Month: April 2006

Albert Einstein: “The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.”

Saw a mommy and daddy Canada Goose with four fluffy, yellow and brown goslings on the way to work today. Hooray!

Not my picture, but you get the idea.

I got the word today, Phil (old boss) is planning to come back in September. That means I take off the Boss Hat (which I don’t mind so much) and go back to being a Part Time Peon (which I do mind). It’s not so much the loss of $$, although that does sting a bit, it’s the sense of going backwards and losing control over a bunch of stuff that has been going pretty well for me lately. That and going back to doing all of MY work and most of the Boss work and having him skate out for a week every month. I could look upon it as an opportunity to coast and let him deal (or not deal) with all of the work and get swamped and etc., but the final upshot of all of that is that the library will suffer and I would have trouble letting that happen.

So, I’m looking around and weighing my options. There may be another opportunity here that will allow me to stay in the area. That would be ideal. If that doesn’t happen, we may be looking for a position somewhere else in the world. I have until September to make up my mind, but it doesn’t seem like long enough right now.

A great weekend was had. Gaming on Friday was subdued, but it was great to see Charlie and April and Shane. Camping was very wonderful with fun on the lake and yummy food all ’round. Tiernen got his Mt. Dew and Heinz ketchup back with grace and dignity and we celebrated yesterday with macaroni and cheese and movies.

This week will be busy. I need to prepare at work and at home for my trip next week, get ready (make a banner and swaps stuff) for the Girl Scout Jamboree this weekend, clean the house, exercise, attend the SCA meeting on Thursday, then off to Jamboree on Friday and fly to St. Louis on Monday. Lots to do!

So…super excellent GM Charlie is back in town this week. While he has been gone, he has diligently been fleshing out his campaign world for the enlightenment of all. We are planning the next leg of our super kewl epic (epic in scope, not in level) game, a Crusade, planned by US, against the evil snake guys (Yuan-ti). They are BAD, they make monsters out of regular people, they keep slaves and they practice MAGIC (in this campagin world, only bad guys practice magic, good guys are psionic [and yes, Tiernen did complain about that]). So, mighty Paladin hero Santa Dona Ramona Del Rey, Senora del Faro (Saint Lady Ramona Del Rey, Lady of the Beacon [that’s me]) and her buddies, Tyr Willshaper (Tom) and Thodin (Anthony) and whatever character Shane is playing now will be travelling to the jungles (or maybe the desert) with over 18100 soldiers and knights and stuff to kill snake guys and free slaves and take territory and collect loot. Hooray! Probably not all of that in one night. We’ll have to wait for Charlie to come back for a longer period of time, like two weeks ;)

Also this weekend, SCA camping at Chez Lorrie and Sean and Baronial meeting on Sunday. Some time to rest and back to work (for me) on Monday. Tiernen has Monday off (lucky).

I don’t know if tiernen is going to be happy or miserable this week. He FINALLY got the new computer tower he’s been saving for, but he lost a bet and has to go a week without ketchup or Mt. Dew. Explain to me why his friends think it’s funny for his bet forfeits to make ME miserable. We had a nice time at the Ren Faire yesterday. Tiernen did a lot of fencing. I did some shopping and saw a few shows. Crafty Celts were not on site, so I’m still torc-less. I may wait and get one at Pennsic. I did get stripey knee length socks and good bread.

I’m thinking of going up to Washington, NC on Thursday to see the sister in concert. I’ll have to take the afternoon off to do so. I’m going to talk to the boss about it today.

Sorry I haven’t been posting more. I’m having a little attack of ennui.

Let’s see. I had a pretty nice time for Girl Scout training last week. I burned the side of my left hand with hot glue while I was there and it’s now all brown and crusty, but no one died, so that’s good.

We exercised Monday and Wednesday nights. Tuesday was Girl Scouts. They’re working on the sewing badge, so they tried out some machine sewing with a serger and a regular machine. They seemed to have a good time.

Thursday was SCA social night. We hung out at Barnes and Noble and chatted with the luverly SCA folks.

Tonight we’re getting ready for the weekend, mending garb for the Ren Faire and Cub Scout demo. Tomorrow we drive up to Raleigh for the Faire, then back to Fayetteville for the Scouts, then back up to Raleigh on Sunday for more Faire.

Work is keeping me pretty busy during the day. I’m trying to clear the decks for a trip to St. Louis for a conference the last week of the month.

That’s all for now.