Neon Nats

New Hood

This year CNN was really on me. The Prez and DCO were really unavailable at all to help or attend. I luckily had a friend willing to help out and managed to pull things together.

I had a brilliant idea this year, that I would introduce secret judges. With cell phones being such a big thing, people are always on them. Facebook, texting, twitter, email. I got a couple of helpers and got them to download an app that would help me achieve my goal.

I have got quite a few good comments on my way of doing things. It was a little tricky at the end when I was waiting for one judge to finish up so I could tally up the scores. I definitely have some ideas on what can be done better next year. I mean, we have this technology, why not use it?

Cruise down to SPARTA, ON

All in all, I had a good weekend. I heard a lot of positive feedback from people (even some first timers), so that really helps me feel like I did a good job.

We did our quarter mile foot race again this year down the track, and a newbie took the title. We finally had another chapter win the participation award, and we had a pretty epic marshmallow battle. I'll share a few pics.

Battle aftermath

Cyreks & Technology

Cyreks: 3
Technology: 1 + 1?

Well I'm not sure how accurate that is... But I'm very happy with some of my recent battles with technology ending in success such as:
- ultimate battle with text messaging app on my phone. Was not receiving picture messages, now I am.
- cat fight with blogger in the time zone and comment department. (does that count as two?) Now you can comment on my blog with no blog affiliation and my posts will display they were posted at the correct time.

The things I still haven't managed to figure out:
- how in the HELL do you get your YouTube videos available to watch on a mobile device?
- even after setting the settings to not send notifications, why must an app put a notification in my status bar and not allow me to even swipe it away??

Frustration.

Uggghhhh I've had enough, I think I'm going to bed.