Minutes of Meeting #1628
Monday, November 15, 2021

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held online, in exile

ZOOM Meeting Registration link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqcuqorDMsHtTgbbD44ZgG2WzrVGkr6pnX

Called to order at 8:02 pm
14 various beings eventually attended

The minutes of meeting 1627 were accepted as 'tossed over our shoulder'

the Treasurer report is that he had a 2nd job interview today & the
treasury is status quo & we have money =
Regular: $15,737.77;    Party: $230.58
Money can be sent to salve guilt via Paypal - sent to = dwgalla...@gmail.com

the VP had nothing fannish to report

the President had nothing fannish to report

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Craig announced that there will be a partial lunar eclipse this Thursday,
best viewed before sunrise Friday

Yochanan announced that Robert Baker, a writer for Dr Who & other things,
died 2 weeks ago & announced that the new 'Animaniacs' are back for season
2 on Hulu

Gerry announced that science fiction writer Jim Fiscus died last week &
announced that he & Gayle are participating from a hotel in Portland

REVIEWS:

Lisa reviewed her new computer, a modern HP, as everything looks and sounds
good & she's having fun with it

John O reviewed watching 'brain dead movies', starting with 'The Knights of
Badassdom', a horror comedy, as that it hits the low bar it set for itself
& is a bunch of silly fun & then reviewed the latest Honor Harrington book,
'To End in Fire' by David Weber and Eric Flint & is -not- the book to start
reading the Honorverse series with, a little slow to start with & otherwise
highly recommended & Gerry commented that the Royal Manticoran Navy was in
force at OryCon & for more information about them check https://trmn.org/

Yochanan reviewed 'Last Night in Soho' as a great movie & he likes it and
says it is really, really good & worth full price.  Then he reviewed a
book, 'Slaughterhouse 5' by Kurt Vonnegut as interesting & non-linear &
recommends it - with Craig commenting that it is one of the great anti-war
books & he loved both it and the movie made from it.  Gerry also enjoyed
the movie & felt Vonnegut did a better job on interstellar travel then Star
Trek did.  Then Yochanan reviewed a book by Nancy Kress, 'To Steal Across
the Sky', as beautiful and heart-felt & he liked it a lot & recommends it

Gerry & Gayle reviewed OryCon as smaller, but live and in-person & a great
deal of fun.  He warned that we will have to wait 2 years for the next one,
until 2023.

Howeird reviewed his latest cat rescue which took about 20 minutes & she
bit his finger in 2 places & is a very paranoid kitty.  Her name is
'Jade'.  The bite got infected, so he visited the local emergency clinic
where he eventually got antibiotics & later, a tetanus shot.  There was
then excitement as Animal Control visited him, but that everything is going
well & his finger is healing well.
everything worked out well.  Howeird recommends this site
https://indoorpet.osu.edu/cats  for everything you want about to know about
kitties

Trey wished Howeird a happy birthday

Ken reviewed Palo Alto Players performance of 'The Revolutionists', a play
set during the French Revolution, as it was very enjoyable to watch & to
have an evening out to see live theatre.  He says they will soon be doing
live streaming, showing live theatre; check PAplayers.org & he recommends
them

we adjourned at 8:46 pm

and the rumor of the week = 'A man's best friend is his K9 (or Gromit as
the case may be).  Thanks, Bob

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