Most of you anticipate the early days of spring by looking forward to days on the golf course, getting the bikes tuned up, pleasant walks in the par… or even the drudgery of cleaning winter’s debris from around the house. My idea of opening day may differ from yours. The opening in my days is envelopes. Once the Derby envelopes start arriving life changes for me. This year unreliable mail delivery has put me behind behind schedule. Entries are about equal with what they were last year at this time when we learned that the season would be delayed. Unreliable mail delivery has resulted in the number of entries received at about 40% of 2019 levels at this time.
I do enjoy operating our game and I am rewarded with 6.7% of every entry fee. But things have changed in the last 30 years. After getting home from work around 5:00 there is time for a quick meal and shower before plopping down at the computer. I try to give it at least three hours a night but am finding that I don’t do as well under artificial light as I once did. And on weekends I have a difficult time spending the ten hours a day that was possible in my 30s. Once upon a time I could key in 600 entries on a weekend day. Stamina, and my back, now make this tough to accomplish. But it will get done!
The time data below is for actual sheet entry only. It does not include other tasks like maintaining the the website and email list, tracking (lots of) Robin Rule Transactions, and generating bank deposits. All of this is not meant as a ‘grump’, just sharing.
Daily Time
Number of Sheets Entered
Total Time
Total Sheets Entered to Date
Entry Sheets
released
Saturday
February 27
0:30
17
H : M
Sheets
0:30
17
H : M
Total
0:45
24
H : M
Sheets
0:45
23
H : M
Sheets
1:15
41
H : M
Total
1:54
64
H : M
Total
No mail again means a wasted weekend!
0:45
25
49 Minutes
32 Sheets
3H 15M
132 Sheets
H : M
Sheets
At this time of year PMB135 is NEVER empty. But there have been no envelopes for 3 days!
2:39
89
3H 28M
121 Total
6H 43M
253 Total
H : M
Total
Empty again!
MAIL!
Unreliable mail deliveries have really hampered the progress of entering sheets
3H 49M
176 Sheets
1H 27M
78 Sheets
10H 32M
423 Total
12H 0M
501 Total
Entry Postmark Deadline April 1
Deadline
35H 48M 1,713 Total
9H 28M
513 Sheets
Worked on Hockey Reports
36H 57M
1,760 Total
1H 09M
47 Sheets
40H 05M
1,920 Total
3H 09M
160 Sheets
44H 11M
2,154 Total
4H 06M
234 Sheets
14H 45M
621 Total
2H 46M
120 Sheets
Worked on 288 check deposit.
Watched hockey game with Hawks crazy wife!
23H 24M
1,081 Total
8H 50M
580 Sheets
50H 24M
2,497 Total
26H 20M 1,200 Total
6H 13M
343 Sheets
2H 45M
119 Sheets
Disappointing number of entries means I will be done well before my wife’s May 19 birthday!
Hope to be finished entering by my long suffering wife’s birthday!
My wife’s
birthday