Minutes of Meeting #1792 Monday, January 20, 2025 Trey Haddad, President Ken Patterson, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary meeting held online AND meeting live at Parktown Pizza [at Meridian & Hillsdale in SJ] https://www.parktownpizza.com
***NEW & improved*** ZOOM Meeting Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcld-6rpjgvGtIgLOOMifWVLgfj9p19Xtim Called to order at 8:03 pm 10live/8online beings attended the meeting The minutes of meeting 1791 were accepted as 'exhausted but happy' Proxy Treasurer's report, we have money: Regular: $15,805.32; Party: $230.58 [& +124.10 more over the live meetings, up thru 1789b = transferred to the treasurer] Money can be sent to salve guilt via Paypal - sent to = [email protected] the VP had nothing fannish to report the President had nothing fannish to report. He did say 'hi' to Steven, visiting us for the first time. The Sports Committee was contacted by the SJ Giants & is investigating dates to attend games ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yochanan announced that Jan 24-26 will see a CreationCon held - Creation Entertainments StarTrek to San Francisco will be at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame January 24-26. see = creationent.com/cal/st_sf/index.html Gerry & Valerie will be there. and he announced that it is the anniversary of Deforest Kelly's birthday, who died in 1999 Ken announced that this Friday is the 4th Friday of the month, so there will be a meeting of the Legion of Rasselon live in person at the Dennie's on Bascom in Milpitas on Abbott Rd, near the 880 freeway, at 7:30pm - wear a mask - for more info check their Facebook page Reviews: Lisa reviewed this last weekend's FurCon, wherein she had a good time. She enjoyed herself, but found that the party floor was very lame this year - too much alcohol, loud music and too little conversation. Sadly, the furry parade was cancelled for security reasons, but most of the panels were good, the dealer's room was huge - as usual - and the art show was good. Harold also had a good time, spent almost solely in gaming Yochanan reviewed the series 'Fear the Walking Dead' - all 8 seasons - as overall pretty good, but the last season being not as good. Overall he recommends the entire series, if you like the subject matter. see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_the_Walking_Dead and he reviewed 'Union of Salvation' from 2019, seen on Youtube as a somewhat dense movie that he had to go to Wikipedia to read up on in order to understand what he had seen. Recommended if you like historicals & seen in Russian with English subtitles. see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Salvation_(film) and see = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8769146/ and he also reviewed 'Skeleton Crew' as very enjoyable and Jude Law was amazing, with excellent special fx & he liked it a lot. Rick agreed. see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Skeleton_Crew and he also reviewed the Pinnacles National park as astoundingly beautiful and Wow, what a hike. Highly recommended Rick reviewed the 2nd season opener of 'Severance' - seen on Apple TV - as claustrophobically wonderful and he recommends it highly. see = https://tv.apple.com/us/show/severance/umc.cmc.1srk2goyh2q2zdxcx605w8vtx?mttn3pid=Bing%20Ads&mttnagencyid=a5e&mttncc=US&mttnsiteid=143238&mttnsubad=OUS2019927_2-77859381480738-c&mttnsubkw=1245747254091091__7hjuwvBU_&mttnsubplmnt=_adext_ and he reviewed 'Silo' seen on Amazon TV, as the 2nd season closer was a humdinger with a cliffhanger at the end. He recommends seeing both seasons & states that he believes it is highly likely that the full series will be made see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_(TV_series) BrandX reviewed a series on Netflix, 'Cyberpunk 2077, Edgerunners' as worth checking out and very sf-nal as it explores some interesting ideas & very much recommended see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk:_Edgerunners Robin reviewed visiting Egypt, the country, as it's a very large country that has been the setting for many sf & fantasy projects. She found the climate of Cairo to be rather California-like, with Nubia being tropical. She found the haggling culture to be quite different & the people to be very friendly. She felt quite safe there. She highly recommends Egyptian cotton, but does not recommend getting appendicitis - although she was taken care of excellently well. She also highly recommends getting travel insurance. She also commented that 'pyramids are HUGE!' There were comments & follow-ons. Rick commented that Egyptians loved that when he was there he tried to learn Arabic and also that he loves cats. and the rumor of the week was = 'We remember 2 doctors todays: King & McCoy, may their memories for a blessing' we adjourned at = 8:47pm -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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