[Robotgroup] Banquet Thoughts... :)

[Eric Lundquist]

Hats off you all!  The awards look great!  It is something I will treasure
for years to come.  The banquet also went well.  Great food.  I fell off my
diet big time last night but it was well worth it!  The desserts that people
brought were especially wonderful!
- Eric



On 12/10/07, Vern Graner <vern at txis.com> wrote:
>
> I wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU for some amazing
> behind-the-scenes work done by the folks that brought my primitive
> pencil sketches to life as the "Davinci Awards":
>
> ** Ed Xavier Gonzalez
> - For his beautiful and detailed work with the laser cutting and
> etching, his experience and input on design details, and his creative
> ability helping us come up with the name (but for his input, they might
> have been known as the "blinkies" or some such!)  :)
>
> ** Paul Atkinson
> -For his work in designing the PC boards, etching them, drilling them,
> locating software and programming the PIC chips, populating, soldering
> and individually testing every circuit board, coming up with with the
> "PC board in a AA battery area of a 4xAA holder". :)
>
> ** Rick Abbot
> -For locating, bending, bead-blasting and drilling the metal, finishing
> the black acrylic "shim" in front of the acrylic, drilling and tapping
> the acrylic parts and performing the final assembly of all the parts
> (even though we didn't finally get him all the bits till the day of the
> banquet!) :)
>
> ** Nic Graner
> -For sitting at the kitchen table helping Rick pull all the "paper" from
> the itty-bitty etchings of text and graphics on each acrylic piece. :)
>
> I'm glad we were able to keep the project under wraps so the awards
> could be a surprise. A LOT of thought and effort went into their
> creation and I hope they will find a place of honor in their respective
> new homes.
>
> In my minds eye I was hoping to design something so cool that someday,
> in the future, NO ONE one would EVER find a Davinci Award stuffed in a
> box with some dusty old bowling trophies at a garage sale.. ;)
>
> Vern
>
> --
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> Senior Systems Engineer    | obviously incompetent so why are we
> Texas Information Services | paying you? Of course, if the network
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