Mar. 15th, 2007

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.....Woo! Hoo! The April issue of The Crier was uploaded to the Idaho Falls FTP: Site last night. Mailing Labels were e-mailed shortly after. One more issue has left the building! Only SIX (6) issues (OR LESS) left to go (May, June, July, August, September and October (in collaboration with Angharad)).

.....You can tell that Spring is on the doorstep, even if you don't go outside for days at a time. The amount of new event copy goes up with the advent of Spring. :-) I had to break down and increase to a 40-page format again. It is still stuffed full, with some missives being moved to the May queue for inclusion there.

.....Some of the larger events are really starting to get aggressive on their advertising. Estrella sent literally dozens of e-mails requesting that information be placed in the Kingdom newsletter. I'm starting to see a lot of traffic on Gulf Wars and Pennsic as well. Not that I'm complaining at all. Although I am missing the days of just a few years ago when these events would send stuff my way with a polite note asking if I would consider placing their advertising in The Crier AND offering to PAY for the advertising. Now I am part of mass mailings where I have the PRIVILEGE of being offered to share in the advertising for some of these events. :-)

.....I'm feeling old for sure when I start complaining about missing simple politeness. :-)

.....Work is starting to get very interesting. It's starting to look as if the Shipyard might be reducing its upcoming submarine workload in favor (or by direction) of bulking up for Carrier work. We're sending mass amounts of people to Norfolk, San Diego and Japan in the next few years to work on Aircraft Carrier Projects. Portsmouth and Pearl Harbor are being bulked up to take over the remaining submarine work in San Diego and in Pearl Harbor. Being primarily a submarine planner, it'll be interesting to see how things land in the next few years.

.....Several months back I was asked if I wanted to go to Japan to work on a Carrier Project Team. I turned it down then and the subsequent offers since then. But someday it might be interesting to go over there at least for a while.

.....Watching all these people on LJ put out some stunning artwork made me start jonesing for something artistic to do (although I'll be the FIRST to admit that I'm NOT an artist, just as Brighid Ross :-)). But I've pulled out my calligraphy and found myself enjoying the practice. Also pulled out my bobbin lace roller and found myself enjoying that as well. Very relaxing to concentrate at trying to do something well. Will have to try and make some more time to do things like that. I owe Sir Richard some Sonnet lines, gotta do that SOONEST. :-)

.....Which is difficult when you are trying to REMOVE about half of the stuff that you own inside your house! :-) Am making a little headway in the basement. It looks like a disaster area at the moment, but items are going into the garbage can, recycle bin and Goodwill. A van load of STUFF goes with me to Seattle on Friday when I visit the Beloved Laurellen. Larger furniture items that we can drop off at the Goodwill there.

.....Phone is ringing, have to run. Hope everyone has a good day, Friday and weekend. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.

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