My iPhone 6 was telling me it had maybe 30% battery, then
suddenly it would have 7%, or none. Obviously this would be a problem, and I
googled it as one does, and it turns out that it had something to do with the
OS communicating with the battery, and the solution is to reset all your settings.
What the hey, said I, and I did it. This had two results. First, apparently it
fixed the battery issue, and second, all my settings went away. This is both a
good and a bad thing. It’s good because it allows you to see what you had and
decide if you still want it, and if you want it the way it was. It’s bad
because there are so many bloody settings that it takes forever to sort them
out. I’ve been at this a week now, and I just discovered how to not have all my
messages notify me twice, which was driving me crazy at Columbia. I thought it
was spooks. Haints. Gremlins. I mean, who wants to be beeped twice? Or more
than twice, which is an option? Jeesh.
Meanwhile, after a whole bunch of days making piddling
changes to the Penn waitlists, I realized that most of these folks were not
going to be in Philadelphia that weekend, and sent out a message warning people
to go darken someone else’s door. Telling people that I have no idea if they’ll
get off the waitlist always has the immediate effect of people asking me if
they’ll get off the waitlist. Sigh. I’ve been pretty religiously working it by
signup date, which doesn’t stop people who literally signed up yesterday from
whining to me that they really need the slot because of X, Y or Z. I mean, I’m
trying to be fair. First, a month after registration opened, I did a sweep, and
pretty much everybody got slots. Then I waited till we had room confirmations
and I started filling in as much as I could after that. I mean, who signs up
for a college tournament thinking they’ll get 10 debate slots in each division?
Seriously, people. And you signed up two weeks ago, and you have to make plane
reservations, and what am I going to do about it? The VCA knows well that all I
can do is happily thank you for trying. Since tabroom lists tournaments on the
front page the day they go live, people don’t really have a great excuse for
signing up late. Even people who say they’re new to this ought to get out of
the house once in a while and talk to their colleagues to get a sense of how
things work. My responsibility is to set up the best tournament possible. I
want diversity in the field and in the judge pools. I don’t want people I know,
people I like, people I hate, etc., etc., etc., to play into the equation.
There is really no Rawlsean argument that says that, behind the veil of
waitlist ignorance, I play favorites. My only bending is to occasionally cut
people who are flying in a break, because of the extra problem of airline tix.
But, I assure you, it isn’t much of a break, and Rawls (and you) would not
disapprove.
More closely, Baby Bump is next week. The numbers are
holding up. I still have a tiny waitlist of big school entries, and I want to
let them in too, but I don’t want them paying to debate themselves. So I’ll
sort that out at the end. Of course, it’s a one-dayer, so it’s no big deal to
finalize things late in the game.
I still haven’t seen anything from Lakeland, although Stefan
made it clear that he understood that I was blackmailing him, that is, if he
wanted me to tab, he had to put up entries at Bump. After that, it’s CFL
Grands, and my season crashes to a halt. I’ll have to start blogging about
something else. Which reminds me: the new PF topics should be online. I gotta go
check ‘em out.
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