Jim, that falls under the HINDSIGHT category.
I know everyone keeps thanking Vernon and me, but I just have to say that
before group one, I was sitting there in the motorhome, occasionally peaking
out in fear, and what I saw made me feel so warm and fuzzy inside. Instead
of just our ten member set up crew, what I saw was this village of people
setting up and marking cones. In the face of a potentially day ruining late
start, everyone got involved to solve the problem. And yeah, okay, so I
yelled at everyone to get off the course so we could start... before the
course was even finished... well, did anyone get mad at me when you very
well could have? No, you didn't! You are all kind and wonderful people! And
when I told course workers, "Yeah, just walk around until you find someone
who needs relief," rather than look at me like, "Do you think I'm suicidal?"
you all just did it! You risked your lives for me, for Vernon, the
Boondoggle, and most importantly, the San Francisco Region, the Region that
Knows How. I do more than thank you. I salute you.
Boondoggle Bucks for all!
-Katie
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Ochi [mailto:jochi@ricochet.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 3:22 AM
To: Smokerbros@aol.com; ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Trailer crew in 3rd heat
One option that we need to remember that we have is that the motorhome is a
lot more mobile than the old trailer. If we find that it's not working out
during an event, we can adjust the position fairly quickly - if we don't
want to pause the event, we can move it during the mid-event course
walk. Now, this isn't a substitute for trying to put it in the right place
and checking the sight lines before the event starts, but it's a way out if
the RV roadies don't get it right.
Jim
At 01:20 AM 1/31/2001 -0500, Smokerbros@aol.com wrote:
>Katie Kelly writes:
>
>
> > This is a serious problem and if something isn't done to fix it, we're
> going
> > to have nightmares like this forever. That motorhome is really comfy and
> > convenient, but when you can't see who's at the line and who's
finishing,
> > and who's out on course, it defeats the whole purpose. We were better
off
> >
>
>It's amazing to me how we continually fail to adapt. When we had the
>trailer, the timing crews insisted in having sorter/announcer/timer/writer
in
>order left to right, even if the course started on the right, where we
should
>have gone the other direction.
>
>Now, we insist on the sorter sitting at the back table, when they could
have
>done the job so much better from one of the front seats and passed them
back
>to the announcer. We HAVE done this before (rarely) but it works... The
>nice thing about the motorhome is its adaptability to different course
>layouts, and it amazes me that in the hotbed of "out of the box thinking"
we
>can't put the card sorter in a place where they can see the starting line.
>
>CHD
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