Everyone says i'll meet you there..or you know where i'll be..where are you?

Hi Joel!

Everyone has a different place, at a different time.  Since you drew
me for this question tonight, I'll tell you where *I* am!

Where am I?  Generally, or specifically?

Generally, I'm in a moderately sized city in the Northwest portion of
Ohio.  It's a pretty place, with a couple rivers, a bridge named for a
famous general, a couple of battlefields from the French and Indian
War,  some gorgeous wooded parks...and a minor league baseball team
made famous by M*A*S*H*'s Jamie Farr (who is a native of my hometown).
 Does that help?

A little more specifically, I'm in the far northernmost region of my
hometown, so close to the Ohio/Michigan border, that I can (and do!)
walk to Michigan to the produce market about 3 blocks away.  Fancy
some strawberries?  They're coming into season here...maybe another
week before we'll be allowed to go pick them.

A little more specifically?

Depends on when.  Right now, at 10:58PM EDT, I'm parked in what is
affectionately referred to as "The Purple Chair of Doom".  It's my
desk chair, a bright purple thing (it matches my hair. No kidding!)
that not even my kids are allowed to sit in.  If, between the hours of
9PM EDT and 3AM EDT, I tell you "You know where I'll be..."

...there I'll be!  Parked happily in "The Purple Chair of Doom",
puttering around on my computer, maybe doing research for you!

During the rest of the day, I'm wandering about my apartment, doing
the things moms usually do - you know, feed the cats (both black),
chase the children (two boys), do the laundry...check the Google
Answers server to see if there is work for me...if I tell you "You
know where to find me..."

...you'll usually find me there!

During the school year, you might find me in my childrens' school,
giving computer and internet instruction once or twice a week.  I sit
on the district's technology committee.  If I tell you "I'll meet you
there..."

...then I'll be meeting you in a one story brick building, on a quiet,
tree lined street.  Maybe we'll be teaching the latest crop of second
graders how to use Google?

Any other time, if I tell you "I'll meet you there...", I'm certainly
going to be sure to tell you where to meet me, right?  Wouldn't want
to send you someplace where you won't find me!

Let me point you to my favorite hangouts (I'm probably not supposed to
be quite so specific, but I really love my hometown, and I can't
resist the chance to show it off)...

The Toledo Zoo
http://www.toledozoo.org

The Toledo Museum of Art
http://www.toledomuseum.org

COSI - The Center for Science and Industry
http://www.cosi.org

The Toledo Botanical Gardens
http://www.toledogarden.org/

Tony Packo's
http://www.tonypackos.com

The Maumee Bay Brewing Company
http://www.toledocvb.com/maumeebay.html

The Erie Street Market
http://www.eriestreetmarket.org/

Take Me Out To The Ballgame! - The Toledo MudHens
http://www.mudhens.com/

If you ever make it to this end of the world...you'll know where to
find me.  Just look for the girl with the long, flowing, purple hair
and the big smile on her face.

Good night, Joel.  It's been a pleasure, I hope you enjoy your peek at
my hometown.

Warmest regards,

missy-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by joel1357-ga on 12 Jun 2002 21:01 PDT

It sounds like a wonderful place to live. I'm checking out the links.
With your description you might cause people to want to move to
Toledo. Do you and all the others talk??

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Clarification of Answer by missy-ga on 12 Jun 2002 21:43 PDT

Hi again!

I sure hope people would want to move here!  Do you know how much my
friends who live in bigger places tease me about living "out in the
middle of nowhere"?  "The boonies", they tell me!  The nerve! <insert
dramatic huff here>

About the others...I'm assuming you mean the other Researchers?  Yes,
*some* of us talk.  I don't know all of the Researchers, but I'm
getting acquainted with some of them slowly.  We chase each other
around the 'Net and ask opinions and advice, exhange jokes and
pictures and links to interesting articles.  We whine about the
weather when, point each other at pictures of ourselves and places we
love, and console each other when we've had bad days.  That's the way
the 'Net works...you spend a bit of virtual time with people, and you
get curious...then the e-mail starts to fly, or chats...next thing you
know, you're sitting up til some ungodly hour, chatting with someone
who lives on the other side of the world.

Since joining the team, I've gotten to talk to people from all over
the US and Canada, as well as Lebanon, South Africa, the UK, Brazil,
and Germany (my adopted country!).  It's truly a wonderful experience!

We've got a terrific team, a community of genuinely nice, witty, and
talented Researchers.  I'm really happy to be a part of that
community!

(Not to mention, it makes my kids think I'm wicked cool.)  ;)

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Clarification of Answer by missy-ga on 12 Jun 2002 23:34 PDT

...and hello once more before I wander off to the kitchen for some ice
cream before bedtime...

It occurs to me that this question might have been prompted by
mother911's offer of help in one of his comments.  Am I right?

Among the Researchers, "You know where to find me" typically means
"I'll be checking the server for new questions", and indicates that
the Researcher will be online for a while.  Was that more what you
were wondering?

If it wasn't, or you're wondering something else, do let me know!

Good night!

missy-ga <--made French Vanilla ice cream.  Needs strawberries.

Hi Joel,

I figured I'd comment because I haven't officially answered or
commented on one of your questions yet.  :)

If I said "I'd meet you there" it most likely would be in the Desert
Southwest, close to my home.

I don't drive... so it would have to be within walking distance (I can
walk miles and miles - except during our brutal summers) or within
bicycle distance -or it might even be somewhere along my bus route.

Most of the time I can be found at my computer desk... browsing the
internet, haunting my favorite message boards, or working on my
website.  I do a lot of phone consultation re: navigating the web and
the like.  I might be working on someone's website, editing, doing
research, or hosting images for my net buddies.

My two dogs (Miniature Poodles) occupy a good portion of my energy and
I can honestly say they "own me" and I'm very happy with that
situation.  It fits me well.  I'm a full-bred animal lover and have
raised everything from Cats and Dogs to Giant Green Iguanas, Hamsters,
Parrots, and Fish.

The city I'm in is one of the hottest on the planet (especially during
the summer) and I moved here about 4 years ago to officially retire,
and have never been happier.  The sun shines over 330 days a year, and
the weather is ideal most of the time.  I love to swim and enjoy my
pool.  I might tell people I know I'll meet you here, at my home and
we'll go swimming.

I love live sports and this weekend will be at a Diamondback Baseball
Game! So, I could "meet you there"!!!

About 2 hours ago I could have met you at the park near me. This
afternoon my neighbor said "I'll meet you at the park later", so after
I ate dinner I packed up my new quad roller skates, rode over to the
park to skate for an hour, then came home, and jumped into the pool.

Tomorrow morning I'm going hiking at 5:30am up Lookout Mountain... so
I could meet you there if you're into hiking at that hour of the
morning!  :)

How would you recognize me?  Well... in some circles I'd be considered
a senior citizen, so I'm not a youngster... but I'm definitely not an
old lady who is sitting in her rocking chair!  lol

Thank you Joel, for letting me share a part of my life with you...
maybe someday you'll be in my corner of the planet and "I'll meet you
there"!

tlspiegel-ga

OK i'm game...

First...your questions truly wrack the brains for details and send us
into wonderful spirals of searches that lead endlessly into the web
with discoveries that would make even Jacques Yves Cousteau envious.

You know where I will be:

Well it's simple for me really, until about 5 years ago, I would have
been behind an audio console mixing live music or trying to stay awake
during a boring speech in a 5 star hotel. If I wasn't there, it was
because I was traveling around the country babysitting rockstars while
they partied like it was 1999. I had some crazy adventures between
those two places, and with the hours I worked, that's where I would
have been.

A minor back injury and a job change later and i'm much easier to
find. I can be found at a series of computers. Four to be exact.
Number 1 is the one im sitting at now. It is a delightful machine in
my eyes. It's an amd Athalon 900 with about 3/4 gig ram in it and a
geforce 2 mx video card. More importantly for this machine, it has a
sound blaster live mp3 platinum sound card and some Altec Lansing
ATP3's for sound. I love my music and I have tons of mp3s to listen
to. The other two machines here are both amd k6 III 450's. I built
those to make a network to break and rebuild while earning my MCSE
from microsoft. They both have about 1/2 gig of ram, and one is slowly
dying I suspect. The fourth machine is at work, I work all day as a
computer geek. So, where I will be is somewhere attached to a keyboard
with some decent music on in the background and if im home, most
likely chewing on the end of a nice cigar (my only guilty pleasure)
with perhaps a lil Jack Daniels (ok ok two...but whose counting?)
snuck into some coke for a lovely evening nitecap. We call them (jack
and cokes) dirty socks around here, it's what your mouth tastes like
in the morning.

If I have managed to escape from the keyboard (read: someone has
dragged me away) I will most likely be in front of the TV, I love all
movies, it's an obsession..but a nice one.

My lovely future bride has the amazing ability to convince me to do
many insane things in her name, like going outside. Going to Disney,
and to visit friends, which I think I need to do more often if I
expect them to remember my name. Recently to get even I hauled her off
to Florida, woke her up at 5am on our anniversary and dragged her into
a hot air balloon for a ride of Orlando. When we were done I asked her
to marry me. After all, i'm a computer geek with a bad back, cranky,
tempermental and moody, she is lucky to have me right? She on the
other hand looks like Beauty and the Beast when we are in public
together. I am 6'3" to her 5'1" and i'm a large grumpy bearded freak,
and she is this tiny thin beautiful girl. How do I do it you
ask...simple...I am a font of useless knowledge. I am a terror at
trivial pursuit. I can conquer all in cartoon memories. I will out
movie quote most of America given the chance, and I can tell you right
now, hot chicks dig that. (did I mention I can sing along to almost
any song and do with regularity? but not in public)

so, that's where I will be Joel.

I hope this helps.
Mother911-ga

Hi Joel,

Just thought I'd drop in my £19.22p (It would be 2p, but inflation got
a hold).

I'll meet you there...

Well, that'd probably be in town.  Where is town?  Ah, a little place
in the heart of England.  Name of Rugby.  It's the place where some
idiot decided he didn't want to kick the ball, and so blatantly
cheated and ran with it.  Unfortunately, instead of giving him a good
thrashing, they turned it into a game, which has now got international
reach.  So, I'd probably meat you next to the clock towers, town
centre.

I could also mean to meet you in Lutterworth, just up the road from
Rugby.  It is the home of Sir Frank Whittle (Inventor of the Jet
Engine) and John Wickliffe, first translator of the Bible into the
Common English.


You know where I'll be...

Sat infront of my computer.  I'm a big computer nut, and I'll be sat
right here, in my nice leather chair, surrounded by my computing
equipment, dual monitors and the like.

Ah well, nice talking to you joel :)

LazerFX-GA