Thank you, Randy and Lou, for alerting me to this conversation.
We have a lot of people donating prizes for the Birthday Bash out of the goodness of their hearts. Most of them are just members here at IAP, willing to share with a fellow member. Just like all of us! If a prize doesn't make it out to a winner, there could be any number of reasons why, not the least of which is the logistical nightmare of keeping track of all the winners and notifying the prize donors. We've found the weak link in this process to be the questionable reliability of E-Mail, but it surely is not the only possible reason for a mis-communication. Andrew did an amazing job of connecting all the dots in the huge puzzle of connecting prize winners with prize donors!
A month ago we thought we pretty much had all the prizes where they ought to be. There were a couple of stragglers, but for the most part that was a matter of communication. But we can't read minds, so we don't know you didn't get your prize if you don't tell us. Thanks Jared and Dozermite, for letting us know. We can easily work on getting your prize to you. If anybody else hasn't gotten their prize yet, you may want to let us know as well. Drop me or Randy or Andrew or Jeff an E-Mail, anybody who was involved in running the Bash can help with this, yes even Al!
And I apologize for things getting messed up. We're all just volunteers trying to do our best. But you all are our friends, and we want to make sure you're taken care of!
Scott.
