Meeting #15 report

Well, only Benjamin showed up. I was watching a snowboard movie while we were waiting so he go introduced to that whole scene. The good idea of the night was the left over salmon we put into the annie's mac + cheese for dinner. Give it a try.

Political Participation- meeting #15

Meeting #15 will be held of Tuesday, October 23rd at 7pm. It will be at a bar TBD (let me know your suggestions) or at Maegen and my place.

TOPIC: Political Participation. We still have another year to go before the election and I'm already sick of it... but wait, I've done nothing, why am I sick of it? What am I sick of? What would I do if I could change the process? Be introspective, do some research, and come ready to discuss.

back to the seed, that never took root.

First off, no meeting this week. Maegen and I are running a food drive at Higher Ground.

Bare with me on a quick ramble. The GIS has not really taken root yet, we have a good idea, but it's not happening. I believe that's because we are not keeping to the original intention of the society. Basically, less "fluff" meetings, more serious discussion. Our best meetings have been more serious ones. I realize this may turn people off and that's okay. The hope is the GIS will succeed with a core group of dedicated members. As a reminder, here is the charter invitation that I will try to stay true to.

THE GOOD IDEA SOCIETY – charter invitation 10/30/06

Let’s create a place to share good ideas - good ideas that foster good community, good environment, good people, and good times.

To start, this place would be a bi-weekly meeting. A forum to have fun, discuss important/relevant issues, and to discuss problems that we face as a people and a community. This will all be done over a few pints and glasses of wine.

Our ideas will vary widely, from discussions of religion, politics, history, philosophy, and ethics to a dirty joke night or a whiskey tasting. The ideas can and will change from meeting to meeting and hopefully we will hit on some good ideas - good ideas that we’ll put into action and create real results.

But the main idea of the Good Idea Society is to create a “society” of friends where ideas can be safely expressed and explored while having a good time. Not so different from our lives already – just a touch more structure to help bring the ideas to life.

Let’s be serious, but let’s not take ourselves too seriously. Let’s try to do good, but make sure we’re having fun and not getting bogged down in the weight of our ideas.

Meeting #14 & #15 - Slap Shot and Octoberfest

Welcome back.

We'll have our first meetings in a long time in October. The first (#14) will be held on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2nd at 7pm. We will be a screening the film Slap Shot. Allan plays Johnny Upton, so we'll get a bit of a directors cut. As it stands Ross and Jeff's house is the venue, but we'd love to find an alternate location. Suggestions anyone?

great Johnny Upton quote from the movie















The second (#15), to be held on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16th, will be a seasonal Octoberfest party. We'll carve up some pumpkins, tap a keg of GIS Red Ale that Ross and I brewed over the summer, etc. This will be at Ross and Jeff's.

Time to get rolling again.

The kids are back in school, the leaves are starting to turn. Time to get the GIS back on track. What a great summer, we did some many fun, enriching activities. What you missed them? Oh right, that's because they never happened. Oh well.

We're going to have the first meeting of the fall later this month. We'll most likely be screening a film Allan worked on out as his house. Stay tuned for details. Missed you.

And for Ms. Emily - the GIS may sponsor the second annual Beerlington Golf Pub Crawl Open, hopefully some time in October.

Bad Idea - being on the lake during T-Storms

It would be a bad idea to go out on the lake during major thunder storms.



FIELD TRIP CANCELED.

From the National Weather Service

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF ON OR NEAR LAKE CHAMPLAIN...GET OUT OF THE WATER AND MOVE
INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE OUT TO
15 MILES FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU
ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER NOW.
DON`T BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM!

Summer Event #1 - Sunset Cruise

Sunset Cruise – on the Champlain ferry.



Meet at the Ferry at Perkins Pier Tuesday, Jun 19th. Meet at 6:20. BYOB and a snack for dinner. We'll take the roundtrip route from Burlington to Port Kent. It leaves Burlington at 6:35 and gets us back by 8:30. Tickets are $8.50.
Topic TBD, if we even have one. Let us know if you have ideas.

Meeting #13 - recap: GIS Summer Vacation

GIS bi-weekly meetings will be on vacation for the summer, resuming the week after labor day.

But the GIS will not be dormant all summer - field trips and events will flourish and we encourage GIS members to throw out ideas for events/trips and hosts/bring them to life. Free form GIS.

Possible summer events/trip:
> Underhill corn roast (some time in September)
> Thunder Road – Thurs and Sunday nights
> GIS #3 - beer
> Recipe swap/pot luck
> Clam bake (possibly at Crooked Path)
> Fleming museum – Winooski/Burlington
> Tunbridge world fair
> Formal night – dinner/dance
> Paintball
> Lee Scratch Perry concert
> Cheese – in some way shape or form
> bocce tournament
> Doubles tennis tourney
> Iron chef cooking night – dinner with one common ingredient
> Wine tasting hosted by Burlington Wine Shoppe.
> Sunset cruise – on the ferry bitches.
> GIS hosts, the 2nd annual Beerlington Open
> Chili cook off
> Umiak – wine tour/canoe thing
> Horse racing in Saratoga
> Car camping in the Kingdom
> You’ve got to hear this – bring a favorite or interesting song/album to share with the group. Also bring your music collection (hopefully on a hard drive) for exchange.
> Lake Monsters Game

Want one of these events to happen? grab the bull by the horns and organize.

Meeting #13 - state of the union

The next meeting will be Tuesday May 29th at 7:30pm. It will be held at the 158 North Willard (unless we find a better location before then). The topic of the meeting with be a state of the union on the good idea society and planning the topics for the next six meetings. In the mean time please post meeting ideas to the idea bank post. We'll have GIS Stout's and Brown Ale's.

PS - Sorry for spacing on last week and not having a meeting.

Weekend happenings (both involving alcohol?)

It was an eventful weekend for the some GIS members and I decided we should have more pictures on the blog.


Saturday night Marc invited us out to his house to witness some wine drawing and the Zinf tastes great. Thanks for the Good times.


















And this morning Ross and I put some labels on the Stout and Brown ales we brewed. I can't wait to drink the Stout's this coming Tuesday.





The stencil was a little chunky after. Most of the bottles look great, there are some that did not turn out that good and some crazy experiments. Good times.