Apr 30th, 2008
Logistical things to know for Pat's Run…
WHAT TIME SHOULD A RUNNER GET THERE?…If registering Saturday morning or picking up your packet on race day, be there by 5 a.m. All other participants are asked to be there by 6:15 a.m. for the 7 a.m. "Run" start. Please plan to arrive early.
REFRESHMENT INFORMATION…Our expo will be open from 6 a.m.-11 a.m. on the east side of the stadium. Sponsors will be offering products and refreshments will be available for purchase.
WHERE SHOULD I PARK?…First off, carpool if you can. Parking for participants is available at the north end of Sun Devil Stadium on the north side of Rio Salado Parkway and in the parking structure between Wells Fargo Arena and the Sun Angel Track, but if you want to get the parking structure you are advised to get there by 6 a.m. Did we mention to please plan to arrive early? Please do note that exiting from the garage will be blocked until after 9:30 a.m.
WILL THERE BE A NATIONAL ANTHEM?…The national anthem is scheduled to be played at 6:50 a.m.
TRAFFIC: The 202 westbound ramp and eastbound off ramp at Rural will be closed at 6:45 a.m. and southbound Rural curb lane (Curry to Sixth Street) will close at 6:50 a.m. Rio Salado East from Mill Avenue will close at 7 a.m. Roads should reopen shortly after 9:30 am.
EASIEST WAY TO GET THERE, PLEASE…: If traveling on Highway 202 to Sun Devil Stadium, exit Highway 202 at McClintock. Head South to Rio Salado Parkway West. Runners starting at 7:00 am should park in Lot 59 (north of the stadium). Non-timed walkers starting at 7:30 am should park on the eastside of Rural (northeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Rio Salado Parkway).
PACKET PICK-UP: Packet pick-up will be available April 16-18 at the Sun Devil Stadium North End/Gate (please note: this is a different location than in years past), 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.. Also available race morning, Packard Drive at the Registration Desk, 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. Packets include your shirt, race bib and last minute instructions as well as information from sponsors. They may be picked up for participants by other people, we encourage this for teams and groups. Kids Run shirts and bibs can also be picked up through April 19 at the north end.
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14 Responses to “Logistical things to know for Pat's Run…”
blog fail. no good without descriptions.
The field always did mean the same thing, within any given real estate office. And the code is the same everywhere.
My favorite: world’s largest ‘handheld’ egg beater.as if…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ohakunecarrot1b.jpgI could go on, believe me small towns all over the world seem to have the need for a big something…
ugh…
in what way is that puppet big?
Yep. After 12 years as his apprentice, I was both ready for anything, and dreadfully spoiled for what I would later encounter in the “corporate” world.It took me 6 months to realize that in the corporate world, people outside your team are not your friends, and that we’re NOT all here to do our best to improve the company as a whole.Then I built my own team — one that did play by the “good guy” rules. And we used Roger’s psychological and economic warfare tactics to take on the opposition within the company, instead of the competition on the outside… but that’s another story for another day.Among other wisdom he imparted, one of the most important — and the hardest to master — was the koan, “programming does not make money.”
The users input what follow-up date they wanted the letters printed for. You use a <= criterion, regardless of whether the dates are past or present. So actually, it’s quite simple.Remember: one PC per office + no network = one user per db. Part of being simple is knowing what use cases you will not support.
I have a contender.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/George-W-Bush.jpeg/453px-George-W-Bush.jpeg
You’re still missing it. If I think follow up is last follow up date, I enter the date for how long ago I want to contact people. If I think it’s next follow up, I enter today’s date. And when “the user” is replaced, they generally train their replacement, or call support, or look at the manual (which explained both procedures), or get training (where I explained their options).You’re also not considering what “unusable data” would mean, here. The worst that could happen is that you send some letters early, or you send them late. If you want to be on the safe side, you send everyone a letter, telling them that you’re the new person on staff and you want to make sure they’re being taken care of. Heck, you probably do that anyway. Then you reset everybody’s follow-up date.If you’re having trouble whittling it down, it’s because you’re not looking at the domain-specific aspects of the problem, rather than the IT bits that potentially apply to any problem. That is, in fact, one of the major points of the piece: that simplicity is more often found by careful consideration of the real-world problem, than by using solution-domain panaceas (like program generators).
Ah, I see. I think the problem was that I thought that “follow up date” was obviously some information stored in the db, when in fact, you were clearly referring to an input field used as a parameter to the “RunFollowUps” process. Have I got it now?Actually, I’m pretty sure I still don’t get it.I want to follow-up once a month. Customer A was contacted 2 months ago. Customer B was contacted 2 days ago. How is it that I can enter either today’s date, or a date one month ago, and in both cases, I’ll only get a follow-up for Customer A?I’ll concede your point about taking things in context. I’m intentionally overthinking things here for the sake of argument.On the other hand, how many of your users are satisfied when the system does what they intend at least, oh, half the time?
Never before has a dropped fork at the dinner table become a deadly projectile.
looks like you use it