OCR folks in San Francisco?

[Mazedude]

Hey gang; Mazedude here. So, this is very tentative, but I might be coming out to San Francisco next month, and it could be fun to hang with some OCR peeps while I'm in town. I've only been out that way once, ever, but this time it could be for a whole week. Big web developer's conference in downtown that I'd like to attend. And I imagine there are probably some folks I know who don't often get to come to the East Coast events like MAGFest, yeah?

So, just throwing that out there; not sure how busy I'll be networking and all at the event, but around the training it could be fun to have someone I know show me the city a little.

[Mirby]

Ohey I'm an OCR folk in San Francisco.

How 'bout that.

[LuigiFan]

Unfortunately I'm not in San Francisco myself, but I am considering moving there fairly soon. Might be nice to know of an OCR community out there to get connected with.

[Bahamut]

I think I know what conference you're heading to - I might be moving to the area soon, but unfortunately I don't think until afterwards.

[Geoffrey Taucer]

I'm in San Jose. Might be able to swing up to SF on a sunday if there are goings-on.

[Native Jovian]

I live on the opposite side of the country, but I'm going to be in SF for work from May 7th through 24th-ish. If there's going to be an OCR get-together I'm totally down.

[zykO]

hit me up when you're out here, bro - miss your face

[Mazedude]

Hey hey, sounds promising! Good deal.

It's still very tentative at this point; my company is being iffy about the cost it would take to send me out there, although they totally see the benefit it would bring. I guess a follow-up question would be - in order to help them save money and thus afford the plane tickets - would I be able to crash with anyone if I had to? Mirby? Waleed? A simple couch would suffice.

And yeah if it works out, let's definitely arrange a hang-out, it's funny that there'll be some other folks out there for work as well.

[Mirby]

Unfortunately I have no couch. I'm in an SRO so it's basically a glorified closet.

[Mazedude]

Phooey, well thanks for letting me know. I'm waiting to hear back from another contact about a place to crash, so hopefully it'll all work out. I've only ever been to SF once and it was a very rushed trip, so I'd enjoy a chance to actually see the city for a couple days this time, heh.

[zykO]

i don't live in the bay area, unfortunately so it's not of much use to you for this trip but you already know you have a place to crash if you ever needed it

[Bahamut]

So I think I'll be moved in by then, but I'll be living in Mountain View - not sure if you want to be trekking from that far every day though.

[Native Jovian]

I'm in San Francisco now, for those of you keeping track. I'm staying at the Grand Hyatt on Union Square, and I'll be here until the 16th. I'll be working pretty much every day until then, so I don't have tons of free time, but if anyone who lives around here wants to do something one night, I should be able to.

[Mirby]

Damn, you're in one of the nice places, Jovian.

[Geoffrey Taucer]

I'm in San Francisco now, for those of you keeping track. I'm staying at the Grand Hyatt on Union Square, and I'll be here until the 16th. I'll be working pretty much every day until then, so I don't have tons of free time, but if anyone who lives around here wants to do something one night, I should be able to.

I'd be down to grab dinner on saturday or sunday.

[Native Jovian]

Damn, you're in one of the nice places, Jovian.

Yeah, I'm actually working in the hotel -- they're comping the room. I sure as hell wouldn't be staying here on my own dime, but one of the perks of working in the hospitality industry is that you get to stay in nice places.

I'd be down to grab dinner on saturday or sunday.

Saturday's probably a wash, as I'm scheduled to be updating their server that night (yaaaaay), but I'd definitely be up for something on Sunday. Anyone else in the area be able to make it out to the area Sunday night?

[Mirby]

I would be able to hang out, but I'm also broke at the moment so there's that too.

[Mazedude]

Oof. Found out that I won't be able to make this conference after all. Shoot. Sorry to get your hopes up folks; turns out the higher ups where I work took too long to get back to me about this and now things are either filled up, unavailable, or too expensive. Which kinda makes me grumpy since I brought this up back in freakin' January. Grumble grumble.

I'll make it out there one of these days! In the meantime if y'all do a hangout anyways, have a drink for me.

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Saturday's probably a wash, as I'm scheduled to be updating their server that night (yaaaaay), but I'd definitely be up for something on Sunday. Anyone else in the area be able to make it out to the area Sunday night?

I seem to have come down with something; I'm going to have to skip this

[Native Jovian]

Man, looks like no one can make it. Well, like I said, I'll be in town 'til Friday, so if anyone wants to hang out let me know. At the rate things are going, I'll have to come back to this site anyway, so who knows?

[Bahamut]

Doh, I forgot - I could've been down for dinner yesterday evening, and it would've beaten waiting at SFO for 6 hours for a midnight flight out .

[Native Jovian]

BAHAAAAAAA!

*fist shake*

[Native Jovian]

So, I've got one more night in town before I'm out of here. Any locals have suggestions for something in the vicinity of Union Square I should check out?