[Snowball] Reconsidering Turnaround Times

Sat Aug 11 16:04:06 EDT 2012

I agree with Richard and Bill.  I support notifyingthe group when a snowball arrives.  And thenwhenever the person is ready to send it along, henotifies the group of the date sent and to whom.
How much time each person takes to enjoy thesnowball and replenish it will vary from several days to several weeks ... and that's just fine with me.Best,-Tom 

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> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:40:52 -0400
> From: "Donley" <donley.dn at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Snowball] Snowball #2
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> Snowball Groups (Both #1 and #2),
> 
> Jeramy's email below has prompted me to respond with something that I have 
> been thinking about ever since the new (Post Lloyd) Snowball groups formed. 
> There seems to be a tremendous urgency to get the Snowball in and out of 
> everyone's hands quickly. Reading between the lines of Jeramy's email, I 
> think he feels a lot of pressure to move the box along, probably reducing 
> his pleasure at having the box. I think this urgency will detract from the 
> enjoyment of others who receive the box if one is expected to turn it around 
> in a day or two. There should be a leisurely perusal of the contents, 
> contemplating what could be done with the part or reminiscing about what one 
> did with that part in the past. If everyone shipped the box after only one 
> day in possession of it, and the average shipping time was 3 days, that 
> means a box could show up every 28 days assuming 7 members in a group. I 
> don't know about the rest of you but a monthly junk box may be too much.
> 
> Please don't get me wrong. I want to participate as much as the next person, 
> but I think it would be much more enjoyable if the pressure to move it along 
> could be reduced. I don't think anyone in the group is forcing this 
> pressure. It just seems that every recipient so far has created the pressure 
> on themselves, not wanting the group to think they are slow. Lets relax a 
> little and enjoy this process. I think that was Lloyds original idea.
> 
> 73
> Richard
> KC9UB
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> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeramy Ross" <jeramy at w5xtl.org>
> To: "Snowball list" <snowball at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:23 PM
> Subject: [Snowball] Snowball #2
> 
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have really dropped the ball on my end with snowball #2.  The
> > doctors adjusted a medication of mine and it's really thrown me for a
> > loop, and I apologize for all of those down stream of me waiting on
> > ol' #2 to be fired off and get back out there in circulation.
> >
> > The good news is that I have it all packed up, stuffed to the gills
> > and it WILL be mailed off on Saturday, the 11th.
> >
> > Again, I'm really am sorry, and hope that this hasn't soured anyone on
> > the snowball or diminished the excitement the snowball has for anyone.
> >
> > 73,
> > Jeramy W5XTL
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:12:21 -0400
> From: Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Snowball] Relax - was: Snowball #2
> To: Donley <donley.dn at comcast.net>
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> On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 14:40 -0400, Donley wrote:
> > Snowball Groups (Both #1 and #2),
> > 
> > Jeramy's email below has prompted me to respond with something that I have 
> > been thinking about ever since the new (Post Lloyd) Snowball groups formed. 
> > There seems to be a tremendous urgency to get the Snowball in and out of 
> > everyone's hands quickly. Reading between the lines of Jeramy's email, I 
> > think he feels a lot of pressure to move the box along, probably reducing 
> > his pleasure at having the box. I think this urgency will detract from the 
> > enjoyment of others who receive the box if one is expected to turn it around 
> > in a day or two. There should be a leisurely perusal of the contents, 
> > contemplating what could be done with the part or reminiscing about what one 
> > did with that part in the past. If everyone shipped the box after only one 
> > day in possession of it, and the average shipping time was 3 days, that 
> > means a box could show up every 28 days assuming 7 members in a group. I 
> > don't know about the rest of you but a monthly junk box may be too much.
> > 
> > Please don't get me wrong. I want to participate as much as the next person, 
> > but I think it would be much more enjoyable if the pressure to move it along 
> > could be reduced. I don't think anyone in the group is forcing this 
> > pressure. It just seems that every recipient so far has created the pressure 
> > on themselves, not wanting the group to think they are slow. Lets relax a 
> > little and enjoy this process. I think that was Lloyds original idea.
> > 
> > 73
> > Richard
> > KC9UB
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been thinking along the same lines as Richard. Maybe one source
> of the urgent feelings about the boxes is what happened to the last one.
> That was a disaster and nothing to really be done about it. As long as
> everybody posts when they get the snowball and posts again when they
> send it along (and to whom) I think everybody will be happy.
> 
> As for what has happened to Jeramy..well "s*** happens". Most of us are
> olde enough and should be mature enough to *KNOW* that life is what
> happens while we are busy making other plans <grin>.
> 
> Today I got out one of my battery chargers to put the initial charge
> into some brand new AA NiMH cells. My charger won't accommodate all of
> them. I started to look for the bigger one..then remembered it went into
> the snowball that got pitched into the landfill. Rather than feel ugly
> toward the guy who got so badly lost, I took a minute to pray for him
> and especially for the people who have to care for him in his present
> condition. There were a couple of stops after it left..maybe one of
> those guys is using that nice battery charger.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Bill  KU8H
> 
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