Cool 7 more and we are off and running.

I picked up some more samples for the pass. Charles Fairmorns Lancers Slices and Black Bayou Mist, Bullseye Flake and McClelland 2030 Balkan. It is getting close, real close for launch day.

This sounds like it will be a good time. I can honestly say this will be my first box pass and I am looking forward to it. Any tips from the experienced guys are welcome.

Yo Rock, Enjoy yourself, Ken.
Pacem en Puffing!

Thanks Ken, that may bey the best advise one could give!

Here is an update to the list of everyone who has signed up so far. I apologize if you have not received your confirmation email. I will start building up the boxes this week. I have almost everything but am waiting for one more shipment from Smoking Pipes. If "everything" goes alright I would like to ship the boxes out this Friday no later than Tuesday the 12th. I am going to start figuring out the routes tomorrow.

Tony Ferrill (confirmed)
JHuggett (confirmed)
Carlos (confirmed)
Pipetongue1 (confirmed)
Puff Daddy (confirmed)
Jeepernick (confirmed)
D.J.Perry (confirmed)
Ego Archive (confirmed)
Tin Man (confirmed)
Thomas James (aka TJ) (confirmed)
Just Pipes (confirmed)
Mikem (confirmed)
Eggman (confirmed)
Bigsmoker (confirmed) 27 Jan 08
cigargod (confirmed) 27 Jan 08
Mr. Houston (confirmed) 28 Jan 08
Lewtang (confirmed) 28 Jan 08
MidnightBlues (confirmed) 29 Jan 08
J_Rock (confirmed) 01 Feb 08

Ok Gentleman, unless I get more players between now and Sunday here will be the order of the two boxes which I am calling the East and West boxes just to keep things straight in my pea brain. Hopefully I figured this correctly so that you should see either the East or West box within nine passes from the last time you had a box. I tried to keep the boxes going by the shortest possible route except the East box will need to go from New York to California in the middle of it's pass. If postage is a problem please send me a private email and I will be more than willing to give you a little help with the postage. Without further ado here is the order in which you get to go bananas.

	West		East
1	TJ	1	Eggman
2	Puff Daddy	2	Jeepernick
3	Tin Man	3	Tom Clemons
4	Jhuggett	4	J_Rock
5	Lewtang	5	Bigsmoker
6	Carlos	6	Ego Archive
7	F.ferrill	7	Pipetongue1
8	Cigargod	8	Dock.J.Perry
9	Mr. Houston	9	MidnightBlues
10	Eggman	10	TJ
11	Jeepernick	11	Puff Daddy
12	Tom Clemons	12	Tin Man
13	J_Rock	13	Jhuggett
14	Bigsmoker	14	Lewtang
15	Ego Archive	15	Carlos
16	Pipetongue1	16	F.ferrill
17	Dock.J.Perry	17	Cigargod
18	MidnightBlues	18	Mr. Houston
19	mikem	19	mikem

Cool the box is almost a foot. I have never been the first in line before. Thanks for putting this on Mike.

Can't wait!

Just out of curiosity . . . . what happens if someone gets two boxes at the same time? Do they need to work doubletime or would they get a few extra days to sort it all out?


Not trying to stir up trouble . . . . . . . . just curious if that is a possibility. (What a troublemaker )

Hopefully the way I have scheduled the boxes (ref: chart) that should never happen. With everyone keeping the box six days plus transit time there "should" be at least nine weeks before you see the next box. If it happens we will work something out (as you suggested, probably more time with the second box). As an example; you are #3 on the West list and #10 on the East list. The only way you could end up with "both" boxes is that #2 held the West box for over nine weeks. The same scenerio should apply to everyone else's schedule.

I don't know looks like that guy Mike Miller will end up with the box about the same time toward the end of the pass.

Hot Dog! Almost here!

Can't wait to dig into those boxes! Going to be a great spring here in the Great Plains!

Thanks again, Mike, for putting it all together! Great scheduling work too! Two boxes cross country that should never meet! Cool Beans!

Ahhhhh, now I see. Taking a better look at the chart (nice chart there, Mike!), I see that the names don't occur on the same number at same time. Hmmmmmmm.......foiled again! Must - use - brain - before - typing . . . . Nah, that's no fun.

eggman wrote:

I don't know looks like that guy Mike Miller will end up with the box about the same time toward the end of the pass.

Ah-hah! That Mike guy, he's a crafty one.

Mike,

Though it's been said far better & more eloquently than I ever could: You're the man! Thanks again for taking time out of your busy schedule to do this for the members of this group...

Could there possibly be a better name for you than "The Coordinator" ?

Best,
Dock