August 15, 2004
A Great Meeting
Much to my surprise, yesterday's meeting was a huge success. Thanks to everyone's help, we had good attendance, good giveaways and a new backup place in which to hold our meetings.
Every month I think that we have nothing to talk about and that the meeting is going to bomb and yet each meeting turns out to be a surprise and to be quite successful. You'd think I'd learn right? ;)
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August 13, 2004
There's Never Enough Time
It's 3:03am and I'm just now getting around to putting up the meeting information. I've made attempts several times this week, but there simply hasn't been enough time.
For example, I had planned on posting it after dinner tonight, but fell asleep on the couch. After waking up to drag my ass to bed, I couldn't fall asleep. Knowing that the meeting notice hasn't gone out yet just kept me up. So here I sit pulling copy out of my butt to form an agenda and everything that I plan to talk about for Saturday.
It's not as if I'm alone though. I have one volunteer for one small segment and Randy has done his usual fantastic job of getting a bunch of door prizes for us. Not only that, but Fred has really been a blessing in getting us into CompUSA for this month's meeting. If I didn't have this kind of help, I think I'd hand this whole puppy over to someone else.
Well, that's a little too maudlin and there's a lot of work to do, so time to put my nose back to the grindstone!
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July 17, 2004
Good News Everyone!
In the immortal words of Professor Hubert J. Fransworth, "Good News Everyone..." It looks like we may have a meeting space for August's meeting. It's a little premliminary, which is why I'm not posting this on the main news page, but it looks like CompUSA will allow us to use their facilities for August.
This probably won't become a permanent home, but I look forward to having a new place to try. I expect that we'll have different people show up since we'll be further south. No matter what. It will be interesting.
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July 11, 2004
Had To Cancel The Meeting
I hated to do it, but unfortunately, I had to cancel the July meeting this month. I received an e-mail from the guys at First Data Systems saying that their building was under going renovations and that there was no way they could host the meeting. This is one of the first times that this has happened, so it's hard to complain when you've had close to 4 years of spotless meeting space. We're truly blessed to have such a fantastic meeting room in which to hold our meetings.
Unfortunately, we're going to be unable to hold our August meeting there as well. This is the first time that I've had to find a meeting location since the start of the group. Our first space was donated by a member and when we out grew that space, another member offered First Data Systems and we've been there ever since. In all my dealings with other PUGs (through InterPUG) the one thing that I always stress as one of the most important things to secure is meeting space. It's the biggest hurdle a PUG typically faces, so the sooner this can be addressed the better. Well now we're faced with the challenge of finding a temporary meeting space for August.
However it looks like we already have a possible location! In talking on Saturday during our informal Chat, one of our members thinks he may have a lead on using the training room at the Brentwood/Cool Springs CompUSA. That would make for a GREAT meeting location and if it works out, we may even consider making it our permanent location. Of course that's assuming that the meeting space works for us and that they'll have us. :P
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