Meeting 1125 February 20, 2012 Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 Fwy), Sunnyvale
Began at 8:02 pm with Valentines 16 people attended We birthday auctioned off Joni for $6.00 to Jo We established a SFF Translation awards jar The minutes of meeting 1124 were accepted as 'almost commentary free' the Treasurer proxy report was that at meeting 1124 we took in $6.00 in the regular jar & $18.00 in the party jar The VP ... scarpered The President had nothing fannish to report [tall] Kevin displayed the 16 page collated Hugo nomination report Announcements: Fred announced that there's a con coming up - Potlatch 21 in Seattle at the Best Western this weekend, Feb 24-26 Bradford announced that he had a positive review of his book on Amazon.com [from Chuck] Reviews: Jo reviewed a big pistol-gripped LED 1000 lumen flashlight from the Stanley 2M series that cost $23.00 - as very bright & directional and worth more than full price Diane reviewed 'Wasteland of Flint' by Thomas Harland as a good, interesting read Fred reviewed 'Fire on the Mountain' by Terry Bisson as interesting alternate world sf Howeird reviewed subscribing to Amazon's prime 2nd day shipping [$70/year] as it has some interesting perks to go along with it & is maybe worth full price I reviewed a Youtube filk of Howeird singing a Frank Hayes song = 'When I was a Boy' a pretty darned good Joni reviewed the Vampire Diary series as 'she recommends flee' We did auctions we adjourned at 8:40 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'Newt Gingrich now regrets he did not try to buy a Hugo voting block' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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