It’s time for a break!

And since we are zooming pretty much the entire meeting, we really do need the break.

While everyone runs to the fridge and bathroom, here are a couple of announcements.

WARP 109 is about half done–I cannot do more without your input, and I am determined that it will be on line this month, so it might be a short issue. What I really need now are reviews. Given the time we have been spending at home, I find it hard to believe that no one has read a book or watched a TV show or movie. Et oui, vous pouvez écrire en français pour WARP, alors pas d’excuses.

MEMBERSHIP FEES: MonSFFA has always been (and always will be) primarily a social club, so when we had to suspend in-person meetings, we also suspended the fees. This was not a great hardship as we were also not paying for a hotel room. However, while our expenses are lower, they are not insignificant. For one thing, the fees for our website and domain name come due this year, and we have to pay for a year’s subscription to Zoom. Though WARP is only being mailed to members without Internet, it is still being printed in hopes that we will all be able to get together again someday. We have had no fundraising, none at all, not even the snack bar!

Therefore we will be asking members to start renewing their memberships as if last year never happened (I wish), starting April as our last live meeting was in March. Therefore, if your membership was due for renewal in April 2020, it is now due in April 2021.

MonSFFA PROGRAMMING :  We need members to consider making a presentation or volunteer to moderate a discussion. Now that we have unlimited time on zoom, there are more possibilities. Somebody could do a demo from his/her workshop for instance. We have members (naming on names here) who collect model kits–why not schedule some time to show off the boxes?

At the very least, please send us your programming wish list as we would normally be discussing the year’s programming this month anyway. What would you like to see from our club in 2021?

Participation Prizes

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Nebula, Locus, Sunburst and Aurora Award finalist: The Mayan God of Death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. Condition: like new	The spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below. Condition: like new	Ten novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, together with a preface by the editors. Condition: Good
Grand Prix 2005 de la science-fiction et du fantastique québécois Prix Boréal 2005 Prix 2006 des lecteurs Radio-Canada	Little Wyrm jigsaw puzzle made of yellow birch.	Celtic moon ornament made of yellow heart ( Pau Amarello).

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Dan Kenney has sent us photos of the Klingon BoP he has been rebuilding with some serious augmentations. That done, he has since moved on to refurbishing the Romulan BoP! You can follow his progress on facebook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s time for the break! Crack open a bheer, and join us on Zoom. If you have not received the invitation, send me an e-mail NOW. In a few minutes I will be too busy on Zoom to respond.

 

 

 

Announcements: An SOS from our programmer

For the last seven months, a handful of us have managed to keep MonSFFA alive by going virtual.  And we’ve done a darn good job, even if we say so ourselves.

BUT WE ARE GETTING EXHAUSTED!

Our live meetings used to have a rotation of presenters, with the same people rarely having to host a panel more than three or four time in a whole year.  There were breaks, too, with outings, parties and book sales.  Not so anymore; the six of us have been spitting out presentations, games and galleries nonstop since last April!  And it looks very much like we will have to stay virtual for several months to come…

WON’T YOU HELP?

We do not ask for much; just a bit of material suitable to fill half an hour of time will do nicely.  It can be a short history of a TV show, a short lecture on astronomy or some other genre-related topic.

Do not worry about the wrapping, we can help you frame your content nicely by providing PowerPoint or KeyNote backgrounds, formatting and conversion into slides.  We just need some content to get things started.

Pretty please, with chocolate on it?

Participation Prizes

All you have to do to be eligible for our raffle is participate. Write a comment, ask a question, join us on zoom!

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I draw three names, winners get to pick their prizes.

Among the 4 prizes you can choose from this month is a cross stitch Christmas project. (I got as far as sorting the colours, but never actually started since I was spoiled by Theresa Wentzler. ) The kit has everything, even the needle, but you will need glue and quilting batten to finish the projects properly.

Also on offer, two pairs of Celtic ornaments in celebration of the month. Each pair has the fairy with the moon and the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is common to many cultures, but recently is mostly associated with the Celts and Norse.  The woods are paduk and canary wood.

And there is a dragon, because dragons are always in style! This wide-eyed baby is made of walnut.

 

 

 

 

Dan Kenny has been working on his Klingon BoP.

Dan writes: Two new canons and two new photon torpedo launchers..work in progress..Q’APLA

You may remember that Lindsay won the first prize for correctly completing Keith’s super hard quiz.  She sends us a photo of the dragon clock on the library shelf. I hope the little dragon likes Heinlein!

Sylvain’s Spaceships

Did you ever doodle when you were a teenager?  I know I did, but not quite in the usual mundane way.  My fun was to create whole fleets of spaceships from different star-faring civilizations and come up with all sorts of interactions between them.  Hey, I am a geek!

I rarely throw things away, and recently found a bunch of my drawings from the late-60s and early-70s.  Here they are, in all their slightly yellowed splendour.  –Sylvain