Weekend Update with Arontius.
Jul. 9th, 2006 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arontius.....Wow! What a busy weekend. But only a precursor to the week and next weekend itself. :-) I should be doing five hundred other things, but needed a break. Is it a good thing or a bad thing that 'taking a break' consists of writing in Live Journal? :-)
.....Went to FotCoG yesterday at Orting. It was rather warm. Got to see quite a few people. Then I wandered around site for a while, reliving old memories of the place. I went to my first war there, Guard Wars in 1992. It was the one with the 'ships' made of PVC tubing that kept breaking apart. The 'ship's' had a heck of a time even making it to 'shore', the archers were that good. Orting was also my first event as Inga's apprentice Shopkeeper. I had a good time that year and learned a lot. :-) Spent a number of events at Orting with the Spenser-Longfellow Trading Company (SLTC). We always had quite the merry encampment. Then there is always South Sound Unity Tourney, 2004. Ludya was the autocrat, but me, Giovanni and Frederick were her co-autocrats. The planning stage was confusing as hell (the Big K. made all our lives hell that summer). But when the event finally happened we were all amazed at how well it turned out. I'll miss Orting.
.....Stopped by Gwen and Rich's last night to say Hi to Rich one last time before he departs. Stayed for the Bar-B-Que portion of the program, but started falling asleep when the movie started up. Got to preview the site copy for J.C. though. It is coming together very well.
.....Worked on circlets last night as well as The Crier. Got up this morning and did the same thing. :-) The Crier is 95% complete. Only thing missing is the missive from Their Highnesses. They promised it to me today so I made .pdf files out of every page but that one and will wait until tomorrow to send it to the printer. Four circlet orders are complete and packaged and ready for drop off at USPS tomorrow. Dropped all the numbers into my Spread Sheet and realized that I've dropped below minimum wage again. I may have to raise prices again, which doesn't make me feel comfortable but I have to make at least minimum wage I think.
.....Cleaned the house and did laundry. Had to make a run to work to get some paper issued. That took me until about 5PM. Then I sat down and worked on the bills. That's when I noticed a little postcard that arrived in yesterday's bundle of mail. The 'Notice of Change of Value' for the house. Holy Cow! In just one year my house went from $181K up to $218K. IN ONE YEAR!!! I can't freakin' believe it! I keep wondering if there was a mistake made or something. I may just call (sometime AFTER J.C. :-)) to find out what the heck is happening.
.....Going to get my 'to-do' list for J.C. put together before I go to bed. Most things are coming together well. I was worried about the Site Security (guarding the side roads against 'ghosting'), but we're finally starting to get our arms around that one. Only big worry left is handicapped parking. I was hoping for volunteers to shuttle people from the Mill Lot to the hill top, but no takers. Renting a van is very pricey and I can't hit the budget that hard. I'm going to have to send out a note to the lists so that people are prepared to walk (or grab rides from friends). I'm not looking forward to that e-mail, that's for sure.
.....Gotta go to be early tonight. Tomorrow is the big transition to Code 392. Going to hit the floor running as it looks like we have two or three big projects already waiting in the wings for estimates and plans. Ack! What timing, three days before J.C. :-) I gotta take a break for a while after this one, I gotta recover what is left of my sanity and nurture it for a while. :-)
.....See you all next weekend. Stop me and say hi if I should pass you and not say anything. :-)
.....Arontius / Aaron.
.....Went to FotCoG yesterday at Orting. It was rather warm. Got to see quite a few people. Then I wandered around site for a while, reliving old memories of the place. I went to my first war there, Guard Wars in 1992. It was the one with the 'ships' made of PVC tubing that kept breaking apart. The 'ship's' had a heck of a time even making it to 'shore', the archers were that good. Orting was also my first event as Inga's apprentice Shopkeeper. I had a good time that year and learned a lot. :-) Spent a number of events at Orting with the Spenser-Longfellow Trading Company (SLTC). We always had quite the merry encampment. Then there is always South Sound Unity Tourney, 2004. Ludya was the autocrat, but me, Giovanni and Frederick were her co-autocrats. The planning stage was confusing as hell (the Big K. made all our lives hell that summer). But when the event finally happened we were all amazed at how well it turned out. I'll miss Orting.
.....Stopped by Gwen and Rich's last night to say Hi to Rich one last time before he departs. Stayed for the Bar-B-Que portion of the program, but started falling asleep when the movie started up. Got to preview the site copy for J.C. though. It is coming together very well.
.....Worked on circlets last night as well as The Crier. Got up this morning and did the same thing. :-) The Crier is 95% complete. Only thing missing is the missive from Their Highnesses. They promised it to me today so I made .pdf files out of every page but that one and will wait until tomorrow to send it to the printer. Four circlet orders are complete and packaged and ready for drop off at USPS tomorrow. Dropped all the numbers into my Spread Sheet and realized that I've dropped below minimum wage again. I may have to raise prices again, which doesn't make me feel comfortable but I have to make at least minimum wage I think.
.....Cleaned the house and did laundry. Had to make a run to work to get some paper issued. That took me until about 5PM. Then I sat down and worked on the bills. That's when I noticed a little postcard that arrived in yesterday's bundle of mail. The 'Notice of Change of Value' for the house. Holy Cow! In just one year my house went from $181K up to $218K. IN ONE YEAR!!! I can't freakin' believe it! I keep wondering if there was a mistake made or something. I may just call (sometime AFTER J.C. :-)) to find out what the heck is happening.
.....Going to get my 'to-do' list for J.C. put together before I go to bed. Most things are coming together well. I was worried about the Site Security (guarding the side roads against 'ghosting'), but we're finally starting to get our arms around that one. Only big worry left is handicapped parking. I was hoping for volunteers to shuttle people from the Mill Lot to the hill top, but no takers. Renting a van is very pricey and I can't hit the budget that hard. I'm going to have to send out a note to the lists so that people are prepared to walk (or grab rides from friends). I'm not looking forward to that e-mail, that's for sure.
.....Gotta go to be early tonight. Tomorrow is the big transition to Code 392. Going to hit the floor running as it looks like we have two or three big projects already waiting in the wings for estimates and plans. Ack! What timing, three days before J.C. :-) I gotta take a break for a while after this one, I gotta recover what is left of my sanity and nurture it for a while. :-)
.....See you all next weekend. Stop me and say hi if I should pass you and not say anything. :-)
.....Arontius / Aaron.
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house value
Date: 2006-07-10 04:36 am (UTC)Ours went from 150 K to 187 K...but it's the land that was the kicker. 47 K to 75 K in one year.
Ah, the joys of home ownership...
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Date: 2006-07-10 10:46 am (UTC)People are going to gripe about the parking no matter what we do. We could have a personal camp to parking lot limo service and they would gripe that the wait was too long or the seats too hard. If all they have to gripe about is the parking, we are doing great! Don't fret yourself into a heart attack.
Are you taking a real vacation this year?
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Date: 2006-07-10 07:07 pm (UTC)See you soon!!
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Date: 2006-07-10 10:10 pm (UTC)if a posse of say a half dozen to a dozen cheerful capable and intelligent adults wanted to volunteer for gate fri night, is that something that they just showed up for or do they need to sign up ahead of time?
I love my posse :) they are actually looking forward to sitting gate fri night and wanted me to find otu how we could make that happen for them ;)
Help?!
Date: 2006-07-11 01:11 am (UTC)We could DEFINITELY use help at gate on Friday. But would you also consider helping in another capacity? We have people stationed at the entrances to some of the side roads to the event to prevent ghosting and people from entering site from the wrong location. Mistress Ellen is running this aspect. Would your group consider do this for us? Please let me know. Either way is fine by me though. All the help we can get is greatly appreciated!
Arontius.
Re: Help?!
Date: 2006-07-11 07:54 am (UTC)Re: Help?!
Date: 2006-07-11 12:02 pm (UTC)THANK YOU!!!
Arontius.
Re: Help?!
Date: 2006-07-11 09:10 pm (UTC)the only tricky thing is figuring out when, ie by the time folks get there and setup etc.
it will likely be a four or five hour block around dinner till 10 or 11pm or so Fri night?
this block of volunteerism is brought to you by the Madrone Eque4strian Guild and friends :)
is that enough to be useful?
Re: Help?!
Date: 2006-07-12 01:35 am (UTC).....Arontius.
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Date: 2006-07-13 01:34 pm (UTC)Ours went up 70k! *faint* I'm really scared they are going to drive the guy with the cows and all the acreage next door away. I know he's got land in eastern wa...
And if he goes, so do I. Once they got frapping condos and a subdivision on that land, I'm moving. Hopefully to some place that doesn't think development is the be all and end all of a community.. (ok, so that would be.. Europe maybe?)