Meanderings.

.....Huzzah! The July issue of The Crier is complete! Finished late last night and created all the required .pdf files. Going to hold out until tomorrow before I send it in, just in case His Majesty has a missive he would like submitted. This was my 22nd issue as Crier Editor, just (14) more issues to go until I step down. :-)

.....The good thing is that I can now concentrate on getting the house cleaned. It is still a disaster area from June Faire. Ugh! Piles of stuff everywhere, I haven't let it go to this extreme in a long time.

.....Had a very good July Coronation meeting yesterday. Resolved a lot of issues concerning placement of activities. I'm in a much happier frame of mind. Resolved the placement of road signs as well. Still working out the bugs of traffic control on site, but we've got some good ideas on it. The next meeting will be sometime over the week of July 17th, with the big 'public' meeting with the populace on July 24th. That almost seems anti-climatic as Team Haggis has over 45 people on it. Most of the bloody populace is already on the team in some sort of official capacity. :-)

.....Gotta write a sonnet too. I'm starting to feel spiritually constipated. Lots of thoughts running in my brain. It's not a big space either. So if I don't get my thoughts out on paper it is difficult to give thought to important things. :-)

.....Heard from Catelin Spenset yesterday. I miss having her around. She's still working for the Chamber of Commerce. She is a dynamic and very intelligent person and is working her way towards becoming a major force within the community. She really ought to give thought to running for public office. I think that she has the contacts, the presence and the wit to take it on. I don't think that I'm going to persuade her to come back into the SCA. She was severely scarred by it, scars that I don't think will ever go away.

.....But we were talking about an outing for our weird discussion group; Catelin, myself, Mary Fischer (Xian), DeDe (Elsbeth) and Baron Sir Richard. It's always a lively discussion and a lot of fun. Last time we got together we played the Middle Earth version of Risk, drank lots of Don Julio, then started a discussion on the merits of Pelicans having Proteges. Baron Sir Richard is of the mindset that Laurels and Knights have a historical precedent for 'apprentices' and 'squires' but since Pelicans are administrators, a 'protege' is un-necessary. Catelin and I vociferously argued against that. It was fun. And the viewpoints expressed after tequila are always unique.

.....Someone told me that they saw Maria (former Baroness Maria) at June Faire last weekend. I'm actually glad that I didn't. I'm still not sure how we even survived as a branch through those times. She did us some major damage that can still be seen today in how we react to certain things. Whenever we write official documents or react to crisis we seem to always do it with the mindset of '...putting protections in place in the event of another Maria coming into Dragon's Laire.' It's rather sad. Definitely a sign of aging. :-)

.....Still don't think of myself as an old timer in Dragon's Laire, but am rapidly turning into one whether I want it or not. :-)

.....The front yard looks like a jungle! My neighbors are starting to give me 'the look'. I'll have to see if I can schedule some time after work a couple of nights this week to tackle at the very least the lawn. Then the hedge. That I have to do before the county does it for me. If I wait for that it'll look like a hack job.

.....Well, off to get dressed and start cleaning.

.....Arontius / Aaron.