Oct. 23rd Awards Banquet Held

Last Saturday we met to reminisce over the history of the Fictionados. A good time was had by all. Thanks to my father for offering his house for the event.

Rick and I had wanted to celebrate the significance of the group to us with an award. First we toyed with the idea of issuing diplomas, but that would have mocked our sentiment and trivialized the moment. This fake diploma idea began to rankle. Why issue a diploma as a joke? We wanted something that would honor our accomplishment; something to represent the reality of reading together for so long, hence the certificate of achievement. The certificate stated that we had been reading together for twelve years and represented over two thousand hours of required reading. This calculates to an average of about thirty minutes a day. I didn't bother figuring the exact number of books we had read together, but it would be about one hundred and twenty. That is a lot of common experience to share with someone. The certificates were appropriately framed to permit them to be proudly displayed, and presented to Rick and me, by me and Rick.

The awards banquet was well attended, all the Fictionados were present (Rick Marx and Doug Eigsti), as well as my family. Rick's family was unable to attend. We feasted on Chinese food catered from Fortuna Inn. We noted the irony that now, when we have finally hit upon the optimum method of scheduling books to read, The Huge Mangy Tome Project, does our membership plummet to the lowest possible number, that is two people. We have had as many as nine members at one time but they have parted, each for their own reasons. We would love to have more people, but we will carry on regardless, because reading is important to us.

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=Doug Eigsti=