Archive for October 7, 2007

2007 Ed Harris Memorial Trade-o-Ree/Auction Report

Posted in Oregon Lodges, Wauna La-Mon'Tay 442 by skyloo442 on October 7th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

Friday and Saturday I had the honor of chairing the 2007 Ed Harris TOR/Auction in Portland, Oregon.  This event was sponsored by The Cascade Pacific Council, Wauna La-Mon’Tay Lodge 442 and the NWTA chapter of ISCA.  Everyone their had a great time and plenty of great trades were made and some nice items were bought on auction.

We had an average attendance which will hope to improve in the future (conflicts with neighboring lodge events and the Chicago TOR drew away people).  Some improvements will be made and the next one will be even better.  Next year will be a trade-o-ree only. 

I picked up some very nice items and plugged up some holes in my Pacific Northwest OA collection along with some minor holes in other collections I have.

Some difficult Skyloo and Wauna La-Mon’Tay issues changed hands or went for nice prices on the auction block.  Some Cole Snass items went as well.  I would have like to have seen some other things on theauction block but that means I have to work harder on the donations in the future.

Kudos for everyone involved in the organization and running of the event.  Comments are welcome to either the blog or to me personally.



"The first nonabsolute number is the number of people for whom the table is reserved. This will vary during the course of the first three telephone calls to the restaurant, and then bear no apparent relation to the number of people who actually turn up, or to the number of people who subsequently join them after the show/match/party/gig, or to the number of people who leave when they see who else has turned up.
The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a recipriversexcluson, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive. Recipriversexclusons now play a vital part in many branches of math, including statistics and accountancy and also form the basic equations used to engineer the Somebody Else's Problem field.
The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the bill, the cost of each item, the number of people at the table and what they are each prepared to pay for. (The number of people who have actually brought any money is only a subphenomenon of this field.)"
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