No, Larry, I think you'd make a GREAT announcer. Why don't you start at the
next GGF event?
Katie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lllllsharp [mailto:lllllsharp@email.msn.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 7:36 PM
> To: Kevin Lahey; Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto}
> Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: 2000 Winter Slush Series-revised
>
>
> I think maybe I could try to annouce once in awhile .. what
> do you think
> Katie? or am I to obnoxious?
> Larry
> Focus #6
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Lahey <kml@patheticgeek.net>
> To: Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto} <PETER.THANA@Roche.COM>
> Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 6:33 PM
> Subject: Re: 2000 Winter Slush Series-revised
>
>
> > In message
> <418F66121D9DD311A54B0000F8019788015CC358@rplmsem1.pal.roche.com>
> > "Thana, Peter" writes:
> > >The fact is though, that we didn't especially know what we
> were doing
> going
> > >in, but there just wasn't anyone else to help.
> >
> > It really is hard to learn everything. I thought I had it
> all figured
> > out, right up until I tried to supervise the RV setup at
> Marina, after
> > about four hours of sleep. "Oh, yeah, just plug in the displays any
> > old way -- they're idiot proof." "Yeah, the timers are
> okay as long as
> > they are blinking, don't worry about it." Ugh. Not quite.
> >
> > As an occasional event chair, I really wish that more
> experienced folks
> > would step up to learn the trailer jobs. Many times I've had nobody
> > signed up to work the trailer, and plenty of people with many years
> > of experience ready to go out and shag cones. When I'd try to get
> > volunteers[*] to step up, I often wound up with rookies like Peter
> > (more like an old-timer at this point) who were just willing to help
> > out any way they could. Good on them!
> >
> > The trailer isn't for everyone (I get flustered trying to do card
> > sorting, and I make a truly lousy announcer), but if you've come
> > out to a year's worth of autox, you really oughta step up and learn
> > an extra job or two!
> >
> > Kevin
> > kml@patheticgeek.net
> >
> > [*] Before I learned to just tell people they were gonna take a job,
> > rather than waiting forever for someone to step
> forward. Take it
> > from me, that's about the only way to do it.
>
>
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