Overwhelmed and Undermanned!
settummanque, or blackeagle (blkeagle@DYNASTY.NET)
Tue, 30 Dec 1997 18:51:44 -0600
Hi Scouters*!!
The annual "summary posting" for Scouts-L is going to be a little late this
year; I've started on it, but I don't think I'll get finished with it before
the end of the year (the day after tommorrow!)
Over the past couple of years (with a notable exception last year due to my
military deployment), I try to summarize the number and types of topics that
we've talked about here, to bring some closure to the year and to publicly
thank each and everyone one of you for your contributions and for your
"participation" in Scouts-L, "the electronic roundtable meeting which NEVER
ends!"
My two boys are living here with us, and the transition from being at "mom's
place" to "dad and Jessica's place" has been really rough. Both suffer from
several maladies, the biggest of which is a loss of manners and proper
behavior, which is why they came to stay with "Our Dad and Jessica", as my
youngest would say. Add to a rough workload, friends and relatives coming
to visit, and my obligations to community, Jessi's church, and to Scouters'
Journal, and you can see why I'm so far behind on literally *everything*!
But I'm catching up, and catching up fast!
This year, in an effort to help myself as well as those many webmasters out
there that may be looking for content from Scouts-L, I've decided to do a
month-by-month summary of "significant topics" covered on Scouts-L.
By just saying "significant topics", I'm boxing myself in a corner, because
my definition of a "significant topic" may or may not be significant to you.
My defination of a "significant topic" is those topics which we discussed
with more than four responses and with, natually, the more responses the
higher up on the "list" it goes.
The list will be available sometime on New Years' Day and I will send a copy
to our Listowner so that it can be placed on our server when he comes back
from holiday leave/vacation. I hope by then also to get all of my personal
email caught up completely as well as to get all 43MBs of Scouts-L email
(yeah, and I don't have the COMPLETE YEAR on Jessica's machine!!) off her
machine and onto a ZIP{tm} diskette for storage.
Those webmasters and others wanting to use the index will appreciate this
fact and will be able to get via email from the Listserver the monthly set
of postings by sending the command
GET SCOUTS-L LOGyymm SCOUTS-L (where yymm means 97 and the two-digit (01 to
12) month in which the topic resides within. Sorry, you can't get the
specific set of postings from the Listserver).
When you are standing or sitting around this New Years' Eve, please make two
additional resolutions for yourself for 1998:
*To continue to be of service to everyone you can, and to encourage your
fellow Scouters and your youth members to do the same during 1998
*And to tell 12 other Scouters about the wonderful resources here on
Scouts-L (and elsewhere along the Internet, to include those super Websites
and "specific-topic" discussion lists!) each month during 1998.
Both are important in the various youth agencies and programs that we
represent: We need to express to our youth members as well as our fellow
adult workers and supporters that "service doesn't just happen when we're
wearing the uniform" or "when we are a part of the organization" or group.
Service happens when someone helps someone else with no regard to "what
we're going to get outta doing it".
And we need to further move Scouters and Scouts out there (and our
professional counterparts and those adults that are "fearful" of the
Internet!!) toward utilizing the Internet and *all* of the resources that it
can bring....we all know that lots of folks resist anything "new" and change
is hard for others; we also know that so much information and resource
material can be obtained from Scouts-L and other resources. If each person
tells 12 others each month about this resource, we will see a list of more
than 3000 possible "respondents".... that's a GREAT goal!!
Happy New Year from all of us around here and we do hope that 1998 brings
for you and your families and programs some SUPER times and some SUPER
experiences....and don't forget to please share those times (and those
less-than-super times!!) with all of us. We WANT to know both the GOOD and
BAD of being a part of your unit or organization.
More importantly, we want to be there as your "support system", as others
have been for us!!
Settummanque!
(* I use the generic title "Scouters" to all members of this list instead of
the stale "members" or "participants". This does not imply that I'm
speaking *only* to the leaders and members of Boy or Girl Scouting/Guiding
programs that read/post to our list; but rather to everyone. If your
organization doesn't use the title "Scouter", please take that as meaning
"members and leaders of your organization or group". While the vast
majority of members here are affialiated in some way or another with a
"scouting group" or organization, we do have quite a many that are not...I
for one enjoy hearing from you, reading ("hearing") your questions, comments
and criticisms, and just knowing that you're there applying some of what
"those others" talk about within your own organization or group. A Royal
Rangers outpost here in Henderson is using lots of Cub Scouting's Pinewood
Derby ideas in planning their own "Pinewood Derby", including trying to get
the materials from the local BSA Council!
So, easily can program ideas flow from one organization to another and still
meet the objective: to have fun, to learn something new, to do things with
others, and to involve family and friends. That's what this list has always
been about...and which I hope and pray that it will continue to be about as
we enter year EIGHT! My personal apologies if the "title" offends you!)
(c) 1997 Mike Walton ("no such thing as strong coffee,...") (502) 827-9201
(settummanque, the blackeagle) http://dynasty.net/users/blkeagle
241 Fairview Dr., Henderson, KY 42420-4339 blkeagle@dynasty.net
kyblkeagle@aol.com or waltonm@hq.21taacom.army.mil
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