Well, hello again Spirits, it has been quite a while hasn't it? So just to get caught back up real quick: Happy Halloween, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Birthday Deuce, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Birthday Chief, Happy MLK Jr Day, Happy Birthday Indy, Happy Valentine's Day, Happy Birthday JB, and Happy Presidents Day Weekend! I hope I didn't miss anything. I should really make greeting cards for Hallmark. I can really streamline cost savings and grow their profit margins. It kind of reminds me of the Colonel in CATCH-22 who wrote the same standard letter to every person back at home: Dear Mr. Mrs. Miss. Ms. father, mother, husband, wife...etc.
Well let me try to catch us up on the business portions of the past few months' worth of meetings. Let's see, there was probably some chastisement here and there, some food being eaten, some wine being drunk (drank?), some discussion of books, and some fires. I can remember fires at both Indy's lodge and Archimedes' and my castle (in the fireplaces I mean). Here's a few highlights from the past few months:
Deuce came through in the clutch with a winning spinach dip.
Something about chastisement for Baron and Archimedes for not updating blog. I won't waste your time with all the minutiae about all that. Blah, blah, blah, ciencia, ciencia, ciencia, Grande! Well, now I've certainly diverted your attention away from our chastisement by confusing you with that random quote. So here's the story on that: one day, a long time ago, we decided to watch a movie in which we were very familiar, in Spanish. And we are very familiar with the movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, as we have watched it over 34 times I'd bet. So we just turned it on the Spanish option and watched the movie to see if we could understand anything at all. The answer to that question was a definite "no" but it was hilarious none-the-less. So anyway, to sum up all this ridulocity (not sure if that's a word) I just provided you with a Spanish quote from the movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs in order to distract you from chastising us for neglecting the blog. Ha!
Indy didn't provide us with an "Off the Grid" segment; JB and Cat failed to provide us Italy pictures at some point. Wow Spirits, we are just dropping the ball all over the place.
I see a note that Chief discussed how he just finished POINT BLANK by Anthony Horowitz (same dude who wrote MORIARTY that we read). POINT BLANK was the second book in that series, which is funny because now we are almost finished with the ninth book in the series. My how time flies when you're a lazy blogger right???? Details.
We had a discussion about providing more of a standard to our book rating. Indy, who is always on the ball with reading and preparing, gave a tentative standard of criteria to rate books: 1/3 based on the skill of writing, 1/3 based on the story and characters, 1/3 on entertainment and education/enlightenment.
And here is another legendary note from Diesel, without any alterations: "Baron then attempted to shed in the fire." Classic Diesel? Capital work, simply Capital!! No need for me to try to improve on that at all.
Deuce proposed downsizing the amount of food that was prepared and brought to the book club meetings. Baron subsequently started throwing furniture, appliances and children across the room in a John McEnroe style tantrum for the ages. If not for the raw strength and cat-like relexes of Archimedes and the rest of the group, poor Deuce may have been seriously injured. However, after Baron was restrained in a straight jacket and Hannibal Lecter-like hockey mask, the group unanimously agreed on the following law: only the host for each meeting prepares the food, a simple, light meal. All the others may bring drinks (that would have been too much for Baron). So it is said, so let it be done.
Since this is getting long, I'll stop this and give you a version 2 for the remaining missing meeting notes. I hope to have us back up to speed by the day after tomorrow. Meeting was changed to Saturday btw, take care now, bye bye then
Baron
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