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Monday Apr 7, 2014 #
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So it is Thursday (3 days ago), one day before almost 400 competitors arrive for the 2014 Flying Pig. I'm at lunch, driving back to the office. I get a series of text messages from Orunner:
We need to talk.
We may have a big problem.
You got a minute?
-------------> Five min (my reply)
Call me
So---I'm worried. Five minutes later, I'm parking my car, walking to the office, and I'm dialing. "What's up?"
There were basically two problems.
He didn't think he could do the Interscholastics Scoring unless we had a multi-day, combined time capability, which we don't have. (We own OE2003 for single events, and MT2003 for multiple-day, combined-time events, but we only have the newer OE2010 Pro for single events.
He also was concerned about his ability to provide a separate spreadsheet to do the combined time calculation.
We go back and forth, but it's pretty clear we need to purchase the multi-day add-on for OE2010. I'm thinking, "OMG OMG OMG." I've got two nights to figure out the *new* version of MT. I've never used MT2003 during an event. I've looked at results from finished events, but I've never used MT, and I've never set it up. So I'm concerned. I'm thinking, "OMG OMG OMG," but I'm saying, "If you think we need it, let's just get the club debit card and buy it. Like right now."
Now, we didn't need it until Saturday. The Friday event was good with OE, so fortunately, I had two nights to figure it out. But unfortunately, the first night was going to be spent labeling and programming the controls at Mike's house.
I know I'm not going to look at it until late Thursday (ended up being like 2 or 3 am on Friday morning), so I fire off an email to Kent to see if he can generate an MT import file (actually OE 2010 (M), but I'm going to say "MT"). Somehow, I'm not sure if I asked her (I don't remember asking), or if Kent did, but somehow, Valerie calls me (or texts or something), and says that she's on it. Immediately, I'm relaxing. I'm thinking, "I might actually get some sleep Friday night."
So we had the missing runner thing, which was stressful, but it meant we pushed really hard to get controls out of the woods (we read all the boxes in the woods except 3 or 4 maybe). Which helped because I needed to finish creating the set needed for Sunday's controls, which were needed Saturday so they could be placed on the stands already in the woods).
I honestly don't remember when I got home Friday night, but I know I was up til 3:30am or 4am importing Valerie's competitor file, plus importing the courses and all the other stuff. I quit at 3:30 or 4am because I couldn't think of anything more that needed to be done.
Saturday was long, grueling, and very stressful. All day long Orunner was having trouble with the IS calculation spreadsheet. I helped as much as I could, but when we left on Saturday, neither of us was sure that we were going to have either IS results or combined total results (at all) on Sunday afternoon.
I did what I could with MT at home, but it wasn't much. Pat, I learned later, spent four hours at home painstakingly debugging the IS spreadsheet. He finally discoved a check for Male/Female that verified the correct course, and it started to work sometime late Saturday night.
I was late arriving at Mounds on Sunday because I was completely sleep-deprived. I had averaged 4 hrs sleep for the last three nights. When I got to the event center on Sunday I made sure we set all of our computers to Stage 2. Sunday was completely different from Saturday. Everything went smoothly. I hadn't heard that Pat had fixed the spreadsheet, so I finally asked him, and he was like, "Oh, I got it working."
I started thinking about endgames, and I realized I needed to check the combined two-day results. I did, and ***It was working!*** I needed to create a layout so it would print with my only printer, the Epson receipt printer.
So now I'm at home, it's 12:49am, and I'm trying to wind down enough to sleep. Almost there.
It was a great weekend. I spend a lot of time with my friends, doing somethnig we love.
We need to talk.
We may have a big problem.
You got a minute?
-------------> Five min (my reply)
Call me
So---I'm worried. Five minutes later, I'm parking my car, walking to the office, and I'm dialing. "What's up?"
There were basically two problems.
He didn't think he could do the Interscholastics Scoring unless we had a multi-day, combined time capability, which we don't have. (We own OE2003 for single events, and MT2003 for multiple-day, combined-time events, but we only have the newer OE2010 Pro for single events.
He also was concerned about his ability to provide a separate spreadsheet to do the combined time calculation.
We go back and forth, but it's pretty clear we need to purchase the multi-day add-on for OE2010. I'm thinking, "OMG OMG OMG." I've got two nights to figure out the *new* version of MT. I've never used MT2003 during an event. I've looked at results from finished events, but I've never used MT, and I've never set it up. So I'm concerned. I'm thinking, "OMG OMG OMG," but I'm saying, "If you think we need it, let's just get the club debit card and buy it. Like right now."
Now, we didn't need it until Saturday. The Friday event was good with OE, so fortunately, I had two nights to figure it out. But unfortunately, the first night was going to be spent labeling and programming the controls at Mike's house.
I know I'm not going to look at it until late Thursday (ended up being like 2 or 3 am on Friday morning), so I fire off an email to Kent to see if he can generate an MT import file (actually OE 2010 (M), but I'm going to say "MT"). Somehow, I'm not sure if I asked her (I don't remember asking), or if Kent did, but somehow, Valerie calls me (or texts or something), and says that she's on it. Immediately, I'm relaxing. I'm thinking, "I might actually get some sleep Friday night."
So we had the missing runner thing, which was stressful, but it meant we pushed really hard to get controls out of the woods (we read all the boxes in the woods except 3 or 4 maybe). Which helped because I needed to finish creating the set needed for Sunday's controls, which were needed Saturday so they could be placed on the stands already in the woods).
I honestly don't remember when I got home Friday night, but I know I was up til 3:30am or 4am importing Valerie's competitor file, plus importing the courses and all the other stuff. I quit at 3:30 or 4am because I couldn't think of anything more that needed to be done.
Saturday was long, grueling, and very stressful. All day long Orunner was having trouble with the IS calculation spreadsheet. I helped as much as I could, but when we left on Saturday, neither of us was sure that we were going to have either IS results or combined total results (at all) on Sunday afternoon.
I did what I could with MT at home, but it wasn't much. Pat, I learned later, spent four hours at home painstakingly debugging the IS spreadsheet. He finally discoved a check for Male/Female that verified the correct course, and it started to work sometime late Saturday night.
I was late arriving at Mounds on Sunday because I was completely sleep-deprived. I had averaged 4 hrs sleep for the last three nights. When I got to the event center on Sunday I made sure we set all of our computers to Stage 2. Sunday was completely different from Saturday. Everything went smoothly. I hadn't heard that Pat had fixed the spreadsheet, so I finally asked him, and he was like, "Oh, I got it working."
I started thinking about endgames, and I realized I needed to check the combined two-day results. I did, and ***It was working!*** I needed to create a layout so it would print with my only printer, the Epson receipt printer.
So now I'm at home, it's 12:49am, and I'm trying to wind down enough to sleep. Almost there.
It was a great weekend. I spend a lot of time with my friends, doing somethnig we love.