The event was one of the most pleasant we've run this year. Thanks to you
all. One tiny correction: the airplane is U.S. Coast Guard, not the Navy!
--Pat K
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>From: "Anthony Tabacco" <tony@atarchitects.com>
>To: "Jake Hodges" <jake@codeworm.com>
>Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Round 14 Thank-Yous
>Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2003, 7:40 AM
>
> Jake,
> Set-up Crew was Ed Rito, Barry Chafin, Mathew Rehrer, Greg Retkoski, Donna
> Barham, Paul Barham, Alan Gruner, Charlies Cox, Arnold Escano, and Andrew
> Clark. Bryan, Don, Durk, there in the morning having to pitch in doing
> routine boxing and chalking, were there at the closeout. If I missed anyone
> I am truly sorry because it was so needed and appreciated.
>
> Special thanks to Natalie for working multiple trailer jobs during the day
> and for the event pickup (She warned me about collecting licenses for funs
> but I tried the honor system for the second time; My faith was misplaced).
> All in all, a good day. The marina staff was great, we landed the navy plane
> without incident or delay so we have that procedure down now. And Jake, you
> did a great job and a really neat course, and it was a pleasure.
> Tony
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jake Hodges" <jake@codeworm.com>
> To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 7:04 AM
> Subject: Round 14 Thank-Yous
>
>
>> I guess I'll begin at the beginning.. Huge, huge thank-yous to Tony
> Tabacco
>> and John Stimpson for helping with the course. John helped me piece
>> together some scattered ideas and about 10 different course drawings to
>> come up with a fun line. Tony reviewed it for safety and sanity. In one
>> way I kind of regret the tight, nasty finish which was changed for safety
>> at the last minute,. but it really wasn't THAT bad. It was a good lesson
>> for me.. (If I had it to do again, I think I might have moved that last
>> slalom cone in the second slalom to the right, or even removed it to make
>> the end flow better..)
>>
>> Second, I'd like to thank our AWESOME setup crew! Tony's got your
>> names.. They got there EARLY and put down the course with cruel
> efficiency
>> and accuracy. The usual suspects were there from sun-up to motorhome
>> send-off.. Bryan drove the damn RV all the way down there, Don brought a
>> car full of newly refinished worker station signs and got immediately on
>> timer setup, Jeremy had the reg table on it's feet before the first cone
>> was stood upright... It's so automatic that I don't even remember who I
>> need to thank! It just happens!
>>
>> Third, It's a beautiful thing to see people come forward and volunteer
> for
>> lightly staffed work groups. One of the morning groups was five or six
>> people short, and group 8 only had half a trailer staff and five course
>> workers sign up! I had all the volunteers I needed for those groups.
> That
>> makes me so, so happy.
>>
>> I'd like to thank the timer gods for smiling upon our event and leaving
>> enough time for three fun runs to help ease the pain of those who did
>> volunteer to work through the last run group.
>>
>> Finally, to the TINY number of volunteers (perhaps 4 besides Tony and me)
>> who stayed to help us pack up the motorhome, I salute you! I guess we
>> should have been more clear about what it means to "pack up". Watching
> the
>> fun-runners stream out of the gate while we loaded the motorhome was sad,
>> but we got it done and we were only a few minutes late getting off the
>> site. Fortunately the Angry Old Marina Guy(tm) was distracted by a gas
>> leak under his rusty old VW bus, so he left us alone for the first time
>> that day.
>>
>> Thanks again, everyone. I had a blast!
>>
>> Jake
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