Minutes of Meeting #1443 Monday, March 26, 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 8 pm, with verve 20 people attended we established a party jar The minutes of meeting 1442 were accepted as 'Barbara laughed maniacally' the Treasurer reported that at meeting 1442 we took in $0.00 in the regular jar & $7.25 in the party jar the VP reported that Diane would be late the President had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee reported that there are still tickets available for the May 18 Giants vs Rockies game BASFA outing - see Dave G. Then Ken reported that there are still tickets available for the BASFA outing to the Harry Potter night San Jose Giants game, Friday, June 15 = $52 per person for the Martinelli’s VIP deck. Email ba...@p4tt.com if you are interested. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ken announced that this Saturday is the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival, March 31 at 7pm at Foothill college, room 5015. $5 donation to KFJC, $3 for parking (not a donation) Lisa announced that Harold is in the hospital again & is getting annoyed at his quality of care there [evil] Kevin announced that there will be the announcement of the Hugo final ballot this Saturday at 7:30pm at Seven Stars [a couple doors down from the Pink Poodle] Dave C announced that NorWesCon is this weekend Dave G announced that the Sharks won in the shootout Adrienne announced that the 10th Doctor will be at WozCon Diane announced that she has flyers for Worldcon 76 & that they will have fan tables at many conventions, such as NorWesCon & FollyCon to spread flyers among Reviews Dave Wallis reviewed 3 books 'Null States' by Malka Older as dealing with micro-democracies & a solid read; then Andy Weir's 'Artemis' as set on a lunar colony & a fun story & recommended; then 'The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter' by Theodora Goss as a good pastiche & Mo commented that she liked it, as well Bill reviewed Consonance this last weekend as a fun con with excellent musical performances, Carole said they had MEW [Mary Ellen Wessels] as a house-guest & found her lovely; Lisa commented that the con was really, really nice & she enjoyed herself Harold reviewed bad corporate behavior by AOL as they are unable to update his desktop software JC reviewed 'Focus', a Will Smith movie from last year, as it had an interesting plot, several good twists & is free On Demand on Xfinity we had auctions we adjourned at 9:01 Rumor of the week was that 'Blow Dave - blow!' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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