Crestline Soaring Society

The first Fly-In of the summer is scheduled for July 8, 2008, and we'd like to make t-shirts for it, since we haven't done a club shirt in a while.

None of the CSS Board members are artistically inclined, so we're counting on members or interested parties to come up with a design in time for us to get the shirts printed and ready for the fly-in.

So please brainstorm and draw using whatever tools you like and come up with something soon.

The folks where the weather station lives changed from cable internet to DSL, and there was a hitch in the transition, so I went up there and found a subnet mask setting to change and got them back on the net.

The power supply to the Ultimeter 2100 weather base unit had gone out, somehow. Made a trip to Radio Shack in Crestline and got a replacement, which got the weather station back up. The anemometer readings still aren't getting to the base station, and it was too damp, cold, and windy to get up on the roof without a spotter.

After voting (With a paper ballot! My candidate might win this time!) I went to the Ball's house to see what I could do for the weather station. They weren't home, so I couldn't get to anything, but looking at the sensor mast I saw that one of the lower mounts had shifted around a bit, making the mast only appear to be bent. One of the anemometer cups is off and David found it on their deck. If the cup can't be snapped back on (they have to be snapped on when the unit is unpacked) I can replace the anemometer/wind vane with the old non-heated one. The heated one freezes up pretty readily, so no big deal.

It's the time of year to re-elect our CSS officers. For most CSS members it's something that just comes and goes and doesn't really affect them very much. And for those few that have volunteered to hold an office it's a time to wonder, why am I doing this?

Getting new blood into the CSS officer list is a good thing. The more we have members that have held an office and see the workings of how we perpetuate and grow the site the more strength the CSS has. But also, it is good to not make too many changes all at once. If we had all new officers in the same year, there would be a fair amount of reinventing the wheel as the new group tries to take hold of important items like keeping the site insurance up, having our tax returns done, paying our bills, processing new members dues and cards, etc.

Our webhost applied some upgrades to the server last night, and our website naturally had a number of problems today. At first, only the weather pages were working, then the site was displaying properly but user logins were broken and the Oz Report Headlines weren't being fetched.

If you run into any odd/new website behaviors, please let me know.

Latest Glitch:
Fixed! Same Day! (1/17)

It's that time of year again. On about Jan 15th 2008 we'll be mailing out a CSS Flypaper to all members. It will have some reports by your officers and it will have an election ballot. If you know anyone you would like to nominate for a CSS office or if you would like to hold an office yourself please contact me prior to Jan 10th 2008 to have the name(s) included in the ballot.

Offices of the CSS are: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Site Coordinator, Editor and Webmaster, Activity Director.

Set for Saturday, Dec 22nd, 2007 (click for details)

Dianne McKenzie and photographer Julie Haynes have been collecting a mixture of HG and PG photos over the last year for a CSS 2008 Calendar. Ken Scott, a member who works at Xerox has laid the calendar out and had 200 copies printed.

The calendar looks GREAT!
Lots of beautiful flying photos and fun photos of members and fly-in crowds.

$20 each. Mailing one within California costs $5, slightly more for multiple copies or out-of-state.