BAZINGA

The rain would certainly suck and I don't think I'd go out in the rain. It did make for some cool photos though. Bart

Always enjoy reading your troop log as much as looking at the photos! Bart

Looks like that was a lot of fun!! Bart

Sadly not super smooth for me. Most pages are long to load if they load at all. I usually need to make repeat visits throughout the day to find a window of time where I can actually access for forum. Bart

That's very cool! Bart

Congratulations and welcome! Bart

Troop 24: Annual meet and greet in Saskatoon 16Nov24 We do a little meet and greet every November and try to combine it with an armor party or general bring whatever you want to work on party. Not a lot of space to move around so not a lot of photos this time. I guess the bigger news out of this one is I volunteered to be the local GEC ( @GilesWoodward is taking a break from the role and I tried everything to change his mind to no avail) so we can have someone in this big province I live in doing this job. In the last couple of months no one was willing to put up their hand to lead it. There are big shoes to fill for sure as Giles did an incredible job. I'll take on a lion's share of that role but since we are so spread out I'm going to be getting some boots-on-the-ground help from our local GML too and we'll also rely on sister clubs for a few tasks as well. Most, if not all, our events are multi-club so we have a tight group to help pull off these appearances. The other groups are well up to the task for support as needed. Should be fun, interesting, exciting and a bit anxious at the same time. I've been in coordination roles before, but never on a province wide scale with everyone so spread out to complicate it. It's good to know I have the support of many going into this. Hey, you look very familiar... End of the day. This was probably the shortest amount of time I've been in my TK. We had so many members coming and going that we only had to take on about 90 minutes each. That was fine this time as there isn't much room to walk around and a lot of breakables in every direction so standing in one spot gets tiring quite quickly. I'm not liking the direction this story is going... We have a year end Christmas troop in about a month and I'm hoping to get to that because it was so much fun last year. Always a weather concern at this time of year for travel. As it was, I just got to the venue for this troop in time when some freezing rain started to really ice up the roads. Thankfully it was short lived, but a reminder that we're in our anything can happen weather mode now for the next 6 months.

Congratulations! Bart

Does anyone sell the black rubber gloves with silicone guards for ANH stunt that would be a decent match for AP Props version? AP no longer sells the silicone guards. I am going to need some new gloves for 2025 and prefer sticking with the rubber and silicone version not an ABS version if possible. A North American source would be ideal. Any ideas or do I need to switch to the ABS version? Thanks. Bart

Hmm, not great to hear that. Bart

I'll take some time to check out alternate products before doing anything further with this one. Bart

I did not attempt the mod. I don't think it would fix anything in my case. The last time it needed to have chips replaced so I am sure that is the same problem again. Bart

I enjoy going for walks too to see if I can attract some attention back to the booth or whatever we happen to be there for. I've been accused of going awol a few times from where I was supposed to be. Bart

Has anyone else experienced repeating failures of their icomm? I had to send mine away before I could even use it for repair and now it appears to have failed again doing the exact same thing. Only ticks. Two batteries have been tried and neither fixes it. I tested the batteries and they are both good. By the time I pay for shipping back and forth for another repair and another long delay I've almost paid for a whole new unit. And, I am not keen on another repair to have it fail a third time or buy a new one and have the same problems. Is there any other better option in North America that can ship to Canada in a timely fashion? I just want the static burst, I don't need fancy extras. Thanks. Bart

Congratulations on number one! Bart