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spent the day half in bed, resting, trying to recover... decided not to go out and do anything useful as tomorrow in theory will be a busy day, except I had to meet someone at the train station to collect maps at 7pm.
Very nice, all the maps arrived, just one small problem... the black was big and blurry and the contours hard to discern on Blue Mtn. You can, if you look hard, understand almost everything, but it would be impossible to do so on the run. My body was already not very happy at being that far away from bed... we debated what to do for half an hour... then took a trip to Fedex in White Plains... where the staff were somewhat apathetic and both colour printers were broken. On the plus side, they did do a little guillotining for us.
So back to the apartment, played with the Ocad files, changed the colour and black dot settings... made new course maps, drove to Scarsdale to another Fedex...
This one had functioning printers, but the DIY printer only managed to open two course maps (after thinking long and hard) and then decided that was enough.
The guy Daniel behind the counter was very busy but helped us out as much as he could (a lot)... so now we have usable Blue and Red course maps. At 11pm. Each file took forever and quite a bit of goodwill. In theory they are being bagged tomorrow.
If I am very good, I may try to get some better maps printed for the spectator courses, but don't count on it. [I feel very badly about this. But at 2.06 for a second printing of 11*17 when the entry costs 8$...]
I don't usually stress, but this evening...
spent the day half in bed, resting, trying to recover... decided not to go out and do anything useful as tomorrow in theory will be a busy day, except I had to meet someone at the train station to collect maps at 7pm.
Very nice, all the maps arrived, just one small problem... the black was big and blurry and the contours hard to discern on Blue Mtn. You can, if you look hard, understand almost everything, but it would be impossible to do so on the run. My body was already not very happy at being that far away from bed... we debated what to do for half an hour... then took a trip to Fedex in White Plains... where the staff were somewhat apathetic and both colour printers were broken. On the plus side, they did do a little guillotining for us.
So back to the apartment, played with the Ocad files, changed the colour and black dot settings... made new course maps, drove to Scarsdale to another Fedex...
This one had functioning printers, but the DIY printer only managed to open two course maps (after thinking long and hard) and then decided that was enough.
The guy Daniel behind the counter was very busy but helped us out as much as he could (a lot)... so now we have usable Blue and Red course maps. At 11pm. Each file took forever and quite a bit of goodwill. In theory they are being bagged tomorrow.
If I am very good, I may try to get some better maps printed for the spectator courses, but don't count on it. [I feel very badly about this. But at 2.06 for a second printing of 11*17 when the entry costs 8$...]
I don't usually stress, but this evening...