Tuesday April 16, 2013

Tuesday April 16, 2013  update #424

Last night I finished Chris’ book, Methuselah’s Secret, available as an eBook too, and now I have to press him to finish the sequel.   He gave us a taste of the sequel at the last Writer’s Group reading and now it all fits.  C’mon Chris, get that typewriter clacking.

OMG did you read somewhere about explosions at the Boston Marathon.   I have a few ideas on what to do with the sicko that could do such a thing.  I think I’ll watch “Man On Fire” again to stoke me up.

Most of the morning was spent uploading photos etc before I had to run out to three meetings.  First we helped Mark and Karen with some banking so they could purchase their ‘new’ Suzuki.

Then we had the post-mortem on the Silent Auction and I was pretty surprised that almost every volunteer showed up to give their input.  The Auction was a success, and will end up closer to $5,500 when they add in the 50-50 proceeds plus the unpaid items.   Our goal was for $3,500 so this gives HoG the option to fund new projects that have been on hold.

The main gripe was the inadequate sound system which did not help us in informing the public properly about rules, etc.  In spite of that we had a huge crowd that was appreciative of all the work we did.

Many ideas were bounced around about trying a live auction although many did not believe Sheryle when she said a live Auction with 100 items would run about 5 hours.  Do the math at 3 minutes per item… she is absolutely right, then add at least an hour to register the public with bid sheets, etc, etc….  Another idea was to eliminate the paperwork, have everybody hooked up and synchronized electronically.  I didn’t see Ms Rockefeller ponying up the money for that little tidbit.   Talking heads aside, it was a productive meeting with a lot of brilliant ideas and shortcuts we can use next time.    I am so darn exhausted from this time I don’t even want to think about next time (due in August).

The I met with Ed and Peggy who had come to buy my gorgeous little Sony pocket camera.  They got a steal of a deal on that little puppy.    Now I have to work on selling my larger Sony DSC-HX1 with all its many accoutrements.  If you know of someone interested in that, let me know ASAP.

Bella is in an online Bridge Tournament all week, twice a day, so we are making arrangements to eat out every day so she doesn’t have to bother cooking.   Today we ordered the breaded chicken from next door where the price is never the same twice.  Today it was $2.50 each, no soup or drink or dessert, but the platter was full and neither of us could finish it, so we won’t complain.

Bella was just logging onto the Bridge Tournament when the doorbell rang.   The new Suzuki owners were outside with their new prized possession.and wanted me to take photos of them.   It is claimed that there is a way to get an Ecuadorian Drivers’ Licence without all the rigamaroll of tests in Spanish and so on, so I will be tagging along if that is true.

I did manage a couples of shots downtown today….

That was today’s excitement.   Hugs to all.  Please see all new photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/