interesting evening spent

Attended RASC TC meeting. And the aprés meeting. I was a little anxious.

Tony and I rode together. Gave us a chance to talk about the SCOPE newsletter faux pas.

We bumped into Ron on the way in. He and Tony launched into conversation and walked briskly ahead.

I noted Orion to the south. A bright Moon overhead.

Inside, I spotted the gaggle of people at the end of the bridge contacting the west and east buildings of the Science Centre. Saw Fernando and his son. The little boy was very earnestly providing handouts to people. Funny.

I dropped off the box of RASC stuff, BOGs, name tag holders, info sheets, used at the clinic, to Leslie, who happened to be at the welcome desk.

Sharmin accosted me. About the handouts. Where were they? Didn't you make them? I explained that Charles should have them, he ordinarily made them and provided them. She said he said he didn't have them. Huh?

Sat beside Dietmar and Millie. We chatted briefly about our next trip to the CAO. I had forgotten to follow-up with them but we straightened out the ride arrangements and departure time.

Joel sat beside me. We talked about MaxIm DL, its documentation, the weather, etc.

Brenda came in, shouting something from the stage floor. Hello? Pardon? I think she was saying there were handouts. And you could get them yourself from the welcome desk. Yeah.

Charles, for the first time as president, kicked off the meeting. He was a little nervous. He introduced the v.p.

Paul Delaney's such a great speaker. Good round-up of the search for exoplanets. Neat hearing about about some of the new techniques like TTV. Funny. He started off with a Star Trek (the original series) reference. Apropos.

A good turnout.

Gave Lourdes and Mike a copy of SkyTools Starter Edition.

I saw her also receive a RASC calendar from Tim. Perhaps there are more available...

Chatted with Bill about spare Dell batteries. He reported that all the 600 ones he found at work were pooched. I thanked him for looking.

Submitted two ECRs to Scott. Explained how the split payment worked. I asked if that was OK. I also asked if he knew why the payment amount to HostPapa was slightly different than quoted. He said he didn't notice. Struck me as a little odd, being so detail-oriented. It's not a lot of money.

Justin and I talked more radio astronomy. He briefly showed me an app on Android, with a large frequency scale. Sitting across from Tony and Ralph was lucrative. Tony thought it OK to use a dish at the Carr Observatory but pointed out that one might have been put in the garage. He also pointed out that one is specific to the NASA channel. And Ralph, to our surprise, had some experience!