28: Meetup.com

Said I was gonna make a better effort to be somewhere other than my house all the time and I'm making good on that promise. I have a "thing" every day for the rest of this work week. Tomorrow is kinda unofficial because it might just be a stop through, depending on the crowd, but it counts (a meetup.com happy hour), then Thursday I have a bowling thing for work and Friday, speed pool (as in billiards), also a meetup.com function.

Have you heard of this? Well if ya haven't, it's a website where all these groups organize different events and whatever your interests happen to be, there is a group for it. there's singles groups, there's professional networking groups, there's techies, there's book clubs, there's film & arts stuff, there's animal lovers, there is like everything. Anything you're into, is there. There is even one called "I've always wanted to do that.... just not by myself" LOL Tell me they don't have everything LOL. I found this site the year I moved here but I never really looked at it again after the first time I checked it out. The plan was always to circle back but I never did. They send emails from time to time to let you know what's going on in a given week and I pretty much deleted it every time. This week I opened it and decided to browse around. They have some really cool events on there. Like REALLY cool. There's one happening tonight that I wish I had been aware of before today (because I'm not dressed for it) but I'm gonna be on the look out for that one to come back around. Def.

Anyway, this seems to be a really great way for people who are new to an area to meet people or get involved in things. IF you or someone you know is in that situation and doesn't really have a "network" to speak of, I suggest taking a look. It doesn't cost you anything to join the different groups, and some events are multi-group, meaning they are open to everyone, not specific to any group. All the events give you an idea of who the participants generally are too so you dont find your 40 year old ass at something a bunch of college kids are attending. It's the coolest thing I've stumbled across in a long time. Now I just gotta see what these events are like.

But give it a look. If it's not for you, it's probably a good look for somebody you know.