### The Weekly Jac

Report from the Office of the Deputy Grand Master

7 . 12 . 2003 <-

"Bite me, Jac" - Ronin in response to me asking to be removed from their rosters

**** All That Personal Stuff ****

So this has been a pretty dang good week. I still haven't gotten a dent in my to-do list, but we have gotten a few things out of the week.

I took my first two quizzes in 2 of my classes this week. Definately got a 100% going in my CIS class and I think my stats quiz was pretty close to perfect. I'll know on Monday. Either way, I think I'm doing better in school right now than ever before.

Yesterday I took my girlfriend out for our Year and a half anniversary. I made the mistake of taking her to this place called Smith and Wollensky. The food there was amazing...I got this gigantic T-Bone steak that was like wow....but the bill totalled $106 with tip....not cool. I guess I shoulda expected that.

Also saw Pirates of the Carribean last night. AWSOME MOVIE!!! Seriously -- my girlfriend liked it, which means anything that breathes and has the ability to comprehend small mathmatical sentences should enjoy it as well. I love my gf. Anyway -- I think I liked the movie better than I liked the Matrix Reloaded....and that's hard to do.

**** Area 51 added to the Message Boards ****

This week I added a restricted area, Area 51, to the message boards. This is where we're going to have restricted forums like the Dark Council Forum and the moderators forum. There's also one there for DC/CONs/PCONs.

Note to all Moderators: the new Area 51 Moderator board is for where you will put any and all deleted posts. So instead of actually deleting them, you need to move them to that forum. I don't ever want to see another topic deleted. ok?

**** JRDC ****

The newest JRDC is out! It will be going on until tomorrow!

CLICK HERE!

**** Competition Approval ****

There were a few problems with the competition approval form. Not big deals, but if caused me to miss a few...my apologies.

Also -- anyone who has a problem with it, please come tell me. I've read some rambling about it in the channels, but heard no feedback to myself. Please keep in mind too that this is a ongoing form -- we will add more functionality as we go.

**** Orders Changes ****

As most of you know, we have released a big change in the orders. The basics of the change are like this: Order gaming platforms have moved away from specific games and participation in events is no longer strict according to orders; everyone can do everything.

The main point of this change is to make us have less restrictions in what we can do. We felt that there was no need to restict participation in orders as all it does it is promote clones. We don't like clones because they inflate our numbers and split people's activity up among two sources. Furthermore, it gives us room for expansion into new games. There are a lot of Star Wars mods coming out, and there are a bunch of games that are played by a good portion of the DB; and they will be used. I will be introducing a proposal that Mav wrote after a bunch of discussions between him a few mmbers and I that will deal with this issue of adding games. Stay tuned for that.

All in all i feel that this will help us grow and it is the first step in many toward becoming a better organization.

**** Bite me, Jac ****

Ronin has informed us that he would like us to email him to be removed from the EH roster. Of course, you shouldn't mock him with his very own "contact your ISP" threats or he will tell you to bite him. Of course -- it has been 4 days and I'm still there....Guess it's pretty hard to get something like this done over there.

**** Big Props ****

big props Big Props BIG PROPS!!!

My first shout outs go Tissaya and Phage. Both of them contributed greatly to the two new Shadow Academy courses and it is much appreciated! Yaaaay!

Second, Big Props to to Trev for his help with Project: Hush Hush

Third, huge Props to Mage for his recent initiative in helping with spelling corrections on the website and with random things like the run-on!

Props to Reza on the promotion to Battlemaster!

and finally, Big Props to Dalthid for his promotion to Archpriest!

**** The List: ToDoToDoToDo ****

• Finish work on 1 main proposals (down from 2)

• Finish work on 3 other proposals (down from 4)

• Get caught up with some of the DC members and Consuls

• Run the next JRDC

• Update the DGM site

• get a 4.0 in school (yeah good luck)

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again."

His Eminence, Lord Jac Ae-Sequiera Cotelin

Deputy Grand Master to the Brotherhood

Grand Master Emeritus, Ex-Fleet Admiral

aka That Stupid Jac Guy