April 4th meeting

Today was the business meeting, which was a bit longer than normal. Lee explained about our event this Friday, where Dave will be the speaker, and Lee will be the speech evaluator. Brian will be the Toastmaster, and we will do a short table topics session. Dave presented Brian's competent leadership award today! He also talked about next year's officers.
The Toastmaster of the day was Dave, whose theme was his recent vacation to see his fiance. He talked about how her cooking was just as good as he remembered and some of the places they went. Laurie was the general evaluator of the day, and she complimented Dave on his smooth transitions. One thing she suggested was for Brian to give balanced criticisms and compliments even if they are small.
Paul was the only speaker of the day, and talked about his trip to New Zealand. He talked about how his wife was in a group invited to sing with the Sweet Adelines. During his talk he showed us pictures and a video of singing in a restaurant. There were pictures of hobbiton in Matamata, New Zealand. Other places he highlighted were restaurants, like the picnic he went to that had three very large bowls of food and landscapes. For hobbiton, he showed a picture of him standing by one of the outside's if a In the speech, Paul also talked about how one of the beautiful catholic churches was damaged by a storm, and was being held up with blocks. Brian was the evaluator for Paul. He complimented Paul's gestures, but warned that while Paul speaks with his pictures, his gestures are mostly to his right side.
Lauralee was the impromptu table topics master of the day. Her table topics were based off of the currently popular Facebook game would you rather. She asked Peter if he would rather have a lion or elephant as a pet. His reply was that his cats would not like him if he got a lion, and they would be hard to feed, so he would prefer an elephant. Laurie said that she liked audiobooks and paper books equally depending on the activity, when asked if she prefered one over the other. When driving for long periods of time, she likes having an audiobook with her. In contrast, she likes to snuggle down with a good book at home. Laimons won table topics after being asked if he prefers jazz or rock and roll. He said that in Gothenburg, Sweden he heard The Delta Rhythm Boys, a jazz gospel group, but he did say that he could tolerate Rock Around the Clock because it was more like jazz.
The word of the day was occams razor. The timer of the day was Lee.