Drovers Campfire Almost Ready in Days of My Destiny

I have NO idea how on earth this committee has managed to actually get this event up and running year after year, for 8 years... there is SO much disorganization!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!

This is the fun committee to be involved in :) Lots to do but lots of FUN things. Not bitchiness and people quitting on ya, haha.

Anyway so I had to bring the till home because - even though this very till has been used year after year - nobody knows how to operate it lol. So I brought it home, played around with it, re-designed the actual layout of the buttons (colour coding items etc - eg all Tour buttons are orange, all Souvenir buttons are yellow, etc). I also wrote up a basic manual for it, because the manual I found online is useless (about 200 pages long and written for actual programmers...)

I figure: I'm a genius!

I did this, ALL BY MYSELF. I have my father's brain. I can usually work these things out, without direction. It was a fun challenge and I got it done. Everyone is impressed with what I have come up with, and that's some pretty great feedback right there :)

I will be MC-ing for 3 days, announcing when tours are on, or if somebody's left their car lights on, etc etc. The event goes for 5 days, and I'll also be helping out at the Info Centre in three separate 3-hour shifts. I'm looking forward to it :) I was there this morning to drop off the till and show people how it works, and it was chaotic there but fun! I think I'm surrounded by oldies who like to show what they know but also are humble enough to learn something new. That's nice. (At the other committee, I think everyone just wants to show what they know and be boss.)

So there will be about 10 different types of tours available over the course of the event, and behind-the-scenes, these have also been colour-coded (by Anita, who is just as efficient as I am, if not more!). So we were sorting out all those kinds of things this morning - putting all the red tickets in the red folder, etc etc etc. Anita also updated information on the lanyards that volunteers will be wearing (eg me), and so she emailed that to me and this morning I spend some time cutting the new info and putting it into each lanyard. Stuff like that.

I was also given the iPad a while ago. The idea for the iPad is to enter people's information as they arrive. I am thinking this will be a great waste of time, because typing into the iPad takes a while and besides we've already got everyone's information on paper anyway.... but anyway, we will try it and review for next year. I had to come up with a table of information and enter it into excel, which was on the iPad already. I was supposed to return that today but I forgot. It's okay, I can take it down there later, along with the signs I have to make up anyway ( "Sorry No Cash Out" type signs - things we only thought about this morning once setting up).

All the fun things :)

Even L has been somehow roped into it all, LMAO, because of his electrical knowledge. Even HE is baffled at how things run. Basically they have too many generators to power all the vans, which is a huge waste of power, lol. Anyway... I just think it's hilarious that even though I'M the one officially in the committee, he is now involved too, hahahaha. He even came with me to the last meeting, LMAO - though that was more a logistics thing (we'd been out and we went there on our way home. Still, he paid attention and asked questions at the meeting like a good boy hahaha.)

We are so involved this year. It's great. As for some of our friends, they are baffled and wandering who the hell ARE these people all of a sudden. I think some of them might have a slight competitive edge about them. One friend said to me that I'm making her look bad (what the hell...) but oh well, we are just LIVING LIFE. That's right, that's what it's called, people!!! But as for the actual oldies who need the help - they are really appreciative. So that's a bonus.