World's Fair of Money, Day 3
Friday was Meeting Day for me, the day on which all of the TEC meetings were held: Board of Governors Meeting, General Membership Meeting, Fellowship Meeting. The festivities started extra early for me because I got up early to print out the auction catalog I'd created on Thursday, and enjoyed some unwelcome adventures getting it taken care of. Still, I was at the Board meeting at 8 AM. This meeting ran long; a majority of our board couldn't attend in person, which meant reading their reports aloud. It, um, took time. It bit into the General Membership Meeting by about a half hour. With only an hour assigned for the Membership Meeting, this sort of put a crimp on planned activities. In the end, the Membership Meeting consisted mainly of all in attendance introducing themselves, and then the distribution of freebie packets to attendees. This last bit is always a favorite activity and always well-received. I came home with some very special stuff, including a coin designed by perhaps the youngest designer-roller in the business right now, a special elongated featuring the TEC mascot (an owl) dressed in the Red Sox uniform pressed on a Mercury dime distributed exclusively to those in attendance, making it an instant rarity.
The Fellowship Meeting was intended to be a pizza party/trading/getting-to-know-you kind of event, but due to the morning's time over-runs, it transformed into a pizza party/auction. Every item donated for the auction was sold, and I came home with some lovely items: a penny booklet filled with hard-to-get baseball coins, a Doctor Who penny, and a set of commemorative Space Shuttle pennies engraved and rolled by one of the past masters of the field. Because we were short-staffed, I ended up recording all sales and gathering monies. I wrote up a report for the Board members not present and delivered everything to the President when it was all done. I took the opportunity to auction off a couple of Jay Lake elongated coins for the Clayton fund. We only raised $10, but it's something. I still have some Lake coins and may run another fundraiser for thos who missed out the first time.
I concluded the day with my friend OP and a friend of his by walking along the Charles River from Exeter Street into Beacon Hill at sunset. It was lovely, clear, and cool, though a little humid. Sunset on the river was beautiful. We had dinner at a Middle Eastern restaurant called Phoenecia. OP is Israeli, and he was happy as a clam. He and the waiter spoke in Arabic a bit; I got by with my paltry two or three words and just enjoyed the food. Pleasant evening. I went to bed exhausted, realizing that the bulk of my walking in town was ahead of me, and a little concerned that I may have overdone it that night.
The Fellowship Meeting was intended to be a pizza party/trading/getting-to-know-you kind of event, but due to the morning's time over-runs, it transformed into a pizza party/auction. Every item donated for the auction was sold, and I came home with some lovely items: a penny booklet filled with hard-to-get baseball coins, a Doctor Who penny, and a set of commemorative Space Shuttle pennies engraved and rolled by one of the past masters of the field. Because we were short-staffed, I ended up recording all sales and gathering monies. I wrote up a report for the Board members not present and delivered everything to the President when it was all done. I took the opportunity to auction off a couple of Jay Lake elongated coins for the Clayton fund. We only raised $10, but it's something. I still have some Lake coins and may run another fundraiser for thos who missed out the first time.
I concluded the day with my friend OP and a friend of his by walking along the Charles River from Exeter Street into Beacon Hill at sunset. It was lovely, clear, and cool, though a little humid. Sunset on the river was beautiful. We had dinner at a Middle Eastern restaurant called Phoenecia. OP is Israeli, and he was happy as a clam. He and the waiter spoke in Arabic a bit; I got by with my paltry two or three words and just enjoyed the food. Pleasant evening. I went to bed exhausted, realizing that the bulk of my walking in town was ahead of me, and a little concerned that I may have overdone it that night.