Jealousy, and Updating.

.....Sigh! I am totally jealous of Olympia. I heard on T.V. this morning that Trader Joes just expanded to open a new store in the Olympia area. Located at a former mega-electronics store just north of town. I guess that I'll have to write a few more letters electronically to try and convince Trader Joes that a store in the Silverdale area will be profitable. I guess we're still just a little too red-neck for the likes of Trader Joes. :-)

.....Tomorrow is Friday and I'm totally looking forward to the weekend. I suppose that I should be embarassed by the fact that I'm looking forward to doing very LITTLE this weekend. :-) But after a freakin' long week at work, doing only a LITTLE seems like magic really. :-)

.....I really want to get my gas cylinder on a band saw. Need to get an e-mail out to Bernie to see if he'll be home this weekend.

.....Also need to finish reviewing the contract for June Faire at Port Gamble and get it signed. Not so much as I think that I'm going to find anything wrong with it. It has been reviewed by people smarter than myself thankfully. But I need to finish translating it into something generic that we can use as a basis for the contract to use the An Tir - West War site. When I spoke with the Gold Beach Site Owner we spoke of using the Port Gamble contract as the 'go-by'. I should be able to get that out this weekend I'm thinking.

.....Would also like to tune up the hammered dulcimer this weekend as well. That will take some work as it has been sitting in its case for a couple of years now. It's a Dusty Strings dulcimer though, so I know it is a good quality and I shouldn't worry about it splitting on me, or anything stupid like that. But a hammered dulcimer takes a lot longer to tune up than, say, a harp. Especially for me, who confuses easily. :-) But the effort itself will be fun as I have been craving a little folk music lately. I'd love to be able to play a little at June Faire this year. We'll have to see.

.....Only a handful of weeks until NORWESCON. I'm getting excited about attending. TBT didn't get asked to be part of any panels this year, which is disappointing. But with so much buzz this year on the Steampunk craze, I'm excited to see the costuming this year. There should be a lot of Victorian influenced stuff, which has always been a favorite of mine.

.....If anyone else is planning on being at NORWESCON, let me know so that I can connect. It's always fun to meet up with other friends at the event.

.....Also need to start planning for May Crown and the freakin' long ass drive involved.

.....Lots to do and not enough time in which to do it. Sounds about normal. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.