Minutes of Meeting #1520 Monday, September 30, 2019 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-ish pm - with extra 'ish' 19 people attended We established a party jar The minutes of meeting 1519 were accepted as 'the best news from the internet' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $21.75 in the regular jar & $22.75 in the party jar the VP had nothing fannish to report the President had nothing fannish to report ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dave C announced that he got paid for being sideswiped by the Amazon van REVIEWS: John O reviewed 'Ad Astra' in IMAX as the gravity was pretty, no matter HOW bad the plot was, the main character was unlikable & belief could not be suspended - highly -not- recommended; Chris O also did not like it, various other folk also did not like it, Gerry punned 'Bad Astra' Dave C reviewed 'The Coldest War' by Ian Tregillis as the 2nd in a trilogy [book 1 = 'Bitter Seeds', book 3 = 'Necessary Evil'] as it's a fairly good read [evil] Kevin reviewed 'Fetch' by Dave O'Neill as also a 2nd book in a series, fun and highly recommended Fred reviewed 'Radicalization' by Cory Doctorow as a book of 4 novellas and he enjoyed it we did auctions we adjourned at 8:32 Rumor of the week was 'Bad Astra' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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