[THC] Next Meeting -- MARCH 10 -- silent auction -- don't miss this.

[L. A. Swihart]

jfschweitzer wrote:

>Hi All
>
>Here's the semi-official notice of what's going on next Saturday.  The map to my house is below but it's not perfect. (3360 Hamilton Street)  If you take Soldier's Home Road to Hamilton go through the stop sign at LaGrange St. and we are the 5th house on the right.  If you come off Kalberer Road and get to LaGrange you've gone too far (turn around).
>  
>

It's not just semi-official!  It's totally completely and verifiably 
quite likely to happen! 

I went to Jim's tonight to discuss with him some of the elements of the 
March 10 meeting, and wait 'til you see what the silent auction stuff 
is. There is some *very* cool stuff. (See below.)

There is also a lot of very cool interesting raffle stuff, equipment and 
beers too, and the raffle tickets will be cheap. Jim is in charge of the 
final pricing but I think we discussed $0.50/ticket or your height in 
tickets for some price that makes it quite attractive to buy your height 
in tickets. (I.e. the ticket seller just pulls tickets from the reel up 
to the top of your head and tears it off.)

Here are some of the silent auction items and the minimum bid prices we 
talked about if I remember them (Jim is in charge; this report is the 
best of my recollection, i.e. these are not "binding" advertised prices):

Westvleteren #8 (year unknown but 2002 or before) ($5)
Thomas Hardy 1991 ($10)
Thomas Hardy 1996 (??)
Thomas Hardy unknown age (lost main label) ($??)
Bigfoot 1994 ($5)
Bigfoot 2000 ($5)
Bigfoot 2001 ($5)
Two pre-2002 Foghorns
Beerline 10th anniversary barleywine ($5)
Celebration Ale 1999 (label in terrible shape) ($5)
Rogue Old Crustacean 1993 ($5)

Of course in a silent auction the bidding (writing your name and bid 
down on a paper) takes place over most of the duration of the meeting... 
Jim will announce the closing time at the beginning and could probably 
use volunteer help winding things up, BTW. If the min bid prices are too 
low, well, they'll be driven up by people who want the stuff.

Here are what I think are two of the coolest silent auction items:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~swihart/images/SilentAuction.gif
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~swihart/images/SilentAuctionAllagash.gif
But there's also a bunch of other beers in the raffle, and some 
equipment in the raffle, and some equipment in the silent auction....

This will be a fun meeting!