As some of you will be aware I have been away for the last four days at the Waikato Swim Champs.. this is a regional competition involving about 260 swimmers... swimming in seven sessions over four days.. It was my first time as Meet Director.. this is the person who runs the show and makes all the decisions regarding the meet process, structure and swim rules.. It's a high preasure job but boy it makes the time fly by... dealing with the ego's of some 50 or so officials and in fact just arranging their schedules and getting them poolside was very trying... the equipment went well.. we run all electronic timing with three laptops and an electronic rear projection scoreboard.. two of the laptops are brand new as is the scoreboard... and a configuration problem with the laptop controling the scoreboard caused alot of grief in session three.. being Meet Director means holding alot of meetings with coaches, team managers and officials... and trying to think of everything...but telling people what to do comes naturaly for me... uppie looks over his shoulder to see if the wife is peeking.. the meet is held in Hamilton which means staying over in a motel.. the plus side of this is that Hamilton has a casino... and you all know my love of gambling... luckily I won a thousand dollars on a pokey machine with this cash in my pocket I then went and played Texas Holdem.. cards is something I really enjoy... and won another one hundred and thirty dollars... I would have played all night but I had to get up for swimming early next morning .. the winnings meant it was an all expenses paid weekend with a little left over for frivilous expenditure... and I did not have to tap into my savings account... I only have one girl who swims competitively now and she won a silver and two bronze medals.. to give you an idea of the level she swims at.. the girl who got gold in her agegroup.. is a new Zealand squad member and only fractions of seconds away from qualifying for the Commenwealth games.. hmmm what else.. well it's raining here and I am on holiday for the next three or four days so maybe I'll go back to bed and snooze..
greetings to all Uppie
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