Attending were: Charlie B., Chris B., George W., John H., Kathleen B., Keith S. and Mark T. Quite a crowd.
President Charlie steered us immediately to the business side of the meeting which was nominations for officers and the choosing of a family oriented venue for our December meeting. We nominated all the current officers to continue in the current capacity. No officer objected. We eventually chose December 16, 6:30pm at the Korean Grill in the China Center located at the west intersection of Lamar and Kramer. That settled we moved on to social news.
Kathleen has finished her nursing care training starting on a new job up near Parmer & MoPac. Sarah has official quit Conan's and is full time with the Day Care where she has been working part time. A while back she moved in with couple of friends in an old house some where not too far south of the Boas homestead. Life move on.
Mark lifted the lid a little bit on what Oceaneering has been having him work on. "Mostly short term things that needed assistance". However, he is traveling to near the Bay of Fundy. Near as I can make out this is where the simulation business that Mark was so engrossed in got sold to. I assume he is going there as a consultant to get them up and running... instead of figuring it all out for themselves.
Keith told us about his visit to see Sergei in Monterrey, CA and the some of the sites he took in. Sergei is happy and involved in more language training that should take him through the first part of 2011.
Humorously, Charlie had ordered an artichoke pizza to meet his diet, but Chris arrived back at the table with news that there was an artichoke pizza on offer for use buffet diners. Immediately, Charlie sighed, saying that could only mean somebody misread his order, screwed up, and HIS order is being remade (and perforce delayed), all which accrues to our luck, since we buffet hounds NEVER get offered anything so exotic. Indeed, before the masses found out about it, I got on over there for a slice. Tasty!
When the meeting broke up at 8pm I asked John about progress on the Kim and offered my help with generating a schematic of whatever part I could help with. Pratt & Whitney has a policy of use your yearly vacation or lose it, so I'll be free of 40hrs per after the second week in December. John confessed he did have the Kim out in the truck in case the meeting dulled down, but it hadn't. We stood in the parking lot talking about the efficacy of breaking the schematic job in to manageable pieces so the whole project wouldn't just sit waiting for that looong stretch of time to work on (that never comes). John also mention that he bought (won?) a rare Commodore computer that had been aimed at overseas markets, but had a few made with American highlights, but I'll report more on that after getting details at the December meeting.
I'll be leaning on members to RSVP for December 16, because the Korean Grill is not a large establishment and I need to warn them and decide on table arrangements.
