Minutes of Meeting #1451 Monday, May 21, 2018 Trey Haddad, President Ken Patterson, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at the Black Bear Diner, Milpitas
Called to order at 8 pm 20 people attended we established a party jar The minutes of meeting 1450 were accepted as 'blanket acceptance' the Treasurer reported that we took in $1.00 in the regular jar & $0.75 in the party jar the VP had nothing fannish to report the President had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee reported that the BASFA outing occurred to PacBell Park for the May 18 Giants vs Rockies game - that the Giants lost & turnout was disappointing. Then Ken reported that tickets for the BASFA outing to the Harry Potter night San Jose Giants game are being handed out - Email [email protected] for more information ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ken announced that this Friday is the Legion of Rassilon meeting; 7:30 pm at the Denny’s in Campbell, near the Pruneyard on Bascom Debbie announced that Baycoin is this weekend & there will be parties; Chris O followed, saying that they can use help to put on the Worldcon party Carole announced that Balticon is this weekend Ric announced that he's in charge of the Worldcon charity auction & is looking for donations - benefitting the Altzheimer Association of Northern California & Nevada Lisa announced that Costume Con will be in SJ in 3 years REVIEWS: 'Deadpool 2' was reviewed as generally a fun movie. enjoyable and that Domino was great, worth full price Randy reviewed 13 episodes of Netflix 'Baby Boss Back in Business as humorous for adults & kids both Bill reviewed going to CostumeCon as there were nice costumes there, he enjoyed the panels he saw & was glad he went, then Carole followed, saying she also enjoyed the con, but was on several panels and missed panels that she wished she could have seen John O reviewed getting his knee replacement surgery at the San Leandro Kaiser Orthopedic Surgical Unit as it was done on time & there were no complications & he has nothing but praise for his doctors & nurses, highly recommended & then reviewed seeing Weird Al in concert last Saturday as the Fox Theatre is recommended if you have mobility issues & that the show was terrific Lisa reviewed the 'Princess Bride' sing & quote-a-long as she had a lot of fun - & Ken mentioned that this next weekend will show 'Grease' Vikas reviewed his first live professional baseball game - the BASFA outing to see the Giants - that AT&T Park is lovely, the Giants lost & he got a Star Wars Giants t-shirt Dave G reviewed the HBO adaptation of 'Farenheit 451' as he's still processing it, but is not sure it worked - and rates it as 'wait for cable' Fred reviewed seeing Maker's Faire in San Mateo as he had a good time Trey reviewed 3 books - 'Neogenesis' by Steve Miller & Sharon Lee as another in the Liad series comedy or manners and he enjoyed it; then reviewed 'Under a Sugar Sky' by Seanan McGuire - the 3rd book in the Wayward Children series - as it was entertaining & reviewed Andy Weir's 'Artemis' as an interesting science fiction heist story & the character was a star in bad decisions theatre, worth paperback we had auctions we adjourned at 9:02 Rumor of the week was that 'Haven't seem the Royal Wedding, no spoilers please ' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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