I've been slowly getting myself psyched up for this weekend's square dance festival, ACDC 2013, which DC Lambda Squares hosts every Presidents' Day weekend.
Last night, I assembled all of the audio systems in our basement, confirming we have an amp, speakers & appropriate cables for three halls and a spare set as an emergency backup.
I also printed out some in-house docs, such as the volunteer instructions for our registration/check-in desk, a sign-up sheet for the after party, a sign-up sheet for the guest caller spots and such, as well as final proofs for items which will be mass-copied. The DCLS Travelling Bin of Stationery has been prepped and is ready to go.
Today is payday. Money was transferred to various house accounts and some bills were paid. Yay for paydays!
This morning, I walked down to Staples for a tonne o' photocopying: copies of the current year's registration form for walk-ins, next year's registration form for early-bird registrations, the dance schedule, a quality control survey, a restaurant & dining guide and so on.
My bags are packed.![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kent4str and cuyahogarvr's bags are also packed and are in the living room. In a few minutes, I'll be loading the entire lot into the minivan in a last-in-first-out order since we'll be dropping the equipment off at the dance location first, then checking into our hotel later.
I wish we were able to stay at the same host hotel as everyone else but nearly all DC hotels refuse to have three adults in a room, quoting fire regulations. The Embassy Suites however doesn't have a problem, we presume because of the size & configuration of the room.
At the moment, I'm feeling a little out of touch with things. This is our first time using the Four Points Sheraton Hotel so I'm not sure how best at the moment to unload the equipment, which rooms we're using and where to set up the audio systems within those rooms. I'm also unclear where the registration desk is going to be located. This wouldn't be a problem except that 100 people are going to descend on the hotel in a few hours and for reasons I don't understand everyone --hotel staff, guests, club members and the rest of the host committee-- will be waiting for me to make the call. I don't know why, but that's typically how it turns out.
In all, we have about 100 registrations. It's a shamerfrench isn't able to join us this year as hoped because of recent knee surgery, but glad John Marshall was available to substitute. We'll have Anne Uebelacker, Dayle Hodge and Linda Kendall on staff as well this year. We're looking forward to having Rob next year, with Sandie Bryant, Lynette Bellini and Betsy Gotta.
Last night, I assembled all of the audio systems in our basement, confirming we have an amp, speakers & appropriate cables for three halls and a spare set as an emergency backup.
I also printed out some in-house docs, such as the volunteer instructions for our registration/check-in desk, a sign-up sheet for the after party, a sign-up sheet for the guest caller spots and such, as well as final proofs for items which will be mass-copied. The DCLS Travelling Bin of Stationery has been prepped and is ready to go.
Today is payday. Money was transferred to various house accounts and some bills were paid. Yay for paydays!
This morning, I walked down to Staples for a tonne o' photocopying: copies of the current year's registration form for walk-ins, next year's registration form for early-bird registrations, the dance schedule, a quality control survey, a restaurant & dining guide and so on.
My bags are packed.
kent4str and cuyahogarvr's bags are also packed and are in the living room. In a few minutes, I'll be loading the entire lot into the minivan in a last-in-first-out order since we'll be dropping the equipment off at the dance location first, then checking into our hotel later.I wish we were able to stay at the same host hotel as everyone else but nearly all DC hotels refuse to have three adults in a room, quoting fire regulations. The Embassy Suites however doesn't have a problem, we presume because of the size & configuration of the room.
At the moment, I'm feeling a little out of touch with things. This is our first time using the Four Points Sheraton Hotel so I'm not sure how best at the moment to unload the equipment, which rooms we're using and where to set up the audio systems within those rooms. I'm also unclear where the registration desk is going to be located. This wouldn't be a problem except that 100 people are going to descend on the hotel in a few hours and for reasons I don't understand everyone --hotel staff, guests, club members and the rest of the host committee-- will be waiting for me to make the call. I don't know why, but that's typically how it turns out.
In all, we have about 100 registrations. It's a shame
rfrench isn't able to join us this year as hoped because of recent knee surgery, but glad John Marshall was available to substitute. We'll have Anne Uebelacker, Dayle Hodge and Linda Kendall on staff as well this year. We're looking forward to having Rob next year, with Sandie Bryant, Lynette Bellini and Betsy Gotta.
