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Meeting 4.0

April 5, 2009

Preamble

There was much milling about and such, as there always is, food was eaten, coffee was drunk. Matt showed up a half hour early and was dispatched to get Half and Half. It was succesfully got, then we settled down to business.

We're Fooked!

First Meghan told us we were all going to die, in the event of DOOOOM we will meet at the brewery.

Yard Sale in Hollywoods

Yard Sale! We will meet at 6! Start at 7! Vaughn will bring tables. Figuring out how to get all our crap to Jeff and Meghans. If you want to bring stuff over, call Jeff.

After one hour and fifteen minutes, Caleb and Sara show up.

Jeff will do signage, Chris will get change. Wade and Sunny will bring a money box. Dante will post shit on-line. There was some snarkiness about selling motorcycling stuff. No early-birds! Fucking early birds. Sale is going to be at Hobart and Delongpre. Or some road spelled like that. Coffee will be provided. Bring a mug. Don't use the ones we are selling, cause that's stupid. Chris will bring additional coffee. Bagels will also be brought. Bring your lunch money. Or don't, Brigid will provide lunch meets BBQ stuff. Sara's not coming. Nice effort Sara. Bring wire hangers.

To recap: We meet at 6! We start at 7! Caleb is not happy about this. He thought the whole showing up thing was optional.

At one hour and forty minutes Vaughn lumbers stumbles in. Fuckin slacker.

Budget subcomittee report!

Budget is now online and googly. Please put your expenses there. Sunny needs numbers people. Rough numbers are fine, he likes it that way. Sunny would also like some pre-paying of dues so that we can have some cash on hand to do shit with. This is universally accepted and acclaimed. Yea Sunny! We love his spreadsheet. More numbers: Caleb went over his budge last year by 100%. Nice work Caleb *applause* There is much discussion of grommeting, layers, and building a grommiting robot. Instead we will finally buy an arbor press.

Transport

We would like a crew cab truck this time. Please? Thank you. Probably not, they may only send the other ones to BM.

Oh, there was some car stuff, but I missed it. I think Chris said he was going to coordinate who was bringing their cars or something? Anyone?

More of This

More discussion of newbies and such. Man, taking notes is exhausting. Seriously, this is a lot of effort. Especially when we talk about the same stuff repeatedly. I may just copy and paste this part from the other meetings. It is also determined that if Os doesn't work out Caleb can't camp with us anymore.

But in the meantime, send caleb your tent sizes.

Again, someone buy a god-damn arbor press.

Prizes

We need a prize subcommittee. Sunny is not on it, but he has ideas. But he is not on the committee. Seriously. But here is the idea: we will get fridge magnets, punch holes into them, and put them on lanyards. Idea 2: Beer cozies. Cause nothing says white trash like a beer cozie.

Lighting

We are going to move to using different lights on the board, rope lights maybe? And use the solar lights that we used to use around the camp. So we will get two more rope lights for the board. We may need to get another solar panel. We may also combine forces with trashis solar array.

Departments Of Special Projects

Tiki bar report: Needs some work, new wheels, new misting system, bore out the cylinders and add a super-charger and that thing is fucking Bad. Ass. Anyway it will be priced out and figured out.

Art Bike/Surray - Will be disasembled for shipping. Tube steel, that sort of thing. No real plans as of yet, but they are making budgets and estimates.

Cheap hotel found, $53 bucks without AAA discount, Juliette is appearently the only person in camp without a AAA membership. Book it.

Hey look, Dante showed his ass up for once. It's a minor miracle. Kristen hasn't shown the fuck up yet. WTF is up with that? Oh apparently this is Josh's fault. What a dick. Chris called him, she will be at the yard sale, ontime and presentable.

Sweet Ass Genny

Jeff is going to hopefully get us a free genny again. Fuck that, we are going to buy one. $800, Honda EU2000i. Sweet.

Vaughn made some sort of pseudo ultra pithy comment. Then blathered a bit about a bike rack.

  Bike rack that will take like 4 2x4's.  Build a long rectangle, then fit small bits of 2x4 in the rectangle creating slats that are spaced enough apart so back tire fits in. Done.

Ok, enough of this crap, lets eat cake. Happy Birthday Chris!

Agenda

  if (meeting < yard sale) {
    discuss yard sale;
    else
      discuss yard sale success;
  }

I look at the todos and think about how swell it would be if those were discussed at this meeting.

• Shelter; Quonset/Monkey Hut subcommittee will provide a rough shopping list
• Budget: Report from Sunny

1. need rough estimates/set deadline for estimates on cost of this year's projects.
2. 'reveal' of online expense/fundraising report.
3. discuss advance/pre-payment of 'dues' to speed up reimbursement process.

• Grey Water: Subcommittee on Water Evaporation and Aquatic Sciences will develop a superior grey water system (Gray B Gon!)
• Big Stamp: Barney will attempt to handcraft our big stamp
• Board: Subcommittee on Board Construction and Reinforcement will provide shopping list for reinforcement
• Chris reserved truck?
• Save bottle caps and corks so we can possibly transform them into beautiful necklaces (ask Vaughn about expensive necklace option)
• Lighting: Subcommittee on Electricity and other Technological Magic will discuss further lighting and power

Meeting 03 - What happened?

Notes

Um...I left em at home. Really, we just watched Jeff's health deteriorate until the floor was no longer hospitable toward him and he was forced to bed.

Here they are! Disregard this pile of words:

omg f vaughn and his stupid non-note transcribing! before jeff got the plague and was put to bed he and meghan made this really AWESOME brunch! we had blueberry pancakes and bellinis and vaughn made this really spicy bloody mary in a jar that we hope wasn't meghans pee jar and wade made some serbians into a quiche. then we laughed at caleb for not being there and burned an effigy of larry harvey and di and brigid lit it on fire by doing cartwheels through a flaming hula hoop all the whilst chris got wasted and pissed in a fern (really surprised that meghan and jeff have ferns) and carl and heather made us unload another truck, "practice" they called it...julie got everyone sick, i mean she seemed like a nice girl and we are glad josh is getting laid regularly (gross) but she is clearly a carrier monkey and sunny knows how to build the dome so do we really still need di and vaughn? juliette and barney drank a lot of bellinis while tsatske and darwin displayed anti-social behavior and homo-erotic tendencies no doubt picked up from josh and jeff wasnt really sick he just didnt want to help clean up.

Regard this pile of words:

General Consensuses

A general consensus was agreed upon whereas our camp infrastructure (and the amount of shit a 5 ton can hold) truly supports 25 people. Until it makes any sense we can't really take any more than that. As it turns out, with current maybe-but-likelies, we are at 25.

Another general consensus was reached: Carl is a dick. And he sux for making contact with golf cart seller but then losing contact information thus causing us to restart the "find out who's selling the golf cart" game.

Attendance update

• Val and James wish to not be pressured into making a decision on their attendance
• Tony is a No (fuck that guy)
• Dee is also a No

The Noob Situation

Whilst we all enjoy the idea of a noob obstacle course to really prove their meddle we probably would never get off our asses to organize it.

Nothing against a noob but we have 5 of you and 5 is plenty. We're sure you'll do great.

Yard Sale

• We will get off our asses to organize this. The date is in flux as Art Walk is f'ing it all up right now.
• Location will be Meghan and Jeff's Barrio

To Do's!

Cross-posted to ToDo

• Shelter; Quonset/Monkey Hut subcommittee will provide a rough shopping list
• Budget: Sunny will acquire budgetary responsibilities
• Grey Water: Subcommittee on Water Evaporation and Aquatic Sciences will develop a superior grey water system
• Big Stamp: Barney will attempt to handcraft our big stamp
• Board: Subcommittee on Board Construction and Reinforcement will provide shopping list for reinforcement
• Chris reserving truck
• Save bottle caps and corks so we can possibly transform them into beautiful necklaces
• Lighting: Subcommittee on Electricity and other Technological Magic will discuss further lighting and power

Arrrgh! Di stole my notepad and drew Hello Kitty on it!

Travel

Current available cars and capacities (cross-posted to Travel):

• Note: all numbers include driver

• Wade +4
• Brigid +4
• Jeff/Meghan +4 (or 5)
• Truck +2
• Di +3
• Kristen +5
• Juliette +4

NEED TWO EMPTY SEATS ON THE WAY UP (for Reno pickups)

Camp Livin'

• Dome: No pillows...too costly and take up too much room
• Chores: Adding new chores to the list:

*Daily ChoreMaster 
*Nightlighter/Safety Warden
*Sous Chef
*Replacement Chef (so Caleb has a couple nights off)

• Solar lights will be used around camp area
• More tennis balls for rebar
• More rope light for board
• Pee Tent Rules:

*BYOPB
*If you miss, clean it up you filthy pig
*WetOnes may be provided in the tent but you have to dispose of your dirty wet one yourself!

For the record, I'm reading the notes Di wrote...she writes bad.

===What will be?===

• Get pissed
• Entertain Hen
• Watch Josh roll in at about noon thirty
• Start filling out the Theme Camp Form
• Agree that we're aiming for the 4:30 keyhole
• Disagree on everything else
• Discuss the noob situation
• I just learned about Bill Cosplay in Japan...wtf?
• What am I writing all this for? You asses can help.
• Report from Quonset Hut Subcommittee or previously appointed representative there-of

Meeting 02 - Rants and Rants

A summary of what transpired

• Chris hates me
• Parking sucks at Di's place, unless you park on Melrose (duh)
• Need to rectify the bad "kitten" situation from last year; "kittens" should be speedy, not sleepy, no one likes non speedy "kittens"
• Sara didn't bring mangoes (to the relief of many)
• Jeff and Meghan scored a Meghan-sized roll of duvetyne

Rants

• Everybody label your shit this year! Everything! Every fork! Every straw! Every sanitary napkin!
• We ate too late. (See below for solution)
• LATCH THE FUCKING COOLERS, thanks
• We're sick of waiting for Carl to show up...oh, hey Carl
• Subcommittee meeting on shade and tent placement mostly bitching about nothing
• Extra Subcommittee meeting on shade and tent placement thinking of launching investigation into possible so called "map flipping"
• Meghan demands that the brownie bites be moved to the opposite side of the table from her. No one seconds this motion. It does not pass.

Shit we want to do different

• We shall make a bike rack
• Caleb shall start cooking at 5 fingers to sundown this year instead of 4
• Bamboo drop down shades will actually be used for the porch this year
• TikiBar - BIG wheels, advanced water mistation system
• Dome will house only carpet, pillows and inflatable furniture (use at own risk)
• Board: Metal bits with new bolts to make it more better. Really paint the tiles hard to mask last years words. Prizes, more necklaces, big ass stamp
• Kitchen: There's a storage locker thing at the hotel that Wade might be able to get and might help organize all of our newly labeled crap
• Have a misc bin that everything gets dumped in when cleanup happens (or during pre-duststorm panic)
• Add a pee-tent in which you pee into something not on the tent itself assholes
• Subcommittee on Quonset Hut Research and Development formed, consisting of Josh and Caleb, they will report back with progress
• A vote was held on placement for next year and apparently we all want to move back to 7:30 4:30 (Carl's memory sucks) and A instead of Esplanade, who knew?

Other important notes:

• Final count of who's going by MayDay
• Meghan played tetris for the duration of the meeting and thus hardly contributed

Meeting 01 - Clean up and Whathaveyou

We done good cleaning out storage and organizing it. Now, if only the slackasses who took notes would update the inventory.