Grand Master Report

2005/01/26, 11:59 AM, Grand Master - The Council

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_The Twenty-Sixth of January in the Year of Darkness,

Two-Thousand and Five  

**Report Ten**_

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[- It's good to be the Jac -](#1)  

[- Situational Commentary -](#2)  

[- JACtion Update: Covenant and Website Design -](#5)  

[- Conception: A rebirth update -](#6)  

[- Upcoming medal changes -](#7)  

[- Big Props -](#Props)  




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Hello again everyone. Welcome to my weekly delve into the Life of Jac. This 
week has been filled with so many ups and downs that it was unbearable. I'm 
sure some of you noticed that I wasn't myself last week....and I think it 
was rightly so.  



So I took exams before Christmas break, and, to make a long story short, 
there was a problem with one and I had to retake it last wednesday. Further, 
I could have sworn I failed my contracts exam, and I missed more classes 
than what is allowed for Criminal Law, and the teacher could have failed me 
for that.  



Considering that my entire life is pretty much based off of my grades for 
now, I was going through hell last week waiting for them. They came on 
Saturday, but all week I was going through the thought process of what 
happens if I fail, I had to retake the test, and then I had to go home for a 
fiancee adventure. I needed to get a 2.7 to keep the nice 27,000 dollar 
scholarship that I get each year.  



Much to my surprise, I pulled off a 3.498 gpa. YAAAAAY!  



I can now relax and get back to normal. I'm caught up in classes, email, 
DBish issues, and stuff like that. I've continued my workout regimen from 
the year's start, and have lost close to 15 pounds in 3 weeks. The fiancee 
is happy with me these days....Everything is all around good. Go to 
Situational Commentary for my DB stuff.  



So yeah -- it was a rough week, but it ended well. Needless to say, Jac is 
back in full Jac-form.

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I had two really good talks last night, one with BF and one with Pyralis. 
There is a reason that I keep those two on my staff. BF knows to come to me 
and tell me what is up and what he thinks needs be done, and Pyr knows how 
to kick me in the nuts to get me moving on things.  



I've talked about this before a lot, about how I have a tendency to 
sometimes fluctuate my DB activity. I'll hit a rough week, fall behind on 
things, and then it takes me a bit to catch up. I was really good the two 
months before winter break, but then it's taken me until now to get things 
back up.  



The reason I bring this up is that the DB has a problem in that things have 
a tendency of flaring up and going to hell when I'm not paying attention. I 
talked with Pyr a lot about this last night, that the DC and the DB on the 
whole, while it is an independent entity lead by independent people, relies 
a bit too much on Trickle-down activity.  



This is why I have always picked leaders by their show of initiative. It's 
one of the greatest things about people like BF, Kaiann, Trev, Mav, Lannie 
etc.: They see a problem, they confront it, come up with a solution, make 
decisions, and fix it. A lot of times we get into the bad habit of seeing a 
problem, saying &quot;oh look! there's a problem&quot;, and then nothing gets done.  



I want you all to watch for that this week. Constructive initiative is the 
name of the game. When you are in discussions about a project, instead of 
saying &quot;that won't work&quot; say &quot;that won't work, here's why, and here's and 
alternative solution.&quot; You'll find your productivity rise a lot.

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<>- JACtion Update: Covenant and Website 
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I know I said last week that I was going to finish the covenant and the 
website design. I wish I had, cause I don't like it all hanging over my 
head.  



I'll have some good time this weekend. Don't make any problems that I need 
to solve and I'll get some progress made.

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<>- Conception: A Rebirth Update -</td>

I started work last week on what I am calling &quot;The Conception Project.&quot; 
Basically, what I am doing is fleshing out the work that still needs to be 
done for rebirth that people other than CG, Jam3z and I can do. This 
includes text for different parts of the website, help pages, form layouts, 
etc. etc.  



My goal with this is to primarily free up some more of my time so I can help 
CG and Jam3z, as well as to get things done faster. I will be assigning 
these tasks to DC members and other competent peeps to have the tasks 
completed in a good timely fashion.  



Just thought I'd let ya'll know.

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<>- Upcoming medal changes -</td>

Many of you, I'm sure, saw CoFo's quick post about some medal changes. That 
was a little incomplete version, but I just thought I would state the fact 
that, yes, we are making some changes.  



This will include a new medal as well. :) Fun Fun Fun Fun yaaaay

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<>- Big Props -</td>

- Me for getting a 3.5 -

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Mandalorian Darcy Avarik, 26 Jan, 2005 12:18 PM

Congratulations on the 3.5!
Not that I know what that means, but I'm assuming its a performance rating system of some sort :P Well done, if its the rating thing I'm thinking of, 3.5 is pretty close to perfect.

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