08_10_04 Geospeakers Meeting Summary

President Ann Gunderson was unable to attend at the last minute, so Shane Detweiler (EVP) took over presidential duties. He was very busy, also serving as Wordmaster/grammarian and Timer. Fran Hostettler served as Toastmaster, introducing today's theme of "balance" and ably guiding us through today's program.

Gretchen Luepke Bynum gave us a Fact-Finding Report (#4 in Speaking to Inform advanced manual) entitled "Options on Hip Implant Surgery". Speaking from personal experience, she gave us a quick medical/surgical/anatomical lesson. Joanna, equipped with laptop no less, gave a very thorough evaluation.

Mitch Smith treated us to "My Three Bosses", done with beaucoups Vocal Variety (#5, basic manual). We enjoyed his clear and descriptive characterizations, and sympathized with his plight trying to get all three to agree on one little vacation for him. Neil evaluated with his usual excellent style, though I wish I could remember a detail of it for our edification!

Jorie Schulz as Table Topics Master asked a fascinating variety of questions about more aspects of balance than I could ever think of: balancing family and work, checkbooks, our bodies, trade, development and nature, diets, etc. These elicited an equally riveting array of comments from the group. Gretchen took away Most Humorous for her frank discussion of her checkbook balancing efforts; new member Lauri Kanerva was Most Interesting in his segue from balance of nature to the trickiness of balancing sounds of different instruments when writing musical arrangements; and Chris Gutmacher was deemed Most Eloquent in description of how the work-family thing never gets better, but it does change as the kids grow, so some parts may be easier to deal with than others.

Shane managed to time everyone, while noting those who did not use either lubricious (adj. lustful or lewd; having a slippery or smooth quality) or taradiddle (n. fib, pretentious nonsense). As you can imagine, no one told an actual lubricious taradiddle. He gets this stuff from on-line vocabulary sites.

Great time, everyone.

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