JULY MEETING NOTES

Howdy Spirits,

It seems like I have to apologize for "this late post" every single post so in order to avoid more of the same verbose, repetitive, wordy, excessive, useless, superfluous, tautologous redundancy, I just won't apologize this time. I spoil you. Note: I had to refer to a thesaurus for all those fancy words. The business portion of this meeting was short, therefore this post will be short as well. Just one more gift for you from the generous benefactor Baron.

Old Business:

Club President, and local business judge Deuce came in with her verdict of the shirt printer dude which has been giving us grief. The verdict: GUILTY!! No second chance for him! Reasons she gave for coming to her decision included: poor service (i.e. did not ever fulfill the order and just gave excuses for several weeks) and no offer of a discount after the poor service. He apologized and asked her for her business again. But IMHO, that's not nearly enough. He sent a message that our little club and little shirt order wasn't important enough for him to get to like all the other more important groups with more important money. So an apology must come with a discount and promise not to disrespect us in the future. So in the end he lost our business. Our unworthy money will go to another business, along with all our future plans like bags, trophies, gold watches, iPhone cases, hats, beer labels, wine labels etc. But after all the stress and heartache Deuce endured up to this point, it was best that Archimedes and I were given the task of getting the shirts done (at a different location of course. Of course). There was my movie quote from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. And I'm 73% sure I've used that one already. Oops. Duece may not have tolerated anymore stress from the shirts. More on the shirts in the August post FYI.

The Pinterest Recipe board is up and running. Everyone please continue to post the recipes that you made for each meeting, with one big exception: spinach cheese dip. There seems to be a pattern forming of failed spinach cheese dip recipes. Although, Indy's wasn't bad IMO. She will say it was too dry but at least it still looked and tasted like a proper cheese dip. That sad creation I made at the August meeting was more like a mixture of a mulched grass omelet and those crispy rice cake things. I'm not even sure if it is supposed to be a cheese dip or more like a quiche. And I have no desire to ever find out. That is something that would be a colossal waste of my not very important time. I would even read a T.C. Boyle book or make a phone call into my bank's call center before I try that recipe again, if that gives you any perspective. But now I'm wondering if one of us should try a new spinach cheese dip each meeting now until we find a winner. It's almost on the verge of joke status. Will we ever find the right one? But anyway, back to the original point, we have our Pinterest recipe board and we can continue to pin our recipes to it.

We also created another Novel Spirits Pinterest board, this one for pictures. It is private board to be shared only with members since it has pictures of our actual identities and faces. "Keep it secret, keep it safe." That was Diesel's quote, I don't want to try to steal credit for her stuff. So maybe she is getting in on the book/movie quotes too. Well done Diesel.  I just had an idea regarding our secret identities etc: wouldn't it be funny if we were a group of super heroes in a comic series? We could be like the Avengers or Justice League or Watchmen except we would be hilarious. We'd have super powers and still save the day and all but we'd just take a very round-about, totally unnecesary, crazy and funny way to get there. I'm sure hilarity would ensue.

Deuce changed her second book submission to The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick. As of July, we are down to four books until we all resubmit again. And I have a special surprise bit of news for you all but it will have to wait until the August post. But I'll give you a hint, it is related to the new theme I changed the blog into. Suspense!

New Business:

None. Well dag.

By the way, the club is all out of money now. Take care now, bye bye then

Baron