June 23, 2011: Online Work Bee

Shelley ... used up all my gumption ... had to drink coffee the last three days
Ben ... feeling like I should do stuff ... but not sure when I'm going to find the time (e.g., political stuff) ... want to start writing in a personal journal again
Brandon ... possesses a nice tattoo. Won the Annual Father's Day Schoepflin Sanders Golf Invitational. Doing ok.
Sequoia ... Counted the bumblebees and honey bees today with Grandma Shirley. Played in sand at OMSI barefoot. Ate all the chocolate chips off his banana cake. Hard to complain!

<s>Brandon ... get modem to take windsurfing so we can do the service ... by next call (Thursday the 23rd)
Brandon ... contact Swift about the house raising concept ... by next call
Brandon ... pull decisions from the vision exercise ... by next call
Brandon ... line Ryan Rhoads up for the caricatures for the Space Elevator conference ... by next call
Brandon ... find dvd for lori and Ben's text to include with the dvd ... by next call</s>
Shelley ... send another invitation to the Solstice potluck picnic (and go door to door) ... by tomorrow (actually decided not to)
<s>Shelley ... do grocery shopping for the hike ... tomorrow
Brandon, Shelley, and Ben ... think about the SolSeedCreed ... by Saturday</s>

Brandon ... get ticket to space elevator conference ... by end of June
Brandon ... get address for Kevin to Shelley ... by end of the call
Brandon ... try to get back the book content on TypeWith.Me ... by tomorrow
Shelley ... send Jerry email about the service call ... by tonight
Shelley ... mail the dvd to lori ... by next call
Shelley ... send book to Ben and 10 books to Kevin F ... by next call
Ben ... start the in--depth vision document (to move toward a firm decision) ... by next call

10am Saturday June 25, 2011 ... Jerry (or Shelley if not Jerry) Rotation: Brandon, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben

Brandon has a Buckman Community Association meetings, 6-8:30 PM on Thursdays July 14 and August 11
We can probably just start the business call a bit later on those days

Village: Start construction on either a backyard cottage or a renovated basement living space
Outreach: Two more contributing members
Media: Finish the two books and maintain SpaceWiki
Spiritual practice: Maintain the spiritual practice (weekly service calls, in-person solstice and equinox events)
Service: $10,000 or 200 hour contribution (or some combination) to a service project that brings life
Industry: Apply for an SBIR grant related to launching life to another world (possibly a space catapult)

Seed Village
Yellow: Get a good sense for the cost of the basement option (practically a bid)
Green: Either decide not to do the basement option, or create concept plans for the basement
Super Green: Get at least two bids for construction of the basement option
Outreach
Yellow: Identify one likely Meetup Group in Portland to participate in
Green: Identify at least 4 prospective SolSeed members by declaration by attending meetups for that group
Super Green: Hold a meetup for that group that introduces SolSeed

Media:
Yellow: Attend the Space Elevator Conference with our SpaceWiki table
(super) Green: Publish a draft of SolSeed: Helping Life Thrive, On Earth And Beyond (sans pictures)

Spiritual practice
Yellow: Have an equinox celebration
Green: Maintain the weekly calls, experiment with some sort of daily practice that lasts at least two weeks
Super Green: Incorporate the Church

Shelley ... is asleep (gently snoring)
Ben ... I would say it went pretty well
Brandon ... feel good about hitting our goals, bad about needing to go over on the work-bees