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It's Friday. Yeah!
Jul. 21st, 2006 11:46 am…..Greetings All,
…..The past few days have been wonderfully rejuvenating! Very little time was given to June Faire or July Coronation or even the SCA in general. I didn’t even go to Fight Practice on Wednesday night, which is highly unusual for me. I’ve enjoyed taking things easy, have especially enjoyed having the e-mail traffic come down from it’s 500-600 messages per day down to a more reasonable 150-200 per day. I can handle that a lot better. :-)
…..I met the hedge monster in battle last night. It threw a feint at me, it gave me a hedge trimmer with a bad battery. I called around and no one open had a new battery for me. I almost broke down and called Wal-Mart, but those oppressed workers and starving Guatemalan children producing the schlock they sell kept staring at me whenever I closed my eyes. :-)
…..But I still persevered! I pulled out my hand clippers and went to work. Got about three quarters of the way down the front before stopping for the evening. It looks incredibly bare and exposed, but once I had swept down the area and cleaned it up some it already looked a lot better than it did before. I hadn’t realized that the hedge had grown upwards of three feet out onto the street. No wonder Bridle View Place was starting to feel narrower than usual.
…..After coming in and cleaning off I sat down at the computer with my nightly four ounces of wine. I tried a new brand this time called ‘Talking Head’. Weird name but excellent wine! I liked it so much that I poured a second glass. Bad move! :-) I literally crawled into bed about an hour later still dressed for the day. I woke up at about 2AM with my glasses all mangled and all the lights and TV on in the house. My last conscious act was of IM’ing Brighid. I don’t even remember what I said. Hope that it wasn’t too bad. She has talked to me today, so it probably wasn’t. But wow, my absolute limit now is four ounces. Period! :-)
…..Going to do some Storage Unit Clean-out tonight, I think. Although with the 90+ degree temperatures, it’s not going to be any fun. Will have to see about getting it moved to Saturday morning or something.
…..Have one circlet order to do as soon as possible on Saturday. Also going to put together a couple of spoons. I have some of my patterns in a shape that will work well as a spoon handle. I’ve also shaped out a couple of spoons and stems from blank metal. I didn’t like the results of soldering the parts together, but I think that I’m going to try some copper or brass rivets. If I leave a little lip at each end of the design section and rivet them to the spoon shapes, I think that they’ll work well. Only thing I worry about is their use as eating utensils. They may impart a bad taste onto anything eaten from them. What I think that I’ll do is to coat them with Envirotex. These are going to look pretty cool and will make a nice addition to Ingasbo. Will also be something that I can give as largesse that might actually be well received. I found out as an afterthought that circlets do not make good largesse. :-)
…..Have to box up and mail the nominees from An Tir for the Blackfox Awards (for excellence in newsletter production). This year I asked the Reporting and Contingency Deputy, THL Angharad, to make the selections. She chose with a different set of personal criteria than I would have. I will be very curious to see how the Society Chronicler and her judging staff receive those selections. Angharad’s eye might be a lot better than mine, none of my nominees from last year were awarded anything. But in comparison I can see why. I tend to judge things on the effort put into them as opposed to the ‘quality’ or ‘look’ of the final product. But that is based on the fact that I have a little more personal connection with these Chroniclers. I should have been a lot more objective. I’m thinking that Angharad will be able to maintain that objectiveness more and come out with better results. I can already see that she came out with different results than I would have, so that bodes well for An Tir’s entries I think.
…..Have a couple of lines started for the next Sonnet. Writing a sonnet in response to someone is much more difficult than writing one with no forced purpose. You must keep your focus that much tighter. I’ve always been free-spirited with my sonnets. Whatever the muse suggested is what I used. But this is taking more time and effort. Hope the results are worth it. Will definitely have to get it done before the picnic of course, so that I can harass Laurellen incessantly. :-)
…..Looking forward to the picnic. It will be nice to sit and chat with friends with no real agenda and all day to do it. Maybe Merouda and Anne-Marie and Countess E. and the rest of my Live Journal friends could be persuaded to come over and enjoy the day with us? It’ll be fun….. :-)
…..Arontius / Aaron.
…..The past few days have been wonderfully rejuvenating! Very little time was given to June Faire or July Coronation or even the SCA in general. I didn’t even go to Fight Practice on Wednesday night, which is highly unusual for me. I’ve enjoyed taking things easy, have especially enjoyed having the e-mail traffic come down from it’s 500-600 messages per day down to a more reasonable 150-200 per day. I can handle that a lot better. :-)
…..I met the hedge monster in battle last night. It threw a feint at me, it gave me a hedge trimmer with a bad battery. I called around and no one open had a new battery for me. I almost broke down and called Wal-Mart, but those oppressed workers and starving Guatemalan children producing the schlock they sell kept staring at me whenever I closed my eyes. :-)
…..But I still persevered! I pulled out my hand clippers and went to work. Got about three quarters of the way down the front before stopping for the evening. It looks incredibly bare and exposed, but once I had swept down the area and cleaned it up some it already looked a lot better than it did before. I hadn’t realized that the hedge had grown upwards of three feet out onto the street. No wonder Bridle View Place was starting to feel narrower than usual.
…..After coming in and cleaning off I sat down at the computer with my nightly four ounces of wine. I tried a new brand this time called ‘Talking Head’. Weird name but excellent wine! I liked it so much that I poured a second glass. Bad move! :-) I literally crawled into bed about an hour later still dressed for the day. I woke up at about 2AM with my glasses all mangled and all the lights and TV on in the house. My last conscious act was of IM’ing Brighid. I don’t even remember what I said. Hope that it wasn’t too bad. She has talked to me today, so it probably wasn’t. But wow, my absolute limit now is four ounces. Period! :-)
…..Going to do some Storage Unit Clean-out tonight, I think. Although with the 90+ degree temperatures, it’s not going to be any fun. Will have to see about getting it moved to Saturday morning or something.
…..Have one circlet order to do as soon as possible on Saturday. Also going to put together a couple of spoons. I have some of my patterns in a shape that will work well as a spoon handle. I’ve also shaped out a couple of spoons and stems from blank metal. I didn’t like the results of soldering the parts together, but I think that I’m going to try some copper or brass rivets. If I leave a little lip at each end of the design section and rivet them to the spoon shapes, I think that they’ll work well. Only thing I worry about is their use as eating utensils. They may impart a bad taste onto anything eaten from them. What I think that I’ll do is to coat them with Envirotex. These are going to look pretty cool and will make a nice addition to Ingasbo. Will also be something that I can give as largesse that might actually be well received. I found out as an afterthought that circlets do not make good largesse. :-)
…..Have to box up and mail the nominees from An Tir for the Blackfox Awards (for excellence in newsletter production). This year I asked the Reporting and Contingency Deputy, THL Angharad, to make the selections. She chose with a different set of personal criteria than I would have. I will be very curious to see how the Society Chronicler and her judging staff receive those selections. Angharad’s eye might be a lot better than mine, none of my nominees from last year were awarded anything. But in comparison I can see why. I tend to judge things on the effort put into them as opposed to the ‘quality’ or ‘look’ of the final product. But that is based on the fact that I have a little more personal connection with these Chroniclers. I should have been a lot more objective. I’m thinking that Angharad will be able to maintain that objectiveness more and come out with better results. I can already see that she came out with different results than I would have, so that bodes well for An Tir’s entries I think.
…..Have a couple of lines started for the next Sonnet. Writing a sonnet in response to someone is much more difficult than writing one with no forced purpose. You must keep your focus that much tighter. I’ve always been free-spirited with my sonnets. Whatever the muse suggested is what I used. But this is taking more time and effort. Hope the results are worth it. Will definitely have to get it done before the picnic of course, so that I can harass Laurellen incessantly. :-)
…..Looking forward to the picnic. It will be nice to sit and chat with friends with no real agenda and all day to do it. Maybe Merouda and Anne-Marie and Countess E. and the rest of my Live Journal friends could be persuaded to come over and enjoy the day with us? It’ll be fun….. :-)
…..Arontius / Aaron.
