Meeting 944 September 1, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:02 - because Ambush Bug rocks 18 people attended a party jar was established Secretary's report: the minutes of meeting 943 were accepted as 'the soup is a lie' with 1 abstention [yes, we're looking at YOU, Chris] no Treasurer the VP is in denial and reported he's conspiring with the Unholy 3 on journeyplanet on efanzine.com ['Ambush Bug rules!] The President has nothing he could follow -that- with Announcements Barbara announced that she'll have a story entitled 'Slow Burn' in a new anthology called 'Space Sirens' [due out around Christmas] Dann announced that this week's Spookfest will feature a showing of 'Sampson and Delilah' Dave C announced that he is in love with Sarah Palin and go see Ron Paul's convention at the -other- Twin city, if you are able Lisa announced that 'big Harold lives' and he is slowly getting better and for everything else see her LJ [tall] Kevin announced that the reason for his eyepatch is that he developed labyrinthitis in his eye and he's not practicing for Sept 19 - and that thanks to [evil] Kevin he now has a parrot to go with the patch [there were follow-ons] and he is VERY grateful that Cheryl has been his seeing eye person Reviews: Chris reviewed ConXtreme, the Quickening, and found it kind of interesting - the band Silver Phoenix on Friday night was quite good, on Saturday he went back and saw there were only about 35 people there who weren't staff or dealers; he reviewed 'Tropic Thunder' as still the best movie ever made; and he had a good time at the con and thought it worth $17.50; Dave C follow-on'd that he also went to ConXtreme ['aka con-stay-they-hell-away' sayeth Andy] and felt it was not nearly as exciting as it was last year Lisa reviewed Denver Health as the food was bad, the care mediocre and St. Joseph's had real food with better doctors and real care Dave C reviewed the Sonic drive-in at Evanston Wyoming as being the kind of clean pleasant squalor found near a university pizza place and his food was . . . nice - but did not live up to his expectations [there were then Sonic location follow-ons] Stellan reviewed this seasons 'Myth Busters' as very well made and worth full price and that new on Discovery was a new show about terraforming parts of this planet and the science and engineering was not bad - Discovery Project Earth Maureen reviewed ConXtreme as Terry was very gracious to her and she made lots of money for Silicon there and ate their Dealers room and con staff and had a good time [tall] Kevin reviewed his train trip to Sacramento as the extra expense of the train was worth it - that it wasn't difficult to get a rental car at his destination and was worth full price we then did auctions: birthday auctioned off [tall]Kevin for $20.00 to Cheryl; auctioned off 2 videos for $2.25; decorations & a Tshirt for $0.50; scones for $0.25; misc stuff for $0.25; a book & tshirt for $0.50; videos and a hub for $0.25; cups for $0.75; & books for $3.00 and $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:25 And the rumor of the week was: '[tall] Kevin's next trip will be to climb the twin peaks of Mt. Kilimanjaro' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************
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