[Sca-cooks] cooks guild gear

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Mark Calderwood:
>At 17:57 6/02/03 -0500, you wrote:
>>question for this august group is:  What would you consider the highest
>>priorities for cooking and serving gear?  Got a list?  What can't we do
>>without?
>
>This probably goes without saying, but whatever you get mark it clearly and
>obviously as *your* gear. Keep a list of exactly what you have and check it
>thoroughly as it goes in and out, especially if you loan it to other people
>to make sure that it comes back in good condition. Also keep it with
>someone you can trust rather than a storage facility.
>
>I found out the hard way a couple of months ago that the several hundred
>dollars' worth of cooking and serving gear from my barony had gone missing
>because it was kept in a storage unit where people could just wander in
>help themselves, and nobody kept a check on what went in or out. Then they
>were surprised when they had no gear come feast time. Quadrupeds.

About every six months, we're supposed to be inventorying our
Provincial feast gear, but there are about four people in the group
actually capable of and interested in doing this (and three of them
are on this list; when the fourth gets sufficiently bullied by the
other three, it's time to actually do it -- hint hint). In theory, we
do this, and every time we or one of our cantons uses the gear, we're
supposed to print out a checklist either of all the stuff or
specifically what is needed for the event, and use that checklist to
make sure everything is returned or otherwise accounted for. This is
supposed to control equipment losses and help us make up shopping
lists for new equipment, but we still lose equipment every so often.

In theory, this system should work flawlessly, but clearly it does
represent some time and effort. Then again, anything worth having is
worth maintaining.

Adamantius