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'


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