Meeting Notes Aug 7
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Meeting notes August 7 2007
Cook - Carrie
Scribe - Peter
Facilitator - Luigi
Present: Leilani, Chris, Clay, Vanessa, Ashira, Peter, Jimi, Patricia, Luigi, Carrie
Announcements
1. Boxes in the living room are Patricia’s - they will be put in her room when the carpet project is finished. Luigi says this will probably take a few days
2. There is a new couch from Patricia’s mom - where shall we put it? Let’s get rid of the old long one.
Meeting Topics
1. Attendence: Some people consistently miss meetings (like tomas, tho it is pointed out that he has to work and he mentioned this up front). There is also a core group that is always here. Meetings are important, respectful. Scribing is also important for those who can’t be there (maybe the weblog will help) - people should read the notes, and respond to show they have if they didn’t attend the meeting. People should also let the house know (e-mail) if they can’t make a meeting.
2. Upstairs hallway clutter. Mee please respond re stuff in the hall; it’s been there a while. Also, the cushion thing might get picked up by Andreas. And there will be some temporary mess due to work in Luigi/Patricia’s room.
2a. (related sidebar) Who’s is the chest of drawers in the downstairs hall? Carrie’s. Chris thinks its nice, but people might be tempted to leave things on it.
3. Thank you Chris for the bike rack! Who’s bikes are all those? (Taylor’s, Steve’s, …).
Ideas: organize spare parts, build a bike work table
4. Gary’s pond. Mosquitos re back, even though Chris cleans the pool (and it’s a lot of work). What to do? Fixing screens would help. Covering pool would help.
5. TP. Luigi says there is very little downstairs, so he took some from upstairs. Chris say he has a bunch, and makes it clear he is not hoarding it but he bought it and he uses a lot.
6. Erik as guest, September. We like him, he was a good couch surfer. But there is some concern about a long term couch-surfer, especially with 14 people already in the house this fall. We’ll suggest the usual 2 weeks, but could probably be flexible. Carrie also offers her fold out couch
7. Luigi put last weeks notes on the weblog
8. Chris says “flag.” What? Flag. F-L-A-G. We have a flagpole! Chris wants to make a flag for Burning Man.
9. Checkout. Hemi was cool. No, wait, this is about checkout. Maybe checkout should be about something more real, like “how’s your life?” Maybe we could keep the silly checkout, and also have a “check in” for relating personal life stuff … maybe during dinner …
OK. Now the actual Checkout (not the topic of checkout). The command is to tell about a dream you had recently - a dream, says Luigi, “fluttering in the mystic ether.”
Ash: she cut her hair
Jimi: hasn’t been dreaming lately but sometimes dreams about skating (but we know that)
Chris: ate a hula hoop
Vanessa: dreamt her aunt recovered from breast cancer (and she did)
Clay: was housesitting. rock stars were invited and Clay tried to throw them out but they kept coming. The house got bigger; Koreans were smoking cigars - then it was a cigar commercial and then an old man leaned out of a bus and yelled at his son for smoking.
Leilani: pulled never ending hairballs from her throat.
Luigi: dreamed he was in a hardware store, sorting through dust parts. happiness. the next day that’s exactly what he did.
Patricia: back in the same place, a city or town, of her recurring dreams. also, Chris’s flag.
Peter: apocalyptic things.
Carrie: pass
Vanessa scribes next week.