Fellow Akers,
It is with some hesitation and regret that I must announce the postponement of the 2014 Central Ohio GTG. If all goes well we will not have to change the name to the 2015 Central Ohio GTG! In the end it had to do with the “where” part of the equation. There just wasn’t a practical solution. But other factors were a pretty big influence too. Due to schedules, I wasn’t able to garner any local support. While I anticipated doing a lot, I didn’t anticipate everyones schedules prohibiting them from helping out in some capacity. Moving forward, I know that I must coordinate with all the locals and test the waters to determine the best time for them and let out of town people see if it works for them after and go from there. In my desire to be democratic I did it the other way around and what happened was the there are a good number of out of towers that plan on making the trip but the locals have to attend to other commitments. In an effort to salvage the event after Marc regretfully let us know that due to flood he couldn’t host, I asked my wife for some help to pull it off. My son has a week between summer school and real school and my wife had planned a vacation for them out of town and she doesn’t want to have to get ready to go and host a bunch of friends of mine at the same time. I totally get that. In fact, she said she’d do it, but hesitantly so. I mulled it over for a good while and determined that it the stars just weren’t aligned. I’m hoping to rekindle the flames for this and get a date scheduled for a fall GTG. I hope this brief note properly conveys what all is happening and apologize for any inconvenience. My heart is in the right place but in all honesty I probably did a poor job of coordinating the event for personal reasons. My desire is to refocus and plan a GTG worthy of my fellow Akers!
What I want to do next is have a meal with Joon, Marc, Jose and Paul (plus other locals who have interest) and construct a heavy weight plan.
Thanks for al the support so far gang! I know this is going to be killer. If I hosted something next week it wouldn’t be an “event”, it would just be a thrown together thing and I don’t want that; I want to make memories and friendships. Stay tuned!
Yours in audio,
kevinmasters