Ebola, etc…

I was discussing the ebola information I posted yesterday with Jeremy.  Another good point was brought up that makes it seem that there indeed could be more danger lurking under the hood than we have been told.  One of the people infected is a doctor that specializes in ebola.  Now think about that for a second.  If anyone would know about the proper precaution needed to not contract ebola it would be somebody like this.  Yet even he has now contracted the deadly virus. In my logical thought process this adds more weight to the theory that this latest iteration of the disease has jumped outside the boundaries we formerly thought constrained it.

Lets change subjects to something less population extinction focused.  Last night after work I had a brief meeting with a couple of the running club board members that are on the race committee.  The committee is tasked with taking a look at our races and identifying problem areas and things that can be done to make them better.  The problem is with only one board meeting a month there are things just do not get handled or thought through like they need to be.  Establishing side committees that meet independently of the board meetings is one way to try to fill in some of that gap.

The meeting was to discuss the club establishing a race series where participation/performance across multiple races is tabulated and scored so runners can see how they did over that time period.  The number of races, type of recognition/awards and how to handle the scoring are all things that will need to be established.  My timing software does have built in support to produce race series results using a number of preset templates.  If we use one of those it will make implementing the idea pretty easy from my standpoint.

Thanks to a big assist from Charlie’s programming wizardry we have finally completed the now 15 month long (originally told 3-4 weeks) migration to a new document imaging platform at work.  The vendor that sold us the product has more or less divorced themselves from supporting us in any tangible way, a testament to their utter incompetence.  Luckily, I am resourceful.