Yesterday was an SFSFC Board of Directors meeting, of which I am currently the corporate Secretary. Among the various items of business was the need to elect directors for three year terms commencing January 1, 2025. SFSFC currently has thirteen directors elected for three-year terms in groups of 5/5/4. This year was the group of 4, and my own seat ( Read more... )

This morning was a regular meeting of the SFSFC Board of Directors. Most of us in the meeting had multiple balls in the air, and we managed to get through the agenda fairly quickly. As I'll be gone for a while. I concentrated on getting the minutes draft out today, although it's unlikely the minutes will be online until late August as we need to ( Read more... )

My alarm went off just before midnight so I could get ready for Lisa and me to go to WinCo in South Reno for a major shopping expedition. The store was, as usual at that hour, mostly empty except for the throngs of staff restocking shelves. Unlike when we go there mid-afternoon, there's rarely a wait for check out. We got home around 4 AM, unloaded ( Read more... )

Among the various things coming due nearly simultaneously was today's SFSFC Board of Directors meeting. I'm the Secretary, so I have more than just attending the meeting to deal with. I got so distracted with NASFiC and the Canada trip and then Worldcon, I forgot to actually finish the previous meeting's minutes until this past week. I did not want ( Read more... )

I have lots of things that need to get done, much of which need to happen before we leave for Loscon/Westercon (we'll leave the day before Thanksgiving), and yet I can't seem to pull myself together to do much of anything. This darn congestion in my head means I'm having trouble thinking straight. Between SFSFC, Westercon, and preparation for ( Read more... )

Today I had two long online meetings. At 11 AM was an SFSFC Board of Directors meeting, which was mostly routine, but there was a lot of routine. We still have four standing committees (a Worldcon, a Westercon, a Costume-Con, and a Worldcon Agent) active, and we're in the process of setting up new ones. Our board membership for this meeting was ( Read more... )

This morning and early afternoon, I put together the SFSFC board meeting minutes, which is complicated because the corporation has four standing committee, each of which has reports that need to be incorporated into the minutes. I sent them out to the directors for comments, and if there are no objections by the time I get back from Montreal, I ( Read more... )

Today, both of the non-profit corporations on whose boards I sit (CanSMOF and SFSFC) met. Fortunately, they didn't meet at the same time ( Read more... )

Today started very promisingly and ended badly. It could have been worse, though.

( Collecting the Astro )

Tomorrow I have back-to-back meetings of the two non-profit corporate boards on which I sit: CanSMOF followed by SFSFC. The first one will mostly be about the Winnipeg NASFiC Bid (I paid for their ads in Westercon 74's publications) and the second one I expect will spend a fair bit of time discussing Westercon 74 (I've turned in a long report about ( Read more... )