New shirts delivered! Thanks Tara
And there we all are in our new 40th anniversary shirts – except Steve who was away on holiday and will be photographed and published at a later date, probably at the same time he is presented with the 2023 SPOON award. A great big thank you to Tara for organising the shirt purchase and embroidery, and to Nicole, our resident graphic artiste, for coming up with the new SBGA logo.
As you might see in the photo, the main game tonight was SmartAss – played for the second time in as many meetings, but in two different years. As luck would have it, Rob won it both times! Tonight Genelle and Matt were the other place getters. The backup was the ever tricky Six Second Scribbles – too hard for us with that time limit, so we play it as Three Minute Scribbles. The placings were Tara, Nicole and Matt.
Before games began some people were glancing through some ancient SBGA News issues brought along by El Presidente. In the December 2008 issue it was recorded that at the annual Presentation Dinner I proposed Wayne to be made a Life Member of SBGA, an idea that was endorsed by the membership as it was then. It is also recorded that the instigator of the idea was ex-member Rob Harris. I remember none of this. Anyway, having read this item, there was a movement, carried unanimously, to declare another life member – yours truly!
Thanks to you all, and I’ll be updating my official SBGA email signature to include the relevant letters after my name ET,LM,SBGA. If you haven’t worked it out, this stands for El Tesorero, Life Member, Sydney Board Games Association. I bet you didn’t know El Trez is short for El Tesorero, the next most important office bearer after El Presidente.