Month: July 2004

Working again today.
I actually don’t mind working the weekend when we aren’t having any problems. What irks me is when we have a facilities problem and we know that all of the offices are closed for the weekend. I’d hate to think what would happen if we had a fire or a flood. Could we get enough of our staff to come in and save the collection?

So, the LARP with the teens went pretty well. They are very enthused about continuing. Tim the Amtgard guy has them pretty much sold on trying Amtgard (www.amtgard.com). Structure is a good thing in this case, and with an organization we will hopefully pull in people who are interested in playing and not just putzing around.

Next project is the local SCA group picnic in August. That’s a more or less informal affair, but we do need to be ready for it.

Tired
Tired
Tired

*YAWN*

Doin’ the teleconference thing.

Tired

So the local LARP teens came over to my house yesterday for a costume sewing event.

They are so funny. It must be great to have so much @#$##@ free time. They were supposed to arrive at 3:30. So I got home from work, cleaned up the house and was ready for them at 3:30. They called around 4:15 to say they had just gotten up from a nap and that they had to stop and pick someone up and then they would be right over…
Well, after three more phone calls
1. lost on the way to the third person’s house
2. at the store, how much fabric should they buy
3. lost on MY STREET

they finally arrive around 6:30. We start talking about sewing and I get a call from my dad. So, while I’m talking to him (for about 30 minutes) they are sitting around looking at patterns. I get back in and we decide to make T-tunics (no pattern required). I cut out the first batch of fabric and we’re ready to sew. But no one knows how to use the single sewing machine they have brought. So…I sew on my machine (thank goodness we were at my house) and they do all the pinning.

They left around 11:00 with one tunic (out of over 30 yards of fabric they had brought) and hopefully enough know how to cut out and sew the rest.

I hope they had fun. I felt bad because we didn’t have enough for them to do. We’ll be playing on Thursday, so we’ll see how much they get done.

So Roland called me last night and he’s planning a LARP for next week. It must be nice to have such an open schedule. Tom’s going to try to make it and we have a few other friends who said they’d help including Tim, the new guy, who is an experienced LARPer with Amtgard. I’m not super thrilled about running around with a foam sword anyway. I like the planning and the roleplaying, but I can live without the running and the hitting. (And no, this isn’t sour grapes, I swear)

Udderwise all is more or less well. I have Sat. off to go to a 1 day event. It’s a day of classes so that should be a good time. I like hands on things.

You Are Late Period Western European Nobility.
Nothing excites you more than looking sharp,
even if it breaks your bank or causes you heat
stroke in the middle of summer. Be sure to
drink lots and lots of water, because it can
get rather warm under 8 layers of velvet and
brocade!

What Is Your SCA Clothing Style?
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Darn slanted quizzes. I couldn’t find answers I liked.

So,
I’m waiting for things to happen.
I’m waiting to get out of here tonight.
I’m waiting for my Dr.’s appt. tomorrow (just a check-up).
I’m waiting for Mr. Phil to get back from guard duty.
I’m waiting for the weekend so I can get some sleep and go to Eno Academy.

I’m just waiting.

We took Tom to the Dr. yesterday for his chronic ingrown toenail. I thought he was just going to examine it and schedule us for treatment at a later time. Oh no. The nurse took us right into the procedure room. The Dr. came in, Novocaine’d up the toe, took out his scissors and whacked off about half of Tom’s big toenail. Then he cauterized the nail bed and the nurse bandaged him up and we were on our way. Whew! It actually doesn’t look too bad. Tom says it’s throbby, but he put some antibiotic cream on it today, took some ibuprophen for the pain and went on his merry way. This is a problem he’s had for about 8 to 12 months and suddenly it’s all gone. He’s looking forward to being able to lunge and wear real shoes again. Maybe his fencing will improve ;) I know I’ll be happy when he isn’t constantly showing me his goopy old toe and asking me if I think it looks infected, so it’s all good.

So, I’m not going to get to Pennsic this year. No surprise there. But we are planning to do a little weekend event here to make up for it. OK, it’s not REALLY an EVENT, because then we’d have to put it in the Kingdom Newsletter, and it’s too late for that, yadda, yadda…
SOOO, we are having an “extended overnight practice” at a local campground and inviting all the local people.
BUT now we have a problem. The place we have picked is a campground on Ft. Bragg and people can’t camp there if they don’t have official military ID’s. Most of the people in the local group have them. But people from the wider Barony don’t. So we have a dilemma. Invite people for the day, but not to camp and use the kewl site (which we have already been promoting) OR choose another site which may cost more, be less convenient and have fewer amenities. What’s a poor organizer to do?

I polled the group. I’m interested to see what they come up with.

So, I played through the end of the Diablo II expansion last night. It was fun, but it definitely felt tacked on. None of the bad guys were as tough as I had expected and I defeated the big boss, Baal, in one go-round. I had expected to die at least two times. Diablo was tougher, in my opinion. Now I can play the secret cow level (heh, heh).

SCA meeting tonight. It’s the business meeting. We’re planning an event and I hope we can make some progress on it tonight.

Work continues. We’re trying to keep everyone busy.