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melchar ([personal profile] melchar) wrote in [community profile] basfa2015-11-10 11:24 pm

Nov 2 BASFA minutes

BASFA Meeting 1318
November 2, 2015

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, 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 8 pm with talk of rain
26 people attended

We established a party jar

The minutes of meeting 1317 were accepted as 'marginal'

The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $3.50 in the regular jar & $3.75 in the party jar

The Vice President said 'yeah'

The President said 'hi' to Rob & Val Campbell, long-time BASFAns who live in Sacramento & were visiting us - and also said 'hi' to Rich, a long-time sf fan, visiting BASFA for the 1st time

Adrienne asked the sense of the meeting, if we wanted to do a gift exchange & reported that 300 were now signed up for the Meetup group

Announcements:
JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast is up once more & updating, with episode 41, part 2 now up and that his computer is finally fixed

Dave G announced that Spike the cat passed away and will be sorely missed

Adrienne announced that a new mundane con was coming up - CampbellCon will sell tickets for admission only online for $10 & announced that Mo will be the Fan GoH at Windycon 42 & announced that she is giving away left-over Hallowe'en candy

Dave C announced that he saw a turkey wandering around, so it is now offically fall

Reviews:
Bill reviewed the Ohio Valley Filk Festival as it was worth full price, including travel

Dave C reviewed 'Broken Homes' by Ben Aaronovitch, urban fantasy, as it could have been more tightly written, was still a good read and worth paperback

Adrienne reviewed a spa trip as that taking it between Sundat and Thursday is a much better deal than going on the weekend, she & Mo had a great time & she recommends it & Mo agrees, then Adrienne reviewed 'Supergirl' and enjoyed it, while Mo thought it was cute

[evil] Kevin reviewed going to a party in Las Vegas, saying that the hotel it as held in, the SLS Casino is a beautiful place, smoke free & worth full price; Andy reviewed all of its restraunts that they visited as excellent

Dave G reviewed the new 'Ashe vs the Evil Dead' as fun and worth full price - Dave C agreed

We did auctions

we adjourned at 9:18 pm

and the rumor of the week was: 'Dave also doubles as decorative background'