Meetup reminder: Portland on short notice

December 26, 2006 8:12 AM

REMINDER: Short notice Portland Meetup tonight at the (very soon to be closed) Rose and Raindrop, 7PM until drunk o'clock.
posted by loquacious to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:12 AM (16 comments total)

Just double checking--Rose and Raindrop is not smoke-free, correct?
posted by frykitty at 8:35 AM on December 26, 2006

Is that near Digger O' somethings? I was an AD with The Oregonian back in the day and was kicked out of several of PDX' finest watering holes on both sides of the river. Have a great meet-up. Check for a black Members Only jacket I left there around 1985. You can keep the katana sword.
posted by hal9k at 8:38 AM on December 26, 2006

They have a smoking room. It has a giant poker table. Never will you feel happier to have been relegated to an enclosed smoking zone.
posted by cortex at 8:42 AM on December 26, 2006

Never will you feel happier to have been relegated to an enclosed smoking zone.

Uh...yeah...no. Ah well.
posted by frykitty at 8:44 AM on December 26, 2006

No, Rose and Raindrop is not smoke free. They allow smoking down in the bar, and when we were there last time we smoked in the enclosed poker room, while nonsmoking MeFites used the ajoining balcony area and we milled betwixt them.
posted by loquacious at 9:01 AM on December 26, 2006

Frykitty, I was at the last meetup, and didn't even notice the smoke, though I know the smokers were in the room next-door. On the other hand, I'm not overly sensitive to smoking, either.
posted by jdroth at 10:54 AM on December 26, 2006

I walked into the poker/smoker room to say hi to the smokers who had self-segregated, and it was pretty noxious in there. The room is tiny and not very well ventilated.

The outside room is OK, though, although I kind of missed seeing everyone who had decamped into the smoking room.
posted by matildaben at 11:01 AM on December 26, 2006

loquacious: "7PM until drunk o'clock."

Well. This meetup seems to have had the dubious distinction of having been over before it began.
posted by koeselitz at 11:11 AM on December 26, 2006

If it weren't for the bronchitis, I'd be there. Consider me present in spirit.
posted by Tacodog at 3:05 PM on December 26, 2006

I alas will not be there. I am very tired and I still have to pack for my big Colorado trip...I do still have a bedazzler though so yeah...
posted by yodelingisfun at 4:06 PM on December 26, 2006

I seem to have the beginnings of a fever and my muscles ache like nothing else, so I, too, will have to pass.
posted by cmonkey at 4:49 PM on December 26, 2006

I'm actually fading fast, as well. I've got a huge backpack full of leftovers, warm PNW travelling clothes, camera gear and a few small presents I need to drag home on a 30 mile bus jog, so I'm just going to head straight home instead of trying to negotiate a layover.

I think most of us just bit off more than we could chew the day after Christmas. I'm ready for a nap, and my Christmas was relatively supper mellow. Too bad we'll miss the Rose and Raindrop, but we'll have more meetups elsewhere.
posted by loquacious at 5:51 PM on December 26, 2006

R&R was still alive but sadly, the upstairs was unlit. Ah well, onto American Cowgirls!
posted by hyperlith at 1:34 AM on December 27, 2006

It turned into a micro-meetup—my HG cohorts and I hit the joint a little after 8 and there were no mefites in sight; they stayed on to wait for ludwig_van, since we didn't know how to get in contact with him (note to self: buy skylight, decorate with tuba silhouette), and I went off to band practice. When I came back at 10:30ish, ludwig and packy had arrived.

We discussed shoutouts, but as no one had a camera we decided that they would be a bit silly.
posted by cortex at 6:52 AM on December 27, 2006

Huh. I didn't realize there was a meetup last night, and yet I was at the R&R from about 7:30 till I don't remember when. Were you all at the two tables pushed together, one table away from the windows looking out on Grand Ave?
posted by thinman at 11:02 AM on December 27, 2006

A grand old time it was!
posted by ludwig_van at 12:21 PM on December 27, 2006