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Friday, June 19, 2009

Unexpected Delays

This is Steven Petrick Posting:

We are into crunch time. Somehow it happens every year. We keep swearing to ourselves to be better organized when it comes time to go to Origins, and we always wind up with too much to do and not enough time to do it all.

In this case at least part of the problem was an unanticipated vehicle breakdown (as if they are ever anticipated). The booth and tournament boxes, along with other things needed for Origins, are not in the office building, but in the warehouse (out of the way). So, someone had to go get them, and they needed to be in a larger vehicle than a normal car. So I took the old van over.

After I got it loaded, the battery completely died. We tried jumping it with two different cars, and the battery would not charge at all. So we had to get a new battery, and since that was going to be the case, I took a tool box with me to get the old battery out. The tool box had lots of Sockets, but no socket wrench. (Why does it have all those sockets and no socket wrench?) This resulted in another round trip to the office to get a socket wrench, as there was one screw holding the battery in place that could NOT be removed with anything but a socket wrench.

So much of Yesterday afternoon was taken up with resolving the battery problem, rather than preparing the chalk loads for the trip. An so, once again, we are behind schedule and will be working late and long hours to get everything done before we can hit the road to Origins.