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Meeting Date: November 7, 2000 Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Alan Mildwurm's house
Bank Account: $1,000 (approximately)
We actually had a Board Meeting and most of the Board actually attended. It was thanks to Peggy that I attended. Monday she sent an email out to verify that the meeting this month was indeed moved to Tuesday. If I hadn't seen that, I would have shown up Wednesday and missed out on pizza yet again. Thank you Peggy!
In order to help me ease back into attending Board Meetings and writing minutes, I and my fellow Board members endeavored to discuss anything and everything, as long as it had little or nothing to do with real Board business, and to a large degree we were successful. We reminisced about the movie "Animal House". We discussed the problems with BART, in particular their inability to keep elevators and escalators running more than three weeks out of the year, problems with the train doors, and how to cheat the system. As with anything digital, Ron is quite the authority on how to produce functioning BART tickets in the home with a few simple accessories. Actually, the technique he described no longer works due to changes in the design of the tickets. (He claimed to have read this somewhere, and further claimed not to have any firsthand knowledge.)
Next came DSL and cable installation horror stories, and there were quite a few. Makes me appreciate my 56 KB modem. This was followed by geography trivia. Did you know that the northernmost state of the first 48 is Washington? Or that Salt Lake City is west of Los Angeles? (It's not -- I looked it up. It didn't sound right to me, but I didn't want to challenge that and then be proved wrong. No guts, no glory. I think they meant Reno is west of Los Angeles, which is true.) Did you know Florida spans two time zones? This was election night, and as our meeting started CBS had just retracted their projection of Bush as the winner in Florida. Little did we know that ten days later there still would be no winner in Florida.
Interspersed among nearly two hours of such varied topics (I got whiplash of the brain trying to follow along), a few minor items of business did surface briefly.
Someone had heard that Bank of America was selling on of the buildings, and there was con
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