Meeting 1009 November 30, 2009
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 fwy), Sunnyvale Began 8pm - with wonderful blueberry pancakes! We established a party jar 25 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 1007 were accepted as 'derivative' & the minutes of meeting 1006 were accepted as 'lacking finger puppets' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $7.50 in the regular jar and $1.00 in the party jar no Vice President The President had nothing fannish to report as he has been a yam The Party Committee reported that he needs help with FurCon - and that there were 2 BASFA parties at SorcererCon - the ONLY parties there [and very well received] Announcements: Adrienne announced that there's a new social meeting group for 'Mystery Science 3000' Dave G announced that their next party will be next year on Jan 2 & announced that a new episode of 'Dr Who' will be filmed in Serbia Cheryl announced that there's a convention coming up - SMOFcon this weekend [evil] Kevin announced that the Imperial Snow Ball is Dec 12, 7:30 & that he might be performing [tall] Kevin announced that after this meeting he won't be back to BASFA until next year Reviews: Glenn reviewed that getting his new job with Linden Labs/Second Life as worth full price & that he really likes his new Mac desktop for it -- and then he reviewed LosCon as time was spent with family, then he spent most of the con sitting behind a table at LosCon & that the wireless at the Marriott 'sucketh mightily' & that Westercon 64 had a party there and drew great crowds, plus he [and others] had 'issues' with Programming & he got to take Dave McCarthy out to dinner; Dierdre follow-on'd to comment about other programming mess-ups Lynn reviewed SorcererCon as small and intimate and GOOD; Andy reviewed that since the con was centered around the 'city rooms' that it seemed less small than it was and the programming there was good & the BASFA parties were excellent; Dave G commented that at least one dealer came away happy; Adrienne reviewed it as small, well done and cute ['chibi-con' suggested [tall] Keven] - she really liked it; [evil] Kevin said that it was fun and full of incidents & Mo reviewed it as she enjoyed the themes and had a good time Adrienne reviewed a website as a really good place for sound tracks = www.intrada.com Harold reviewed scam emails as 'do not respond to them' & reviewed 'Monty Python, almost the truth' as funny & informative & reviewed ancestry.com as 'mark him dubious' about its accuracy [and worth free during its 2 week promo right now] Ed reviewed an sf book about an accountant as his [delightful] wife liked it and he thought it was entertaining: 'The Audit Report' by Richard Neumann [tall] Kevin relayed a review by Lisa of OryCon as 'avast ye Kumo!' and rated it as '3 grrrrs and no fish'; meanwhile, he had fun sleeping Fred reviewed the King Tut exhibit as well-organized, well put together & really worth seeing Stellan reviewed LosCon as very nice, worth full price Ken reviewed Houston Intercontinental airport as not worth full price for a 90 minute delay and several gate changes we did auctions: we auctioned off a calender for $0.50; then videos for $1.00, $0.25, $0.50; audio books for $4.00, $1.50 & $4.00, hangers for $0.25; a puzzle for $0.25; computer stuff for $0.10; then a box of stuff for $2.00 We adjourned at = 9:30 And the rumor of the week was: 'The rumors will continue until morale improves' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
_______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
