October 21 |
0745 [Jan] Folks are starting to mingle about. The dubbing stations are scheduled to be set up today. Ted and Roy should be here any time now. Judges will be doing more practicing. The fishbowl got a fresh paint job overnight. Tim has arrived at 8:15. 1000 This place is hopping...now back to work...
1115 ...everyone please ignore the empty results tables on the event links; they will be repopulated once each event starts and we have some actual results to post...
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1600 I just posted melissa nelson's Spotlight newsletter over on the tidbits link page. There is a large PDF file with photos and a smaller Word doc that is text only. Good stuff, thanks melissa! Michael is going a good laugh out of something Bags says to the left... ...the overall mood coming out of the teams can be said like this: Happy to be here and great to see you! It seems that just about everybody is smiling and upbeat. And why shouldn't they be? I remember the first nationals I ever went to (okay I'm really dating myself here) was at Muskogee OK in 1986. I remember it was much the same: Everyone was happy to be there. Or maybe they were just happy to be away from work. I remember Smitty the Jumper and downwind PC accuracy (or was that just a demo?) and lots of hot wind holds and that big beer tent named after someone I can't remember. And a couple of years later, the last nationals to be held at Muskogee, I remember a hotshot skydiver landing a microscopic square parachute made out of noisy material called "zero P" going about 80 mph between the airport buildings and almost taking me out. His name was Tommy Piras...
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Jan Meyer, Chief Engineer and Webmaster |