[Robotgroup] Banquet Thoughts... :)

[Paul Atkinson]

Dolly & I had a great time at the banquet. The food was great. I missed the
dessert invite or we would have brought something. The awards were cool, and
even though I knew a little bit about the concept there were still
surprises. I guess Vern and some others really can keep a secret!

Thanks to all those who worked hard this year and also to those who put
together the banquet!!

Paul

On Dec 10, 2007 5:36 PM, Don Colbath <dcolbath at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Ditto from  Don!!!!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Lundquist" <eric.g.lundquist at gmail.com>
> To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 1:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Banquet Thoughts... :)
>
>
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Vern Graner CNE/CNA/SSE    | "If the network is down, then you're
> > Senior Systems Engineer    | obviously incompetent so why are we
> > Texas Information Services | paying you? Of course, if the network
> > http://www.txis.com        | is up, then we obviously don't need
> > Austin Office 512 328-8947 | you, so why are we paying you?" (c)VLG
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