Called to order at 20:03
Total of 7/5 in attendance
Officer Reports:
Secretary
The minutes of meeting 1872 were accepted as: the same in all parallel universes
Treasurer
Regular: $15,805.32
Party: $230.58
Money can be sent to salve guilt via PayPal – sent to: dwgallaher@gmail.com
Though we did accrue $166.84 since the resumption of live meetings.
Vice President
The last two Mondays of August I will not be in town. There is a chance that on the 24th I will not be in a position to join remotely (that’s our travel day) but should be able to Zoom in on the 31st from WorldCon. We’ll need someone to present the Zoom for the in-person portion of the meeting on those two dates.
Also, if you haven’t received the email, Michael Wallis changed our email list over to a new service called Gaggle (the old Mailman service was discontinued by our hosting service). If you didn’t get the email, and want to be on the list, pop over to basfa.org and click “Join List” or, click here
Also, also, while I had Michael Wallis’ attention, I asked him to spin up a WordPress installation. There is a parallel site running at basfa.org/basfa. Comments appreciated, functionality requests will be entertained. The hope is to make that our primary site.
Also, also, also – there is a strong chance that the BASFA meeting on August 31 will be conducted from LA
President
Nothing fannish to report except that his lifting restrictions have been… lifted.
Committees:
None.
New Business:
None.
Announcements:
Yochanan
he thinks it is Sept 4 thru the 8 that AMC will be issuing a Star Trek popcorn bucket, check Fathom events.
Aug 21, 7-9:20 is SciFi night at the Chabot Space Center
Sept 12 will be the SJ Book Festival at the Eastridge Mall
Rick
The TV series ‘Silo‘ & ‘House of the Dragon‘ have had their season finales
Reviews
Yochanan
‘Spiderman, Brand New Day‘ as amazing entertainment & worth full price. He loved it & thinks it is one of the best Spiderman movies he has ever seen
‘That This Nation Might Live: Butterflies of Gettysburg Book 1‘ by Sandra Saidak & Thomas Saidak as a time travel novel set in the 1860s that he enjoyed & rates as worth full price. Gerry followed saying that the author is in his writer’s group and he commends their historical research
The Rosicrucian Historical Museum in SJ – as much larger than he recalled and that it took almost 3 hours to explore the place & he found the Thoth animatronic AI robot there a little creepy. He loves the crypt in the basement & considers it a world-class museum. He had a great time & highly recommend it. There was some discussion to the topic
Trey
Reviewed his hernia surgery as his procedure went very well, healing has been good and that the only problem was that Kaiser did not do a follow-up reminder until he reminded them, so he grades it as a ‘B’.
Ken
‘Star Trek Strange New Worlds‘ as the subtitle could have been ‘Dude, where’s my shuttlecraft?’ and quite light-hearted. He enjoyed it. Yochanan followed, saying he enjoyed it but that some people might not. There was some discussion of the Klingon language.
Rumor of the Week
If you don’t like this reality, make one of your own
Adjourned at: 20:49
There was no auction…
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