Buttons

So I went into SA and they didn't have anymore buttons left. Kat, do you have any left? If so, can I get two? I will be at the PDG and can pay you then. If not, does anyone have suggestions of where else to get them?

Tim, how is it that I have a 4-pack sitting on my desk here in Chicago and you don't have one?

Hiya Leela!!! I hear you're stopping up to say hi :cool: :cool:

Yep, unless Tim crashes his car before we get there.

Congratulations! You have successfully registered your 2010 Winter Carnival Button on-line!

Your confirmation # is: 8799

just made my day!!!

Awwww.... Kitchypoo I love you too.

I think he just liked imagining me in a car crash.

no, 2 less hunters

be safe...you have precious cargo.

Remind me to tell you a story that Trig told me the other day. Heh

Yes - I still have some...

Do you want the regular ones or the blinkie ones (these are $7 the regulars are $5).. will you be at the pre-dig before 8:30?

Because it's Tim and he likes to support us Tax Collectors but never hooks up with me prior to the pre-dig!!! What is this Tim the third year we have done this? :wink:

:cool:

Yeah Lisa, former tax collector. Can't even support your own.

For shame.

Yes, it is a shame that Kat and I never hooked up.

Can someone give me the link to register my buttons?

:smile:

Or just that it was never registered online.

You mean like the link at the top of the page? :eyeroll: :wink:

Thank you, thank you, thank you, I will keep in a safe place this time. I owe you one.

Thanks! I don't think that I'm going to make the predig. Grab me a Cooler Crew button and we'll trade during the hunt.

What?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WHAT?!!!!!

you may not be with us Saturday night?

its tradition, there is only technically one reason why any of us should miss a pre-dig -- okay 2.... you are in the hospital OR you plan on taking Taters church up on their offer. :frown:

whiney.... WWWWHHHHHHYYYYYY???? it's not the same without you. :frown:

but I will take this saintly ....

JOE!

Hey what's the deal with online button registration? Someone posted on the PP board saying that she received an email reply from the PP saying that online registrations are not valid for the medallion hunt. I thought Kat and others in the Cooler said that online registrations were good enough.

They are I am more worried about the Fact everyone thinks there is a $5 dollar cover that keeps getting posted about and asked about!!

:angry:

The person who posted said that the e-mail came from Lori Swanson via Amy Nelson. Does anyone know who they are and if they are authoritative on this?

Lori Swanson is the name of the Minnesota Attorney General. Probably a different Lori.

I just called Fury Motors and the switchboard gal talked to some people and they weren't sure if the online registration qualifies and suggested mailing in the card. She said to call back tomorrow and talk to Matt Angstman, the sales manager. Appropriate name, Angstman. I'm suffering some angst myself just thinking about it. I didn't keep my card because I don't use the coupons.

On the PP site where there are links having to do with the hunt, there is this. I don't recall seeing that before, but I wasn't really looking. Anyway, when you click on that the article isn't found and when I cut and pasted it to a search nothing was found.

Button registration for the Treasure Hunt: What counts

http://www.twincities.com/

This might explain the new link. From the PP Discussion Board:

They are going to accept online reg. They will be putting something on the front page of Twincities.com soon.

They've added text to the link I posted above, but the deadline for registering buttons online differs from the date on the page where you actually register your button.

Buttons for the Treasure Hunt: What counts Pioneer Press Updated: 01/15/2010 06:37:41 PM CST We will accept online registration and mail-in registration of Winter Carnival buttons for the Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt. Online registration must be received and mail-in registration must be postmarked by Jan. 16, 2010. All registration is through the Winter Carnival.

From the online registration page:

Deadlines: Mailed cards must be postmarked by January 17, 2010 Online Registration must be entered by 11:59 p.m. on January 17, 2010

Kind of a mess.

anyone who doesnt use the coupons on the cards should bring them to pre-dig and leave them on a table or basket or something for others to grab and use.

There's no drawing this year right?

It does say on the mail-in card that if you use computer registration you need to keep the card in order to provde that you actually bought a button.

What?? You must come. Wahhhhhhhhhh

He'll be busy hiding the thing when we're all cozy at the PDG. :wink:

Gonna miss ya Jess

Say you posted you were in ord. are you up her in minnie yet?

Yes, spent the evening with the in-laws. Got to hear about all the aches and pains and their digestive problems. It was great.

sounds fun :chagrin:

Lori Swanson and Amt Nelson both are PP employees.

Will do. I always spot you somewhere in the park - well when I'm in the right one. :sheepish:

He He I almost forgot I bought my button like a month ago.

Your confirmation # is: 9290

I has buttons for the whole family. thanks kat.

The carnival kind of dropped the ball on getting buttons out to the stores this year. I spent a couple of hours tonight with my daughter driving around to various SA's looking for buttons for her and her husband. Most said they've been out for over a week. Even tried the sponsor of the hunt, Fury Motors, earlier today and they aren't even selling them. Finally found a broken pack of four that had two buttons left down near CM's on Concord in IGH.

Agree with with all you said! Any comment "official buttton lady" Kat?

CUB FOODS still has them at their service desks, even though they are not a major sponsor. - I see a lot of messages about SuperAmerica but not Cub - is Cub sold out or what?