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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.