NOVEMBER 15th MEETING NOTES

Howdy Novel Spirits, this will be the slightly tardy post for the business portion of our November meeting at Indy's Lodge. That place really does feel like a lodge. It's great there.

So let's see, what kind of business did we discuss..... well everyone is caught up on dues. And our club fund is starting to swell up quite nicely. If you don't see me next meeting, and our super secret squirrel book safe mysteriously goes missing, no need to worry your pretty little heads about either of us. I'm sure I won't be sipping rum punches, and putting it all on black at a casino in the Cayman Islands with the money safely laundered away in a high-yield, tax-sheltered, anonymous account at the Cayman branch of Gringotts Bank.

I was chastised for not having a drawing ready to submit to the group but I promised to have a rough draft ready to show at the December meeting next weekend. I am at least 67% sure that will happen.

And we welcomed Gilligan to his first meeting. We were happy to have him join us and he was able to last the entire meeting without running for his life from our constant ridicule, as appears to be our custom. Our very first message to him was chastisement for not ever reading this blog. And several followed thereafter. That's how we roll around here home boy. Diesel, please pass the word that we all provide and receive that treatment so it wasn't just him. It's not him, its us, so to speak.

We voted on an idea to select a Christmas themed book (which is not on our current list) in order to discuss at our December meeting. But after a British Parliament style debate, the motion was defeated by the slightest of margins. Maybe next year but for now, we will stay the course on our current list of books to read. And we don't have that many to go either!! We've been going strong for a long time now Novel Spirits! Well done, much respect.

We also agreed to do a "dirty Christmas" or "Secret Santa" type of gift exchange at the December meeting. I'm not too clear on the rules of the game other than we'll each get a book-themed gift, no more than $10 price tag and we'll do some sort of exchange I think. I've already selected my Thomas Kinkade art book for Deuce :)

I informed the group that I changed the theme/background of the blog. "And there was much rejoicing.......  yeaaaaaa" That Monty Python quote was in honor of Douglas Adams :) Don't worry everyone, even though the look of the blog has changed, it will still have all the great substance it always has. But seriously, if yall don't like it I can change it back.

Indy has updated her "Off the Grid" again so be sure to check that out if you haven't already.

Next book was selected and it was Deuce's first one, GRAY MOUNTAIN by John Grisham. So now I think we have all had at least one book selected! That is cool! Next meeting is at Cat and JB's mountain retreat on December 13th at 2:00pm. I hope Gilligan will join us and hasn't cursed all our names and fled the country.

And for a special treat, another post will follow soon with all of our Vogon poetry which we prepared for the meeting at Indy's Lodge.

Sorry for the late post and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again next weekend for the GRAY MOUNTAIN book discussion. I'm currently about 100 pages from the end. I need to talk about this!!!!!