Dear Members, Guests and Friends,
Ever the multitasker millennial, newly inducted President, birthday boy and Topic Master Jeff started us off with media headlines:
- TM Carmine gave his unique interpretation of declining jobless rates which, as a faithful reader and follower of the Fake News, he unequivocally attributes to skewed reports from the only fair, balanced and unafraid one.
- TM Astrid is moving back to Florida in August so she is postponing her planned preliminary visit in July to avoid the mandatory quarantine dictated by a certain tv personality with a Cuomo surname.
- DTM Mary Helen remembers the long lines at the gas pump during the mandate of a certain peanut farmer and is enjoying the current low prices with no lines, although she does worry about keeping oilyTexans employed. She also reported that lately, her vehicle gets 3 months to the gallon.
- Visitor Area Director Jonathan marveled at artificial intelligence, namely a certain facespiralnotebook site which knows everything about us. He urged us to be cautious with our posts to avoid having them come back to bite us in the derriere.
- I, Ana, gratefully acknowledged the priceless fact that I will not be present at a Florida theme park’s reopening – strict rules or permissive rules notwithstanding- and will sit comfortably in my air conditioned home while young parents weather the scorching heat (wearing face masks, to boot) and interminable lines to please their unpleasable, screaming, strung out offspring. I Won Best Table Topics Award.
And then came the long-awaited prepared speeches:
- TM Jose practiced reinventing himself waaaay before it became trendy an, while under the impression that he was joining a toy industry giant, instead he became an avid tourist providing furniture to perfectly coiffed technology wizards who demanded overnight deliveries for their agricultural irrigation systems. He Won Most Improved Speaker Award.
- TM Chris gave us a practical demonstration of Top 8 Tips for Using Zoom. All of us discovered buttons we didn’t previously know were there. In this mindset, she then took us on a psychedelic trip down the tunnel of mirrors. She Won Best Speaker Award.
In the evaluations…
- TM Tom praised TM Jose for his genuine personality magic which totally transcends the screen and looks forward to future speeches with lots of Spanish words pronunciated in Spanish. He Won Best Evaluator Award.
- TM Pam thanked TM Chris – speaking for all of us- for the demonstration speech with integrated questions and giving us a chance to practice on screen. She suggested to limit the tips to 3 instead of 8. That’s the limit of what most of us can handle in one session….
The Word of the Day was
UNIQUE, one of a kind, unlike anyone.
Dates to Remember:
August 13 – speech evaluation contest
August 27 – humorous speech contest
Link for the YouTube recording http://www.youtube.com/watch?
See you next week!
Ana
Recap Writer
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