It's All Over But Some Shouting

Good meeting, but first some important info regarding our Saturday Social at the Yacht Club.  Jennifer sent me some written directions for those who are either electronically challenged or not good map readers:

 

Now on to the more boring stuff.  Our President of the Month turned out to be none other than young Conrade Mayer (not boring) and he got the meeting off to a rip-roaring start by thanking Navin, who didn't know he was the designated greeter.

 

Here's what "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" look like when they're off duty 

 

  Our guest speaker and former member Kevin Spease was called on to lead the Pledge and did a fine job, as did young Jerry Smuts who led us in belting out God Bless America.  Quote for the Day was attributed to Mother Teresa, who I believe once stated, "One more Tandoori Chicken and I'm outa here!"

 

 

There were some announcements: here they are...

 

 

The drawing for $112 was operated fairly, with Kevin drawing the winning ticket which belonged to young Becky Harvey.  Sadly, Becky's grasp of the finer points of winning the weekly drawing was a little weak this week and she marched off with but a lonely white golf ball. 

 

 

 

The Sarge turned out to be the tall guy in the Club and being told only moments before the event, he almost whiffed the whole thing.  But tradition is tradition and it goes without saying that PE Paul Schubert is always good a for a few bucks on the "pins in public" test, and this week he was joined by Ross Johnson and Tracy (!) and Steve Forseth didn't even have his badge on (which explains why no one talked with him, since they couldn't remember his name.)  Kevin Spease naturally muffed the "Best Club in the District" question and chipped in.  President Conrade had led off the Sarge's session by chipping in a Takehara for a number of shortcomings, but the Sarge nevertheless held him up for some additional ridicule for having attended last week's non-existent meeting.  Paul Schubert added to the take by admitting he was proud to be President Elect.  On the subject of recent trips, Ross Johnson admitted to being in Vegas recently, presumably at the Christian Science Reading Room conference.

 

 

   Then Becky dropped a bomb on the proceedings when she told us that Merlin Mauk had recently fallen at home and broken his nose.  Merlin, we hope you have a speedy recovery from the event.  Gary Spainhower admitted to having some connection with the Doobie Brothers and paid (doobies are legal now, Gary.)  Ross Johnson doubled up by paying for being late and then Navin bragged about coordinating several big events recently so they both paid.  Bob Adam admitted to 58 years of wedded bliss and chipped in and got a big round of applause.  Paul and Conrade then donated for the scholarships they had recently presented to Kinney High and to Cordova High graduating seniors.  Well done , lads and kudos to Becky and  Navin, who spent a lot of time coordinating the Kinney scholarships.  And with that, as quickly as the bleeding had started, clotting occurred and the Sarge was done.

 

 

Well, not 'zackly done, since he remained standing to introduce our guest speaker, Kevin Spease from the Laguna Elk Grove Rotary, who spoke to us about cyber security in these days  where personal information is traded like wampum.  Kevin runs a commercial cyber security firm whose analysts' job is to prevent cyber crime affecting their commercial customers.  See the slide for the tips that Kevin passed on.

 

 

At the end, Kevin's presentation  was so engaging that he had a raft of questions, and when it was all over, President Conrade gave him the book and the room cleared faster than that bullet that Superman is faster than.  Good meeting.  Don't forget Saturday afternoon at the Yacht Club!