Anemic pandemic, curmudgeons and polls - a fun Early Birds meeting!

 

0:00​ Start 19:06​ Table Topics 45:07​ Speaker 1 - Aleta Richmond 52:28​ Speaker 2 - Chris Guld - How to do Polls in Zoom 1:12:42​ Evaluations

Dear Members, Guests and Friends,

 

TM Pam embarked us on a dreamy world of a dissipating pandemic where you can actually stop insiding and start outsiding.  What a concept!  And so we learned that….

 

• I, TM Ana, was welcomed into my first home with icy pipes in a Chicago suburb by some friendly lady neighbors with a tray of homemade frozen cookies.
• Since Spain is always “different”, the lockdown only allows family members into the home, so he’s waiting for my flight from Florida to arrive.  In the meantime, he spends his time at bars and cafes, where non-family members are allowed in tables of 6.
• Soon-to-be Early Bird TM Paolo Italianly said “Non tutti I mali vengono per nuocere” (“no hay mal que por bien no venga” in Spanish) (“every storm cloud has a silver lining” in meteorological English) and his has been that he has spent the year on Toastmasters Zooms and Early Birds Club is the finalist!!
• TM Lorena has recently discovered that supermarkets don’t sell life so she is urging everyone, instead, to fly the friendly skies to visit family and friends.  She Won Best Table Topics Award.
• DTM Jim D. has not gone to restaurants or weekend outings during the past year and as a result he has become extremely rich.
• Guest TM Hannah marveled that this time of seclusion has allowed us to take up old hobbies which we could not pursue when we actually had a life.

 

And then came the prepared speeches…

 

• From her satellite dish outpost, TM Aleta is leading a volunteer a women’s professional organization whose motto is “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing” and which mostly refers to eating and talking.   To boot, this completes her Level 5 project in Pathways.  She Won Best Speaker Award.
• Self-appointed DTM (Dinosaur Toast Master) Chris G. explained that the key to creating polls is to have clout with the Zoom account owner.

 

As far as evaluations go….

 

• TM Tom praised TM Aleta’s simple, concise and constructive explanation of what it’s like to herd female cats.
• TM Joe commended TM Chris for using plain English to take us down technological rabbit holes.  He Won Best Evaluator Award.

 

The Word of the Day was

 

CURMUDGEON, noun

 

A cranky old person – often loveable underneath it all.

 

Ex. Early Birds Club is instrumental in removing curmudgeonry from the most curmudgeon-proficient of us.

 

 

Link to the YouTube recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmsS78wklqk

 

 

See you next week!

 

Ana I.

Recap Writer