I didn’t say anything about “net profit”, Greg. Just that getting paid some dollars for an event is better than getting paid zero dollars. And I figured it’d go into the LUG kitty, anyway. My point was, if we wanted to continue doing train layouts, it would behoove us to (a) focus our efforts on standardization and repeatability (i.e. – keeping stuff built so we can reuse next time), and (b) keep doing events that pay out, like Greenberg, so we’re recouping at least some of our investment. If we do more Greenberg events (or similar), we just need better / earlier planning, and to build on what we’ve done for this one, rather than starting from scratch like we have for every collaborative project we’ve done thus far.
You’re absolutely right that everyone worked really hard on this, and I think we can be fairly proud of the results. As Josh reminded me the other day, though (while I was struggling with the mountain), this is supposed to be fun. If we’re too stressed out over pulling together big displays, or having too many weekends taken up by them, or if we’re getting grouchy and yelling at each other, or it becomes un-fun in any way, we need to reevaluate. Well worth further discussion at Q4, says I.