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Tuesday Oct 30, 2012 #
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weight:199lbs
Most significant - back below 200 after ballooning to 205 on the weekend. Legs/ankles are less trunk like. Yeah!
And, I am all set if Valerie forms:
http://www.weatherstreet.com/hurricane/2012/Valeri...
No progress on putting my thoughts in writing for Friday-Sunday at NAOC.
However! After a slow start to the day, I did get all of the meet gear redistributed, and now the living room and the two guest bedrooms are clear.
Worked solidly from noon to 3 (in between naps).
Still have the race clock in the back of the van to return, but that is for another day.
Not sure if I will survive 2013, and the events I want to do, but what a way to go out?!
And, I am all set if Valerie forms:
http://www.weatherstreet.com/hurricane/2012/Valeri...
No progress on putting my thoughts in writing for Friday-Sunday at NAOC.
However! After a slow start to the day, I did get all of the meet gear redistributed, and now the living room and the two guest bedrooms are clear.
Worked solidly from noon to 3 (in between naps).
Still have the race clock in the back of the van to return, but that is for another day.
Not sure if I will survive 2013, and the events I want to do, but what a way to go out?!
Monday Oct 29, 2012 #
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Day off work 1:
In bed until 8.
Would have stretched it until 9, except one of the gutters was overflowing, and as the ladder (wo)man, I had to go deal with it.
Donned my full rain suit, because, heck, I think it is only required like once every 2-3 years. I am surprised that it isn't dry rotted. Gutter cleaned out, flow restored, back to bed.
Roger entices me out of bed ~ 9 with the offer of eggs and scrapple. OK, those of you who know what that is, and are saying Yuck, well, I don't blame you. And, those of you who have no idea what scrapple is, then you are better off (but think a fried variation of spam).
A bit of computer work, and then nap time from 11-1. Yeah for naps!
The rest of the afternoon is a blur, but it included moving about 1/10 of the piles of A-meet stuff from the living room to the basement, as well as visiting the 90 year old widow across the street (excuse #2 for donning the rain suit).
Tried to concentrate on writing the rest of the NAOC report - it didn't even get close to happening. Did send results to ONA.
Another day off tomorrow. If we have power, then I will try to knock the report out. Or, maybe I will take a four hour nap instead.
In bed until 8.
Would have stretched it until 9, except one of the gutters was overflowing, and as the ladder (wo)man, I had to go deal with it.
Donned my full rain suit, because, heck, I think it is only required like once every 2-3 years. I am surprised that it isn't dry rotted. Gutter cleaned out, flow restored, back to bed.
Roger entices me out of bed ~ 9 with the offer of eggs and scrapple. OK, those of you who know what that is, and are saying Yuck, well, I don't blame you. And, those of you who have no idea what scrapple is, then you are better off (but think a fried variation of spam).
A bit of computer work, and then nap time from 11-1. Yeah for naps!
The rest of the afternoon is a blur, but it included moving about 1/10 of the piles of A-meet stuff from the living room to the basement, as well as visiting the 90 year old widow across the street (excuse #2 for donning the rain suit).
Tried to concentrate on writing the rest of the NAOC report - it didn't even get close to happening. Did send results to ONA.
Another day off tomorrow. If we have power, then I will try to knock the report out. Or, maybe I will take a four hour nap instead.
C • Spam 13
Sunday Oct 28, 2012 #
Event: QOC Hemlock Overlook
Orienteering (Hemlock White) 30:41 [1] *** 2.2 km (13:57 / km) +65m 12:09 / km
spiked:9/11c weight:201lbs
Yes, that is "orienteering" in my log. Baby steps...again.
C • Like 7
Saturday Oct 27, 2012 #
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Phone rings about 3:30 pm. Sarah is in the area, can they come by for a visit? Thank goodness I answered the phone! Roger would have said no, because he is not good with spontaneous, but I said yes, of course!! And, even he admitted that it was a wonderful few hours with Sarah, Lailah and Matt.
Thursday Oct 25, 2012 #
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weight:200lbs
200x2
Ankles look like tree trunks
Ugh, Ugh, Ugh, Ugh
Ankles look like tree trunks
Ugh, Ugh, Ugh, Ugh
Sunday Oct 21, 2012 #
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Friday Oct 19, 2012 #
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OK, I am working on filling in the log entries for these dates...stay tuned. I will try to put up the entries for Friday-Sunday all at one time.
Thursday Oct 18, 2012 #
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The calm before the storm...
PEEC provided us breakfast, including a very delicious breakfast pizza - scrambled eggs on flat bread with cheese and sausage or tomatoes. A whole warm meal eaten with your hands, how cool is that?! Oh, right, pizza - I do that all of the time. OK, super tasty, so kudos to PEEC for the breakfast pizza!
From there, it was back to the war room. Tried to concentrate on making sure the software was installed on all computers, and deciding what switch, router, hub, or whatever was being used where. Merging hardware from four separate sources is a concern.
Yeah, things are coming together on the hardware from. Vadim arrives, and at some point, he gets the O-Lynx events set up, after I show him the process for getting the courses copied to the classes. Software is coming together.
Very quickly, things start going south, at least in terms of quiet time. People are arriving for packet pickup. Request for changes start rolling my way. Each one breaks my very limited concentration. Agh! I want to hang at packet pickup and see everyone, but I need to run through everything again, and again, or at least once.
One visit was with JG from a local to me NJROTC. He made me some adapters for the radio control units.
Dinner time arrives, and then it is 10 PM again already. Time to pack up and go to bed. Tomorrow, I can not drive my van to the arena, and I will be dropped off with all of my stuff, so I sort things into weatherproof containers so that it won't matter if things are out in the rain or not.
Go to bed. Sleep quite a bit better in Cabin 1 - two double beds, with fresh sheets and a heater that is much quieter than the one in Cabin 7.
PEEC provided us breakfast, including a very delicious breakfast pizza - scrambled eggs on flat bread with cheese and sausage or tomatoes. A whole warm meal eaten with your hands, how cool is that?! Oh, right, pizza - I do that all of the time. OK, super tasty, so kudos to PEEC for the breakfast pizza!
From there, it was back to the war room. Tried to concentrate on making sure the software was installed on all computers, and deciding what switch, router, hub, or whatever was being used where. Merging hardware from four separate sources is a concern.
Yeah, things are coming together on the hardware from. Vadim arrives, and at some point, he gets the O-Lynx events set up, after I show him the process for getting the courses copied to the classes. Software is coming together.
Very quickly, things start going south, at least in terms of quiet time. People are arriving for packet pickup. Request for changes start rolling my way. Each one breaks my very limited concentration. Agh! I want to hang at packet pickup and see everyone, but I need to run through everything again, and again, or at least once.
One visit was with JG from a local to me NJROTC. He made me some adapters for the radio control units.
Dinner time arrives, and then it is 10 PM again already. Time to pack up and go to bed. Tomorrow, I can not drive my van to the arena, and I will be dropped off with all of my stuff, so I sort things into weatherproof containers so that it won't matter if things are out in the rain or not.
Go to bed. Sleep quite a bit better in Cabin 1 - two double beds, with fresh sheets and a heater that is much quieter than the one in Cabin 7.
Wednesday Oct 17, 2012 #
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Alarm set for early, well, not actually set because Roger always wakes me up around 5 when he starts opening the creaking front door looking for the newspaper.
As is my practice since the iPad became part of my life, I checked my email before getting out of bed. Email from Hugh that he was running late, so the day went from hitting the road at 6 AM to waiting until 9 AM or so. Not going to fall back to sleep, so I got up and piddled around a bit, loaded up the expensive stuff in the car, and headed to the Home Depot for a last couple of items that I might need.
The Home Depot trip, and bad WDC traffic sort of dictated an alternate route north, and I ended up taking the beltway, 95, Baltimore beltway, 83, etc. Boring, but a change from the usual route. This also allowed me to visit the hughest hunting paraphernalia store ever. Just sad that I wasn't ever so cold to need my new camo headband this weekend.
Made it to PEEC safely, and started setting stuff up in the "War Room." PEEC kindly handed over their EcoZone learning lab, including a Beaver Lodge in the former outdoor pool, for our exclusive use for the weekend. Sadly, I didn't get a picture of the cool stuff in there. I did get this picture.
It was huge to be able to unload out stuff, stretch it out to emulate the conditions at the event, and to leave all of the crap that we wouldn't need each day after all.
Worked several hours with Hugh that afternoon, and I should have taken advantage of the quiet before the storm, but my mind was all over the place, mostly just sorting out what software was on what computer, and what cables went to where. All of this could have been done ahead of time, but I was super ADD this past couple of weeks, so I couldn't do it at home.
They kicked us out of there at 10 PM, or more importantly, considering that we had the key to the place, Sandy kicked me out of there at 10, and I headed to bed in Cabin 7.
The night in Cabin 7 was horrible. I was cold most of the night, and the bed was too small. There was also a light flashing from the smoke detector that drove me crazy. So happy to see morning.
As is my practice since the iPad became part of my life, I checked my email before getting out of bed. Email from Hugh that he was running late, so the day went from hitting the road at 6 AM to waiting until 9 AM or so. Not going to fall back to sleep, so I got up and piddled around a bit, loaded up the expensive stuff in the car, and headed to the Home Depot for a last couple of items that I might need.
The Home Depot trip, and bad WDC traffic sort of dictated an alternate route north, and I ended up taking the beltway, 95, Baltimore beltway, 83, etc. Boring, but a change from the usual route. This also allowed me to visit the hughest hunting paraphernalia store ever. Just sad that I wasn't ever so cold to need my new camo headband this weekend.
Made it to PEEC safely, and started setting stuff up in the "War Room." PEEC kindly handed over their EcoZone learning lab, including a Beaver Lodge in the former outdoor pool, for our exclusive use for the weekend. Sadly, I didn't get a picture of the cool stuff in there. I did get this picture.
It was huge to be able to unload out stuff, stretch it out to emulate the conditions at the event, and to leave all of the crap that we wouldn't need each day after all.
Worked several hours with Hugh that afternoon, and I should have taken advantage of the quiet before the storm, but my mind was all over the place, mostly just sorting out what software was on what computer, and what cables went to where. All of this could have been done ahead of time, but I was super ADD this past couple of weeks, so I couldn't do it at home.
They kicked us out of there at 10 PM, or more importantly, considering that we had the key to the place, Sandy kicked me out of there at 10, and I headed to bed in Cabin 7.
The night in Cabin 7 was horrible. I was cold most of the night, and the bed was too small. There was also a light flashing from the smoke detector that drove me crazy. So happy to see morning.
Tuesday Oct 16, 2012 #
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First day of my week vacation. WooHoo!!
Scheduled the annual furnace maintenance for 9-12, and decided to use the time to load the car. Figured they wouldn't show up until 4, probably after increasingly frantic phone calls from me. Was pleasantly surprised to see the truck roll up about 9:30, maintenance done, new hot water heater pitch avoided, and back to loading the car by 10. It is going to be a good day.
Had removed the two captain chairs from the second row, so the whole back was empty. Good thing, because I filled it all the way up to the level that I am still comfortable driving in, and I avoided having to put anything on the roof.
Ran a couple of errands, had a nice dinner with Roger, and headed to bed at a reasonable hour.
Scheduled the annual furnace maintenance for 9-12, and decided to use the time to load the car. Figured they wouldn't show up until 4, probably after increasingly frantic phone calls from me. Was pleasantly surprised to see the truck roll up about 9:30, maintenance done, new hot water heater pitch avoided, and back to loading the car by 10. It is going to be a good day.
Had removed the two captain chairs from the second row, so the whole back was empty. Good thing, because I filled it all the way up to the level that I am still comfortable driving in, and I avoided having to put anything on the roof.
Ran a couple of errands, had a nice dinner with Roger, and headed to bed at a reasonable hour.
Monday Oct 15, 2012 #
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Housing
The beginning…the mundane…in addition to being Results/Download person, I offered to manage the PEEC housing, in one of my more stupid moments. My reasoning was that since I wasn’t the Registrar, Housing Coordinator would allow me to have my foot in the door with the Registrar. As Results/Download person, if the registration data is poor, then managing things race day can be problematic.
This actually went quite well. People seemed to make their own housing groupings, or I was able to group people together in a reasonable fashion. Of course, the two CSU lodges were the place to be, and they even had a sprint inside.
As I was making the housing assignments, I fretted about putting unknown people together, but I found this in an AP log: “I went back to the cabin very discouraged. I really felt like packing up and leaving. The guys in the cabin were very helpful…I had wondered what being in a cabin with 6 guys I had never met would be like, it was very up lifting since we all had a strong passion for Orienteering. They really helped me technically and mentally.”
So, I give me an A for Housing Coordinator. Also receiving an A+ is Janet Porter, who took over the distribution of the housing assignments and linens on Thursday and Friday. Thank you, Janet (and Sandy for arranging the takeover)! This was invaluable to me.
However, the people who thought it was OK to stay without paying? I give those people an F.
Registration and the Registrar
As I mentioned above, I like to keep an eye on the registration data so that it doesn’t come back and bite me in the butt on race day. Doug Sevon was the registrar, and it was his first A-meet as registrar. Little did he know about the demanding people he would have to deal with. Sorry about that, Doug, I can’t help myself. Oh, the participants, not me?!
My biggest concern was that we would end up with lots of different databases which would be out of sync. I think I was the only one who messed up when I skipped some lunch tickets for Thursday. Doug gets an A+.
Name Tags
Besides anything related to results and the radio controls, my personal desire was name tags. It wasn’t a DVOA priority, but I wanted them, so I made it happen. Major thanks to Amy Louden for helping me cut them out and laminate them on the Saturday before the event. I saw lots of people wearing them all weekend, which made me very happy. A+ to Amy for her assistance, A+ to me for the follow through when I didn’t really have the whole day to dedicate to making name tags and tickets, C for the somewhat amateurish execution.
BTW, I brought the laminating machine, paper, and a color printer, so I could make name tags on the fly. We didn’t get one for everyone, but it was close. Hah! I could be anything I wanted, and after my original name tag went missing, I changed to SI-Guru for the weekend, and then the other one turned up as well.
Tickets
As someone pointed out ahead of time – “Holy moley. It's just a ticket.” True statement, but I wanted something more substantial so that people couldn’t claim at the door that they had lost their ticket, since they are generally of the raffle ticket variety, and thus easily lost. That didn’t totally prevent the “I left my ticket at the hotel” excuse for the Friday night dinner, but I think the tickets were generally successful, well, except for the fact that they had to be cut off of the hook. Idea – A+, kindergarten design - B, ease of handing them in – F.
FYI, laminating the tickets (800) and name tags (700+) took ~11 hours on the Saturday before the event. Time I should have/could have used doing other stuff, but at the end of the day, I was pleased with the result.
Lunch Bags
So, the last time I was involved with housing and a bagged lunch, there weren’t enough bagged lunches for everyone when they went to pick them up. This time I was determined to have a lunch bag for everyone who signed up for housing, so I made labels for everyone (or almost everyone – sorry for screwing that up for those 10 people on Thursday). Amy put a label on the bags and I handed them in. Little did I know that a bigger bag was required since two sandwiches and the other stuff wouldn’t fit into the little brown bag that you get at the grocery store.
OK, the lunches turned out to be the same turkey sandwich each day, but the sides were different. And, the PEEC staff was super accommodating! When a father of a vegetarian mentioned that his daughter had been throwing her sandwiches out Friday and Saturday, the PEEC staff made an alternate lunch as I waited on Sunday morning. Perhaps PB&J and a cheese sandwich sucked, but it was vegetarian. A+ to the PEEC staff for being as flexible as possible.
The beginning…the mundane…in addition to being Results/Download person, I offered to manage the PEEC housing, in one of my more stupid moments. My reasoning was that since I wasn’t the Registrar, Housing Coordinator would allow me to have my foot in the door with the Registrar. As Results/Download person, if the registration data is poor, then managing things race day can be problematic.
This actually went quite well. People seemed to make their own housing groupings, or I was able to group people together in a reasonable fashion. Of course, the two CSU lodges were the place to be, and they even had a sprint inside.
As I was making the housing assignments, I fretted about putting unknown people together, but I found this in an AP log: “I went back to the cabin very discouraged. I really felt like packing up and leaving. The guys in the cabin were very helpful…I had wondered what being in a cabin with 6 guys I had never met would be like, it was very up lifting since we all had a strong passion for Orienteering. They really helped me technically and mentally.”
So, I give me an A for Housing Coordinator. Also receiving an A+ is Janet Porter, who took over the distribution of the housing assignments and linens on Thursday and Friday. Thank you, Janet (and Sandy for arranging the takeover)! This was invaluable to me.
However, the people who thought it was OK to stay without paying? I give those people an F.
Registration and the Registrar
As I mentioned above, I like to keep an eye on the registration data so that it doesn’t come back and bite me in the butt on race day. Doug Sevon was the registrar, and it was his first A-meet as registrar. Little did he know about the demanding people he would have to deal with. Sorry about that, Doug, I can’t help myself. Oh, the participants, not me?!
My biggest concern was that we would end up with lots of different databases which would be out of sync. I think I was the only one who messed up when I skipped some lunch tickets for Thursday. Doug gets an A+.
Name Tags
Besides anything related to results and the radio controls, my personal desire was name tags. It wasn’t a DVOA priority, but I wanted them, so I made it happen. Major thanks to Amy Louden for helping me cut them out and laminate them on the Saturday before the event. I saw lots of people wearing them all weekend, which made me very happy. A+ to Amy for her assistance, A+ to me for the follow through when I didn’t really have the whole day to dedicate to making name tags and tickets, C for the somewhat amateurish execution.
BTW, I brought the laminating machine, paper, and a color printer, so I could make name tags on the fly. We didn’t get one for everyone, but it was close. Hah! I could be anything I wanted, and after my original name tag went missing, I changed to SI-Guru for the weekend, and then the other one turned up as well.
Tickets
As someone pointed out ahead of time – “Holy moley. It's just a ticket.” True statement, but I wanted something more substantial so that people couldn’t claim at the door that they had lost their ticket, since they are generally of the raffle ticket variety, and thus easily lost. That didn’t totally prevent the “I left my ticket at the hotel” excuse for the Friday night dinner, but I think the tickets were generally successful, well, except for the fact that they had to be cut off of the hook. Idea – A+, kindergarten design - B, ease of handing them in – F.
FYI, laminating the tickets (800) and name tags (700+) took ~11 hours on the Saturday before the event. Time I should have/could have used doing other stuff, but at the end of the day, I was pleased with the result.
Lunch Bags
So, the last time I was involved with housing and a bagged lunch, there weren’t enough bagged lunches for everyone when they went to pick them up. This time I was determined to have a lunch bag for everyone who signed up for housing, so I made labels for everyone (or almost everyone – sorry for screwing that up for those 10 people on Thursday). Amy put a label on the bags and I handed them in. Little did I know that a bigger bag was required since two sandwiches and the other stuff wouldn’t fit into the little brown bag that you get at the grocery store.
OK, the lunches turned out to be the same turkey sandwich each day, but the sides were different. And, the PEEC staff was super accommodating! When a father of a vegetarian mentioned that his daughter had been throwing her sandwiches out Friday and Saturday, the PEEC staff made an alternate lunch as I waited on Sunday morning. Perhaps PB&J and a cheese sandwich sucked, but it was vegetarian. A+ to the PEEC staff for being as flexible as possible.
Sunday Oct 14, 2012 #
Event: QOC Swanson Rd
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Sunday Oct 7, 2012 #
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Cast is off. Yeah!!! Back in the removable boot for three weeks, mostly to get me through NAOC without over doing it and having a setback.
Speaking of NAOC...what about that F50+ class!! Next to F-21+, it has the next greatest number of women registered, with at least 4 former USA WOC team members. Should be exciting to watch.
Let the trash talk begin.
Speaking of NAOC...what about that F50+ class!! Next to F-21+, it has the next greatest number of women registered, with at least 4 former USA WOC team members. Should be exciting to watch.
Let the trash talk begin.
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Watching an episode of Perry Mason in lieu of assigning start times any more today. It was filmed in 1958...the year I was born. Not sure if that is sad or bad.
Wednesday Oct 3, 2012 #
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The countdown is on - 38 hours until the cast is removed. You should all be grateful for the fact that the Internet can't transmit odors yet, because it isn't pretty!! Got the foot pretty wet last Friday, but I had a date with Lailah that day, with Roger as my chauffeur, so no way I was going to get it replaced.
So, I sort of dried it, and it was only a little sticky (and stinky) in the heel area, but I got it wet again today. Since it is coming off on Friday at 9 AM, I am just hoping that the science experiment won't be to disgusting when it is removed. I feel sorry for the cast guy, because I am guessing that mine isn't the worst he sees in a given week.
Hope it has done the trick, and if not, I am going to pretend it has and suck up the pain for the rest of my life, since there are worst things that can be wrong, like a stinky foot!!! ;-)
So, I sort of dried it, and it was only a little sticky (and stinky) in the heel area, but I got it wet again today. Since it is coming off on Friday at 9 AM, I am just hoping that the science experiment won't be to disgusting when it is removed. I feel sorry for the cast guy, because I am guessing that mine isn't the worst he sees in a given week.
Hope it has done the trick, and if not, I am going to pretend it has and suck up the pain for the rest of my life, since there are worst things that can be wrong, like a stinky foot!!! ;-)