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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