Minutes of Meeting # 1477
Monday, November 19, 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 20:00 with 17 people in attendance.
A party jar was established
The Minutes of meeting #1476 were posted online prior to the meeting and were
accepted as: I Saw Her Across the Smokey Room
Treasurer Report
#1476
Regular $1.00
Party $0.00
Total
Regular $~15.5k
Party $-19.51
The Vice President had nothing fannish to report.
The President was MIA with the Secretary
New Business
A small survey of the membership was taken regarding likely attendance on the
last two Mondays of the year. Those meetings are on Christmas and New Year’s
eves. Of the seventeen people in attendance, 6 people indicated that they are
likely to attend on December 24, and none of those in attendance indicated that
they are likely to attend on December 31.
We will need to let the management know that while we don’t plan to cancel our
meetings, we are likely to have attendance of low to none over those two weeks.
Announcements
The restaurant has let us know that there will be a party from Los Angeles
seated in the room at out November 26 meeting. The party has already ordered
their food and paid, so they are expected to only be there from 7 to 8 p.m.
Lisa:
LosCon this weekend LAX Marriott Friday through Sunday. A memorial party for
Harold will be on Friday night in room 1712 loscon.org <http://loscon.org/>
Carole: Will be doing four panels (two on Saturday & two Sunday)
Bill: Supposed to have a concert on Saturday Afternoon.
Bill:
The following weekend: SmofCon in Santa Rosa. smofcon.com <http://smofcon.com/>
Lisa: Will also be there.
DaveG: Check the website, take advantage of things to do outside the con.
Ken
The Legion of Rassilon meets this Friday an hour earlier at 6:30 p.m. at the
Denny’s on Bascom in Campbell. This meeting coincides with the 55th anniversary
of Doctor Who. Three episodes of the new series will be watched (Rosa,
Arachnids in the UK, and the Tsuranga Conundrum) with two episodes of the
Australian Doctor Who chat show Whovians before the meeting starts. lor.club
<http://lor.club/>
Sir Cumference returns for the second time this year on KFJC this Sunday
evening from 7 to 10 p.m. Cheesey music from 8-8:30 and old Science Fiction
radio at 9 p.m. 89.7 FM for the local radio listener, and kfjc.org
<http://kfjc.org/> for online listening.
Reviews
Atheus
Had been looking for a good swimming place, that fit his hours, and found the
Milpitas Star Aquatic Center. $40 per month and open to 11 p.m. They have a lap
pool and a small family pool, which are actually kept warm - not merely
not-cold. Day passes are available. Worth full price, especially as it’s
five-minutes from home. msta-swim.com <http://msta-swim.com/>
Lisa
Went to the 3Below’s Beauty and the Beast Sing-along. Had lots of fun. Shannon
had a tiara and a suit with bells on. Cute animated sing-along icons that
matched the lyrics. This was the live action version, which has songs from the
stage version that weren’t in the otiginal animated film. Check out their site
3belowtheaters.com <http://3belowtheaters.com/> for upcoming shows (including
Who’s Holiday, which several BASFAns will be attending on Friday, December 14.)
DaveC
Read Unsympathetic Magic by Laura Resnick. It’s the third Esther Diamond Novel.
Got bogged down with an 80 page info dump in the middle. The editor obviously
wasn’t doing their job. Didn’t finish it, but will go on to the next in the
series.
Ken
Saw Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald on Thursday. Wasn’t really
whelmed by it. A bit like Empire Strikes Back, in that it sets up the rest of
the series, but unlike Empire it wasn’t as exciting. Not worth the price of
IMAX (though it did look good in IMAX…)
Carole: A friend gave it a C-
DaveG: Better than C-. Saw it at a real IMAX theatre. It moved slowly. Thought
it was worth IMAX.
We had an auction
Meeting adjourned at: 21:02, and the rumor was: Jerry shot first
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