Minutes of Meeting #1816 Monday, July 7, 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
And online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83807383506?pwd=VnNNTXJ1YXlLS0RQVVB2VERXUTQ2dz09 Called to order at 8 pm 9live/8online beings attended the meeting The minutes of meeting 1815 were accepted as 'airmail last week's minutes' Proxy Treasurer's report = Regular: $15,805.32 Party: $230.58 Money can be sent to salve guilt via PayPal - sent to: [email protected] Though we have accrued $145.59 since the resumption of live meetings. the VP had nothing fannish to report the President had nothing fannish to report no old or new business ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lisa announced that a Hamiltunes sing-a-long will be offered on Saturday, July 26 & Saturday, August 30 that will be really fun see = https://true52.org/mc-events/hamiltunes-sing-a-long/?mc_id=560 & she announced that there will be a Regency Jane Austen Dance on Saturday, August 9 see = https://true52.org/mc-events/jane-austen-dance-2/?mc_id=559 & she announced that she brought flyers for Maker Nexus see = https://www.makernexus.org/ Valerie announced that about 40 of her e-books are free through July see = https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/valeriefrankel Reviews: Yochanan reviewed 'The Phoenician Scheme' by Wes Anderson as somewhat tedious and rated 'C'. He does not recommend it see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phoenician_Scheme and Yochanan reviewed a talk with slideshow at Stanford last week about the Rubin Observatory as it was outstanding. There was standing room only attendance & he really enjoyed it. Rani agreed that the lecture was exceptionally good, recommending Stanford's entire lecture series & Keith enjoyed the technology that was described, thinking it's 'really cool stuff' see = https://kipac.stanford.edu/ also = https://kipac.stanford.edu/events/calendar and Yochanan reviewed 'From the World of John Wick: Ballerina' as pretty good, especially if you like action movies, worth matinee see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballerina_(2025_film) Lisa reviewed a sf con, BayCon plus Westercon that she enjoyed. She found it relatively well-attended, there were good parties and good panels & she enjoyed the filking. She plans to attend next year. Yochanan also attended and had a marvelous time, commending the panels and media guests. He will also be attending next year. Valerie found the con very nice & commended the Afro-Futurism Lounge as a fun space. Keith mentioned there was a poet GoH and he also enjoyed the con. Rani thought it was nice that the con had something for everyone and really enjoyed the short films program see = https://baycon.org/ and Lisa reviewed the restaurant where BayCon was held as she blames the hotel management completely for it being understaffed with really slow service - not having received ANY food on one visit and only having 1 person serving during rush periods. Yochanan walked 2 blocks to get really good food, recommending that & Kennita pointed out the hotel demanded that the restaurant staff take their mandatory breaks during the main meal times. and the rumor of the week was = 'Over the weekend there were reports and retorts and explosions as the 4th was celebrated vigorously' we adjourned at = 8:26pm there were no auctions -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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