I'm not going to make an iron-clad guarantee just in case I missed a tray of ships sometime, but I think that every bag will have Fed NCL and DW (or two, or three), two or three different Kzintis, two different Gorns, a Hydran or two, a battleship or dreadnought, a freighter or two (I think one bag has three), and probably some kind of Romulan, and probably at least half of them have some kind of Klingon. I saw a lot of Romulan firehawks but not 20 of them and I saw a lot of Fed OCLs and Romulan War Eagles and probably half of the bags got one Seltorian.

The way I do these is to take the plastic shoebox "trays" and "Tubs" and "cups" that Mike gives me, put them on all the left side of the conference table. In some cases, a container has only one kind of ship. In others, it has "all the Gorns" or "all the Hydrans". In other cases, it may be a mixed bag of small quantities. Fed ships with saucers and engine mounts are tricky (to many pieces) so those are individualized and one goes into each pot until I run out (about six).

Then I get five empty identical tubs, put one on the scale and the other four next to it, and set the "tare" on the scale so that the tubs don't count on the weight. Then I take each container of ships, take out five (sometime ten) and put one (sometimes two) into each tub.

By the time I have moved every container of ships from the left to the right side of the table (or vice versa), the tub on the scale is at 14 or 15 ounces. So I then randomly grab something(s) and make the tub on the scale hit 16-to-16.3 ounces. Then I hand that tub to Jean, and put the next tub on the scale and it will be somwhere between 14 and 16 so I "finish" it and then the other three. Then I do it all over.

After doing 20, I was out of the ships I just had a few of and down to the point that bag #21 would have 24 ships but only 10 types of ship (bag #20 had at least 12), so I stopped. Mike put the others all back in the storage room and Jean bagged up the 20 tubs.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, June 09, 2015 - 11:36 am: Edit

Arrest and trial: Steve P and I played a prank on Jean. She didn't like it and called the cops to have us arrested. The DA had us tried as juveniles and we were released after a stern talking to.