Minutes of Meeting # 1479
Monday, December 3, 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 15 people in attendance.
A party jar was established
The Minutes of meeting #1478 were posted online prior to the meeting and were
accepted as: Yeah, we got it.
Treasurer Report
#1478
Regular $0.25
Party $11.50
Total
Regular $15,422.42
Party $2.99
The Vice President welcomed Craig who found us on Meetup, but otherwise had
nothing fannish to report.
The President was MIA with the Secretary
New Business
Polled the group for who may be in attendance on 12/24 & 12/31
Poll1 Poll2
12/24: 6/17 5/6
12/31: 0/17 0/9
We still need to let our hosts know that attendance may be light to
non-existent.
Announcements
Jerry
She’s performing in the Dance-Along Nutcracker this weekend in at the Yerba
Buena Gardens Center for the Performing Arts in San Francisco. This year is
Harry Potter themed - Clara Potter and the Elder Baton!
sflgfb.townalive.com/season-events/2018-dance-along-nutcracker/
<http://sflgfb.townalive.com/season-events/2018-dance-along-nutcracker/>
Beth & JC
K is now a legal adult as of 12/1, DJ will be in 6 weeks.
Debbie
She is now the City Clerk for the city of Saratoga. Terrified & Excited. More
responsibility, work and (yay) pay! She still can’t do marriages, as Saratoga
doesn’t do them.
She’s a year older too.
Gearld
Russian manned space program took three cosmonauts to the International Space
Station.
SpaceX put 64 small satellites up this weekend. The booster landed on the drone
ship (3rd mission for this booster). Done from the west coast. 19th launch this
year for SpaceX
JohnO: Most of the satellites were small 2”sq cubes from HS and College classes.
DaveC
Christopher J. Garcia wishes to hold ConJose2.
Ken
He and Jerry won’t be here next Monday (12/10).
Ric
On Wednesday, December 12 Fanboy Planet will have live show/holiday party at
7Stars at 7pm. Come on by. Watch on FB.
At Smofcon it was announced that evilKevin will be running the Masquerade at
the Dublin Worldcon in 2019.
Reviews
JC
Saw RalphWrecks the Internet. Cute. Good for a sequel. Plausible reasons for
the characters to go out on the WWW. Good, not better than first. No pillows
from Beth. Go see it (especially if you’re a fan of the first film.)
Harold: Sit through the credits. Lots of fun icons, and a cookie at then end.
ChrisO: Liked the Disney Princess.
Went to Heroes & Villains/Walker Stalker con. Felt twitchy going back to the
McEnery so soon after Worldcon. It was 60-70% horror in the Dealers room. Lots
of Autographs. Took about an hour to walk around the dealers room. Went to the
Stephen Amell panel. Girl with a Davros wheelchair. Lots of cool mashup -
Freddie Mercury Kruger, was the best. The Fast Food Avengers were there.
Beth: got Stephen Amell’s autograph, and hung out at wine party with him.
JohnO: Also went. Felt smaller. Went to a couple panels (Stephen Amell and a
Walking Dead one…) Cosplay contest (Bob’s Burger family costume, and a Snow
White-trash). Followed up with a visit to 7Stars for dinner.
JohnO
Kindle Self Published: Witches Bites series by Stephanie Foxe. Read first two
books (there’s four now) Urban fantasy. Short, entertaining, not deep. Fun
ride. Recommend. Witches, Vampires, Werewolves (oh my!)
amazon.com/Stephanie-Foxe/e/B075XRPSMB/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
<http://amazon.com/Stephanie-Foxe/e/B075XRPSMB/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1>
Gayle
Listened to Terry Gross’ interview with Bohemian Rhapsody star. Interesting, go
listen
npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2018/11/21/669706989/fresh-air-for-nov-21-2018-bohemian-rhapsody-star-rami-malek
<http://npr.org/>
Ric
Went to Smofcon. Enjoyed it. Hung out with people who are normally working
cons. Was in Santa Rosa. Liked the town. Flamingo Hotel was walking distance
from several restaurants. The Peanuts museum is in town (lots of Charlie Brown
stuff around). evilKevin was interviewed. Nice relaxing positive con. Played
Jackbox in the evening, and drank.
Lisa: Was there as well. Great fun. Dinner mixers, topic discussion at
restaurants. Enjoyable. Real jelly doughnuts for Chanukah. Interesting panels
and information.
DaveC: Also there. Enjoyed panels. His team was traunced in the If I Ran the
Zoo Game. Worth full price.
Catching up on Walking Dead. Andrew Lincoln’s last episodes. If you’ve stopped
for a while, have a look at this season. Talking Dead announced 3 Walking Dead
related movies.
Lisa
Went to Loscon. Smaller than before. Successful Harold Memorial Party. Likes
the con, hopes for better publicity to attract members.
DaveC: Also at Los Con, as a dealer. Sales were alright. Next year’s chair is
already publicizing 2019! loscon.org/46/ <http://loscon.org/46/>
Happy Chanukah!
We had an auction
Meeting adjourned at: 21:19 and the rumor was: Garcia ConJose.
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