Meeting

This is my third year as President of the Hendricks County Amateur Radio Society.  We only meet once a month, but the meetings roll around pretty quickly...and I have been fresh out of program ideas for a number of months now!  Over the years, we have had special guests:  our county's EMA director, the ARES Coordinator for Marion County, etc., and hams who have come to talk about PSK-31, antenna launching, high definition radio, etc.  We have had a county "treasure hunt" that was coordinated by the Skywarn Director, a show-and-tell in which members brought their favorite little tools or things that come in handy in radio.  So far, it has gone fairly well, and I have been lucky in that no one has refused me, even in my last-minute bids for presentations.  (For the most part, I think the membership doesn't care much what we do!)  My poor belabored brain, however, has hit a dry spot. 

I spent some time this weekend searching around on the Internet for ideas...something that wouldn't require a presenter.  I thought about a radio trivia quiz, but I didn't want to be the one to make it up.  Today, at school (in every free minute I could scrape up), I searched the Internet for quizzes I could plagiarize.  Some were too short.  Some were too basic.  Some were too difficult or boring.  Down to the wire when I got home from school, I started writing my own quiz of ten questions, ending with a question of embarrassing or "worst" events that happened to the members in radio.  Interestingly enough, the quiz seemed to be successful, and the stories were both instructional and amusing--my own included. 

I think the next three meetings are covered, thank God.  I have already told the membership that I will not be their president next year.  Time for new blood!!!!!

Time for bed.  It's been a looong day.