I received an e-mail a couple of weeks ago informing me that the link to the 2024 Skeeter Hunt scoreboard was no longer working. I went to the Webpage, clicked on the link and sure enough, it wasn't working!
I immediately went to my Google Drive to find that the spreadsheet was no longer there. I sure as heck don't remember going there and deleting it! Maybe I did, accidentally, but I seriously doubt that I did. What the heck, Google?!? All the other spreadsheets are still there, only 2024 is missing, so I guess I must have stupidly done something I shouldn't have.
The good thing is that I still have all the results e-mails saved, so like the Six Million Dollar Man, "We can rebuild it." I don't have too much planned for this weekend, so that's what I hope to do. It's only about 150 scores or so, it shouldn't take me forever.
What I do plan to do, however, is to take a run to Target and purchase a thumb drive dedicated solely to Skeeter Hunt spreadsheets and other Skeeter Hunt data, so that I have a back up of what's existing in the cloud. I don't ever want this to happen again. And should the day ever come that I am not able to run the Skeeter Hunt anymore, all the data can be trusted to whomever might volunteer to take it over. (Hard lesson learned from FOBB and the circumstances related to Rich Fisher KI6SN).
Now don't get all panicky on me! I'm not saying that anything is going to happen to me, but I want to make sure the Skeeter Hunt will be around long after I am not - some day very far, far away into the future.
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
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