SANE Meeting 2 June 2009 UPDATE

It would appear that the underwhelming choice for a 2 June project is a "Do-It-Yerselfer" - bring the project of your choice and (either exchange it with someone or) do it yourself! Keep it non-toxic, relatively clean, something you can do while you gossip/kibitz/eat/drink. Let thoughts percolate through your brainpans about what we might do for future meetings, and when that next meeting might be... with the Summer Fandango (aka GlobsterFesterClam) coming up soonly, this may be the last meeting before the summer vacation!? Where does that time go?<

Also bring an opinion when to hold the GlobsterFesterClam - current options were Sat 25 July or Sat 1 Aug of this very year. Who'd have thunk it?

I always try to do things in threes. This time it's declarative sentences, followed by a dumb question. Why should this paragraph be any different?

Okay, see y'all Tuesday. Shirkers will be Shirked. Isn't this number four?

Project suggestions for 2 June Meeting

Weigh these in your hearts and send me a quick note indicating the
heaviest, heart-wise.

Project suggestions include:

A do-it-yourself project free-for-all
Felting (needs a champion/leader) [was this "dirty" like frottage?]
Sun prints - "but it will be dark" - (sun day my prints will come)
Leaf printing (same as sun prints?)
Tin can hanging doodies [note: suggestor said 'doodies'! hunh!]
Very cool feathery designs using "shredding scissors"
Paper clay
Small paste papers
Friendly plastic (but don't quite know what to do, will investigate)

Non-project suggestions:

Poker
Mah Jongg (Betsey's set is on loan, would have to pick up)
Jackhammery
A butter-eating contest (how many sticks can you swallow in 12
minutes?)

SANE Meeting Tues 2 June 2009 @ Pam A's

SANEsters,

Okay we got a place to go - Pam A's - but nothing to do once we get there, other than open fire on excreta, if you know what I mean. (A week from now I will read this and not know what I mean. Know what I mean?)

Suggested options are:

A rude remark comparing "felting" to "frottage," and another saying felting sounds like fun. You draw your own conclusions. I know I have!

That's it for the suggestions. As always, thanks for playing, and the winner gets a copy of the home game and a year's supply of Rice-O'Rooney, the County Cork treat.

Not that I'm coming up with slam-bang ideas (which will no doubt join the frottage bandwagon) either, I'm just trying to stir up creative juices, stretch the bounds of your imaginations, prod a brain cell or three... is it me, or can I just not get my mind back out of the gutter? I'm gonna just sit back and take a minute...

Ahh, much better, clear mind and all. I'd suggest you all sit back and take a minute, and try, try not to fall asleep. There, you see, wasn't that great?

Now, before your sense of other responsibilities can grab hold of your attention, quickly fire back a response to this e-mail with the first project idea that snaps into your head. Ow! Don't snap quite so hard.

Once I get them all (and I mean you, Themal!) I'll either pick one (unlikely) or offer 'em up for a vote - or refer 'em to a subcommittee. Just because you suggest it doesn't mean you have to get all organized and "lead" it, you know. We're all adults here. Well, most of us. Okay, a few of us are oldish.

All right then, sorry to bother you right after lunch like this. But it was for your own good, and the good of the country.

-- Ramblin' Man

SANE Meets Tuesday 2 June

We're slated to have a meeting on Tuesday, 2 June 2009, at a place to be determined. As fortune would have it, we have a project to be determined. I believe we've done this project before!

I'm always willing to play poker, or I could sit and put my moccasins together from a cheesy AC Moore kit in a free-for-all bring-your-own-project meeting. Or we could do a round-robin stamp jam, or make jam, or fill robins until they are round (we'd need a passel of worms). Betsey had proposed felting, which involves multiple pieces of felt and long dissecting needles, which reminds me of early SNL sketches featuring Michael O'Donaghue. We could rent a barn and put on a show! We could tattoo the person to our right, unless you're left-handed - bring rusty needles. Or sock puppets - bring rusty socks!

We get better attendance when we have an actual project, except for that one project where we recycled biomedical waste, so if you have a good idea, lemme know, I'll run it up the duodenum and see who secretes.