I could try to do that .. Look out everyone .. Ill be volunteering to
announce during the slush series..
----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly, Katie <kkelly@spss.com>
To: 'lllllsharp' <lllllsharp@email.msn.com>; Kevin Lahey
<kml@patheticgeek.net>; Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto}
<PETER.THANA@Roche.COM>
Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 9:13 AM
Subject: RE: 2000 Winter Slush Series-revised
> 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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