I have on a Cincinatti Reds cap and a black "Rev 105" t-shirt.
Still dealing with a sleepless child, I'm afraid. I guess I'll have to let Josh buy me dinner another time.
You should save up your meetup mojo and use it to come to Santa Barbara, anyhow! (Hope no one wakes up sad.)
Liveblogging: Chopper and friend are here! Yay!
Ari is not! Boo!
DaveW would liketo tell everyone that the table has seen an unusual amount of Senatorial and Gubernatoria genitalia.
Yeah, my bad. I was coming to make the correction when I saw you'd already cleared it up. Thanks to all for the good time.
Now that was some liveblogging, right there.