Thanks Nick for the corrections! By the way, I'm looking for a stand-in live blogger while I'm judging tomorrow afternoon, if you're interested. This time around I'm keeping the reporting short and sweet, just the signature drinks.
On other news: At the end of the session, Peter showed an excerpt of a documentary DVD of last year's SERBC competition. Lots of interviews interspersed with competition footage. I plan to buy one and write a short review. Peter is also following up on a postable excerpt. It's rare to see such a professional production as last year and it's great to see it available in an edited form. Last year they had two cameramen and a great color; unfortunately, this year they have fixed position webcams with grainy black and white images.
Tonight Abe arrived from New York and we had dinner with Bob Roseman and his wife Libby, Kevin Krautwald and his wife Diana, and Bob Barraza. Wonderful Greek food at Xios, located in the same shopping center as Pheasant Creek Coffee. The topics at dinner included coffee, politics, food, and brief chats on uber-geeky topics like relating the Richter scale, relatively humidity, and redneck evaluations of how hot it is outside (OK, you had to be there).
miKe mcKoffee wrote:Thanks Dan! I'm hoping to qualify for judging at the Northwest RBC next month, don't know if my form was submitted in time, haven't heard back yet.
When in doubt, call Michelle Campbell. She's easy to get on the phone, but slow to respond to e-mails. The final list of judges isn't actually decided until after the workshop, so there's rarely a "too late" problem. That said, there were more judge volunteers this year than competitors at the SERBC and several judges had only one flight.