Plans for today (2025)

TastyReuben said:
The shady behavior I definitely remember. Some members of the club were pushing for permanent modern restroom facilities to be built on the grounds, for events (the park, at that time, ran three major events a year).

The estimate was for a little over $1M for the project, and every month, membership would vote on it and vote it down. One month, though, we were alarmed that the contracts had been signed and the project was moving forward.

What happened was a few members on the grounds & buildings subcommittee went rogue and signed the contracts anyway, then said, “Tough shit. You try and back out and we’ll get sued by the construction company.”

There was talk of going to the courts to have the contracts declared void since prescribed procedure had not been followed, but in the end, the board decided that would be bad publicity for the club and let it slide with a “stern warning.”

The people I yelled at were all involved in that mess, but that was the first of a lot of crap and incompetence from them that I didn’t like.

And as far as plans today…MrsT is at the market, eating raclette and drinking gluhwein, and I’m at a British-style pub, having a sausage roll and a beer while waiting on my knives to be sharpened next door.
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Wow.
Did the members on the sub committee get kicked off?
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Wow.
Did the members on the sub committee get kicked off?
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No! Over the next couple of years, they were voted into the two top positions. They and their ilk staged something of a velvet revolution against the old guard.

I didn’t begrudge them that, since that’s what people voted for, but they were so ill-equipped to run a largish non-profit, and just flat out stupid about it, and pig-headed about it, and they ruined the club IMO, which is why I left and haven’t been back.

It’s a shame, really, because we loved the club and worked all the events, I was on one of the subcommittees, we did a lot with and for the club. It used to be a really special, unique place (in an area with a good dozen German-American culture clubs), and they basically turned it into a damn German-themed frat house. Bastards one and all, AFAIC.
 
TastyReuben said:
No! Over the next couple of years, they were voted into the two top positions. They and their ilk staged something of a velvet revolution against the old guard.

I didn’t begrudge them that, since that’s what people voted for, but they were so ill-equipped to run a largish non-profit, and just flat out stupid about it, and pig-headed about it, and they ruined the club IMO, which is why I left and haven’t been back.

It’s a shame, really, because we loved the club and worked all the events, I was on one of the subcommittees, we did a lot with and for the club. It used to be a really special, unique place (in an area with a good dozen German-American culture clubs), and they basically turned it into a damn German-themed frat house. Bastards one and all, AFAIC.
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That’s sad.
Large charitable organisations that have large amounts of funds are a nightmare.
The Rugby club was the same.
Because their coffers are large it attracts the wrong type of people whose motivations to try and gain control are dubious.
Not one but two embezzlers (that were caught) and there was terrible fighting because the junior section and the senior sections coffers were separate.
Well that didn’t suit the adult players and committee because there were hundreds of minis and juniors (good place to dump your kid on Sunday morning 🙄) and less than half of that in the adults.
So the adult section headed by one of these dubiously motivated people (one had been done for fraud before) wanted to get their hands on the Junior sections money.
Money that subsidised the kids kit, paid for their trips and games away and gave the kids experiences some of them would never have been able to have otherwise.

Oh the rows!
That was hard to stop but Mr SSOAP managed it, just, took so much time, effort and energy, also left a bad taste between the two sections. It was very stressful. I think that was the one that finally wore Mr SSOAP out so when I said lets have a break and get more into the motorcycle travelling he did.
 
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Will be interested to hear about that design.
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Couple more pictures
Let me know if you want close up shots or my rudimentary design drawing

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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Very nicely done, easy to clean yourself too. I look at the solar panels on my roof and think hmm yer maybe sometime 😂
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Thanks.
I got some panels on my roof, but my house faces the wrong way. I can point them East or West.
The other panels are on a stand like this new one, facing North
 
Today's plans include going to a new pizza place, since it was recommended to the wife, and she needs to get out after about 3 weeks ' confinement after cataract surgery.
As you know, I'm not a pizza fanatic, but this place is interesting for three reasons.
1) Over 70's get 50% off.:D
2) All you can eat.:D
3) You get a choice of slices! :bravo::bravo:
Yep - they don't make pizzas to order; they just bring the different pizzas around, straight from the oven, and you take a slice of what ever you fancy. Now that idea appeals to me; far more interesting than just getting the standard pepperoni or the margherita.
I'm also going to water, fumigate and fertilise the orchids/other plants since the grass has been cut and I can finally walk to where they're growing, instead of having to wade through semi-jungle :D
 
I’ve got a lot of outside chores today - cut back the hydrangeas and butterfly bushes, put up the porch furniture, and winterize the mower.

We might, if we’re lucky, get our first snow tomorrow. ❄️ ❄️ ❄️
 
I brought some decorum to my prepper pantry shelves in the basement. We try to rotate through it. New stuff goes in the back, and the older stuff gets moved to the front. I realized I need to re-stock on Great Northern Beans and Garbonzo Beans, and I really need to pressure can a lot more food, as I'm down to just a few jars of things, and I have no more pressure canned soups at all. Now onto cleaning up my reloading area...
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