Sparkly Things

So, after many weeks of planning and agonizing, the weather comes to bear. We are planning a Pennsic War Orphans party for this weekend and TWO hurricanes come barreling up the coast at us.

I’m going to give it until tomorrow to decide, but it looks like we’re going to cancel. Aargh, aargh!

There is a strange sense of relief, though. Any time an event I’ve been planning gets cancelled I am disappointed, but also a little relieved to have the unscheduled free time.

It’s Tom’s short weekend, and so he’s filled up all of his time. Not that I’m much better. He was at the beach yesterday with Gavin the news guy. I worked and went to the Mongolian Barbecue with the SCA folks. We had a nice time. Tim the houseguest arrived this morning. He’s been working third shift, so he’s currently sacked out at our place. Tom’s at fighter practice and I’m at work. Then food shopping and (hopefully) a quiet night in.

Next week should be interesting. Mr. Phil has decided to stay in NC, so he’s going to be working to get the staff motivated and projects underway. I’m in favor of the change and I hope it translates into more hours. Full time pay would be nice.

So, in the spirit of friendly relations we are opening our house to one of the new SCAdians for a week as he looks for a new place in town. This should be interesting. I spent all of last night cleaning up the house to get it ready for Tim. I hope he can stand to sleep on the futon for a week.

The Quarter
http://www.thequarter.org
is Trimaris’s parody SCA publication. It’s very funny and if you are into the SCA and can appreciate a kind of politically charged sense of humor I suggest you check it out. The only off putting thing as far as I am concerned is the focus on Trimaris personalities, but as many SCAdians share similar personality traits, it’s not too hard to extrapolate to your local group.

The comics and mock ads are the best part.

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.