RF - re: tavern & water and populace

[AMH/DBLJ]

As I understand it, our Chronicler has been begging the officers to summit
their reports to underwhelming response.  I know when I was Seneschal I even
gave each officer stamped envelopes to mail their reports in.  Guess what
happened...  Then, as now, it was like pulling teeth.  Then, as now the minuets
of the meeting were not recounted in the newsletter so the information that
came from non officers was lost if you were not one of the "lucky ones" able to
make the meetings.  From what you have suggested, since I am not a member of a
household, I should plan on calling people in the Barony to try to find someone
that was paying attention 100 % of the time and can remember everything that
happened on Thursday night.  Or everyone in the Barony that was not able to
make the meeting should tie up the Seneschal's phone for a few days. Or yours.

I am not looking for anything on a "silver platter".  I work hard for this
Barony and don't feel it is too much to ask to be kept informed.  The truth of
the matter is that if you live in southern part of the Barony and don't live in
Huntsville there is little to no effort to keep you up to date.  Just ask
anyone that lives down here.

See if you remember living out this conversation two or three or more times.  I
do.
Ring !  Ring !
Gwynn - "Hello."
Marius - "Hey, how y'all doin' ? ...bs... bs...bs..."
Gwynn - "...bs... bs...bs... Oh, by the way, there is a ( insert party or
special activity here ) for ( insert person or workshop here ) in about an hour
and a half."
Marius - "Really ?"
Gwynn - "Yea, you think you can you make it ?"
Marius - "No, I can't.  If I had known about it sooner I could have arranged
things..."

I found out about the recent meeting you and Zorc attended at Charlie's by
accident only a day or two before it happened.  I have been very active in that
area of study and would have loved to have made it, but guess what ???   Let's
say it all together now... I didn't have enough time to rearrange my schedule.
Tough luck for me.  I don't believe that we in the south are purposely snubbed,
it's just that if we don't live in the Huntsville neighborhood, we don't even
cross your minds.  How many times have I begged someone, anyone to post things
on this Raven's Fort sounding board ???  I'm sure people are getting sick of
it.  I know I am.

>From the other post that I've seen the last couple of days it sounds like steps
are being made to relieve the ignorance that has been thrust upon us.  I loudly
applaud the efforts of these individuals.  We have a Seneschal that is
addressing the problem.  I loudly applaud him as well.  I will say however that
I feel that some of the problem would be eliminated if we went back to having
the officers give their reports first to allow those of us that work all day
and then drive a hundred miles round trip to attend the meeting a chance to
arrive.  I don't care what they do in other places in the Kingdom.  It is
frustrating to drive such a long way and miss the meat and potatoes of the
important business.  It's not a fair way of doing thing in my opinion.

On a freaking "silver platter".  Give me a freaking break.

Pax,
Marius




charlotte epps wrote:

> Greetings!
> I feel that I must put my two cents' worth in.
> We have only two hours a month to meet as a populace officially.  Not much
> can be discussed in that amount of time.  A lot of people in this group have
> widely different work schedules, some work from 8am to 5pm (the lucky ones)
> others have to deal with the night shift( a lot of us, consider all the TDC
> employees, nurses etc).  This is the reason why the hours of 7pm to 9pm
> where chosen.  so we all have to work within those constraints and try to do
> the best we can with it.
> Now, I have a big problem with people who complain that they are "kept in
> the dark".  NO ONE is kept in the dark.  If you are unable to attend a
> populace meeting many other ways of information are there for the benefit of
> the populace.  First and foremost we have a NEWSLETTER.  There is a lot of
> good information there, actually just about everything that happens
> everymonth.  It also lists all the officers' addresses and phone numbers
> should anyone need more information.  That is your FIRST step.  So subscribe
> to the bloody thing already!  It's only $12 a year!!!  Less than your
> average site and feast fee!  And that's not counting the gaz cost etc...
> Your second step, or option is to try to attend the officer's meeting.  All
> are welcome to this meeting.  Then, if you haven't been able to attend
> either of the meetings and still are not subscribed to the Quoth you can
> ask.  That's right!  It's as simple as that!  Just ask a fellow House
> member,  or call a friend who attended the last populace, or discuss it on
> the RF net or how about just asking the seneschal???  That's what is he is
> there for.
> If you really care you can get all and any of the information there is.  But
> nothing is or ever will be served on a silver platter.  Not in this game or
> any other.
> So there.  Time for me to get off the soap box.
> Gwynn the Lizardkeeper
>
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