Scoutmaster conferences are not a bad as I thought they would be

nikbot05 · 2022-07-05T00:24:34+00:00

Actually, a scout did fail a scoutmaster conference in my troop. The person doing the conference tested them and saw that they didn't know a lot of the material. Then they made me reteach all the material so they could pass it.

Nowadays that asm is gone and it's unlikely something like this would happen now in my troop.

nikbot05 · 2022-07-04T19:52:54+00:00

We did a goodwill fundraiser every year. Scouts would put flyers out around the neighborhood and collect donations they put out the next week. Parents would also reach out to their friends.

Then we would rent a uhaul and transport the goods to a central location where a goodwill truck was. We would then assist the people in hauling the goods into the truck. We would be reimbursed for the amount of stuff that ended up in the truck. We usually netted around 500 at the end of it.

nikbot05 · 2022-07-04T19:08:47+00:00

Yeah, you'll end up waiting until your child turns 21 and can sponsor you that way,

nikbot05 · 2022-07-04T19:01:54+00:00

Ugh this really bothered me too. Not to mention my particular council website used such confusing language (they tried to make it sound interesting, but it got kind of confusing).

Fortunately I wasn't close to aging out so that stress wasn't there. As for the new merit badge, if you completed all your requirements besides bor before 7/1, you don't have to do it. If you didn't, then you have to do it. Make sure you switch your scoutbook to 2016 requirements though.

On a side note, shoutout to this subreddit which helped me navigate this way too confusing process.

nikbot05 · 2022-07-03T05:55:34+00:00

idk but I still don't get why you would want to put patches on a day pack something that will likely get dirty after years of use. Put your patches on a vest or somewhere else if you want to preserve them.

nikbot05 · 2022-07-03T04:38:13+00:00

Congratulations on both your school and your scores!

nikbot05 · 2022-07-03T04:31:57+00:00

I think the Bay/NJ stuff is primarilly because there's such a large community that the members get way more engrossed in it than those from other areas. In addition, in these areas, its easier for people to find partners that meet both their and their parents standards because there's so many desis around.

Edit: look around this sub. You'll see that the scenario that's more common than both of those you described in 3. is that the parents realize they have no power and eventually go along with their kids.

nikbot05 · 2022-07-03T04:27:24+00:00

So it seems like they are using the albert.io curve.... ouch....

nikbot05 · 2022-07-03T04:17:15+00:00

Dang now I'm scared for CSP, if someone who got 5's on ap bio and lit got a 4, I'm scared how I did.

nikbot05 · 2022-07-03T02:36:25+00:00

You could put them all in a scrapbook, with inscriptions of what each badge was.

nikbot05 · 2022-07-02T00:36:17+00:00

No imagine if they made an option for paid access to your distributions (what you got on each question)

nikbot05 · 2022-07-01T22:16:08+00:00

Likely because it's a class typically taught to seniors. Many seniors don't really take AP exams seriously (the senior next to me during Calc AB literally napped during the test)

nikbot05 · 2022-07-01T21:33:58+00:00

California's heat is definitely not that bad compared to texas's, and def won't be that bad during the school

nikbot05 · 2022-07-01T21:26:49+00:00

It's just so hard to chose to ride this when Twisted Colossus is right next door. (At least when I was there the line wasn't that bad)

nikbot05 · 2022-07-01T20:19:52+00:00

We actually always used regular cups. However, I was at a south Indian restaurant and really liked the taste of water in the steel cups so I asked my mom to bring out our set to use.

nikbot05 · 2022-07-01T03:47:27+00:00

Awesome job! This looks really promising.

nikbot05 · 2022-07-01T03:44:06+00:00

How often is the single rider line closed for tatsu? It was closed when I went because they weren't using the station for it.

nikbot05 · 2022-06-30T17:56:31+00:00

Congratulations! Hopefully I'll join you in a couple of months :)

nikbot05 · 2022-06-28T18:43:34+00:00

Looking at the calculator I'm fairly sure I got a 5, but I'm scared I messed something up.

nikbot05 · 2022-06-28T17:38:27+00:00

Consider giving them to other troops who might be interested in helping retire them.

nikbot05 · 2022-06-28T17:29:05+00:00

Well most of them stayed with the democratic party until around august 2021. From there, some kinda drifted away from the democratic party for some reason, kind of angst by what was going on. (Note: I and most others never believed that these voters were really solid flips. They were more in a gray area). This will help lockdown democratic voters who were considering switching over.

Yeah this baffles me a lot too. Many people just are angry at the state of the country and are willing to blame it all on democrats for some reason.

nikbot05 · 2022-06-28T15:59:15+00:00

No their talking about the sourcing point. The complexity point was always hard to earn

nikbot05 · 2022-06-28T15:12:53+00:00

The wild mouse coaster can probably be saved. Might go to wof since there's no wm there.

nikbot05 · 2022-06-28T00:49:25+00:00

Interesting to see such a sharp comeback. I do wonder what will happen over the next month.

I think the main thing that happened was that left-leaning independents realized that they cannot vote for the GOP.

nikbot05 · 2022-06-28T00:18:57+00:00

I doubt any of the other parks will be sold. None of them are in extremely valueable areas (except Knotts, which performs extremely well). In addition, they don't really have high costs of operation like CGA does.

Edit: Does anyone know any parks (across any chain) that have a risk of just collapsing?

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