Hack! Hack! Cough! Cough!

.....Vacation, Day 3, was mainly spent coughing and blowing my nose. I seemed to have picked up that cold going around. I started feeling better towards the end of the day, but most of the day was spent with the feeling that I was trying to swim through the proverbial maple syrup.

.....And yet again, I succumbed to two hours of 'The West Wing' in the morning. But I consoled myself with working on The Baronial Directory with the laptop on the couch at the same time. I could really get used to the work-at-home thing, or telecommuting, in my bathrobe, all day long. :-) Living in a bathrobe is actually quite comfortable. :-)

.....Working with the laptop proved a little easier as well. I had to go back-and-forth to the desktop for information stored there. But the real lift-and-tote work I could get done on the laptop. And by 2PM, the revamped version of The Baronial Directory was complete. I printed out a copy, made corrections, and then printed out a final version that I can take to Kinko's for copies.

.....Sigh! My frustration with the desktop keeps growing. Instead of drooling for a Kindle I need to face reality and actually invest in a computer system. I need to hit up Talon for some help there. Stupid ancient computer! It's pretty bad when I consider my government computer, with the latest programs from 2003, as an ADVANCED system. Sigh!

.....I posted to the Baronial list thinking that a few people might want hard copy issues of the Directory and promptly received requests for almost twenty copies. By 8PM the number had grown to almost fourty. It kind of surprised me as I had thought for sure that everyone would want the electronic version. But more people think like me than I suspected. They like having that SOMETHING in their hands to hold. Something that can be scribbled upon with notes. Maybe the Barony is full of older people. :-)

.....I did not get a whole lot else done except cleaning up the computer room. I just didn't feel up to much else today. Will have to try and make up for that tomorrow, but am not going to force the issue.

.....On the queue for tomorrow:
* Clean Bathroom.
* June Faire Meeting with Ian, Elisabeth and Talia.
* Start discussion on updating the Baronial Customary.
* Update Notes and Database for the Western Regional Pelicans.
* Set Up Chronicler's Doomsday Report.
* Set Up End-Of-Year Seneschal's Report.
* Finish up potential September Crown bid information.
* Pull out hammered dulcimer and see what it would take to tune it.

.....I think that I need to interject a few more 'fun' things into the queue. It is a vacation after all.

.....Hmmm, it looks like heraldically a salmon is NOT a fish, it is a salmon. But I'm betting that it would still conflict with a fish in direct comparison.

.....Aaron / Arontius.

Heraldic Salmon?

.....The more I hear the name, the more I like it. The Sable Salmon, has a nice ring to it. :-)

.....The Salmon in SCA heraldry:

Aminah al-Zarqah
The following device associated with this name was registered in August of 2003 (via the West): Argent, a rose azure barbed and seeded proper and on a chief azure a salmon naiant embowed argent.

Eoghan Ó Domhnaill
The following device associated with this name was registered in February of 2007 (via Calontir): Argent, two salmon haurient respectant vert and a bordure azure.

Horsa the Lost
The following device associated with this name was registered in November of 1991 (via the East): Azure, two salmon hauriant embowed addorsed argent and in chief a plate.

Koppel fun Baurieux
The following device associated with this name was registered in December of 1981 (via Meridies): Barry wavy argent and azure, on a pile wavy gules a salmon naiant and an osprey passant close argent.

Anastasiya Mikhailovna Mysheva
The following device associated with this name was registered in November of 1991 (via the West): Bendy sinister wavy argent and azure, six salmon hauriant purpure.

Marina Jensdatter
The following device associated with this name was registered in June of 1996 (via Caid):
Gules, a salmon embowed within a bordure Or.

Robbin Greybeard
The following device associated with this name was registered in April of 1982 (via An Tir):
Or, a Great Cormorant volant bendwise sinister proper and on a base azure three salmon naiant argent. [Phalacrocorax carbo]

Isabelle de Lyon
The following device associated with this name was registered in April of 2003 (via the East):
Per chevron azure and gules, two salmon haurient embowed respectant argent and a fleur-de-lys Or.

Andrew MacRobb
The following badge associated with this name was registered in November of 1982 (via the East): Per chevron purpure and Or, in chief a salmon embowed Or.

Suzanne de l'Ouest
The following device associated with this name was registered in May of 1994 (via the East):
Per fess azure and vert, a dance and in chief a salmon naiant argent.

Frozen Mountain, Shire of
The following device associated with this name was registered in November of 1991 (via An Tir): Per fess azure and vert, upon a dance argent a salmon naiant gules, finned sable, and in base a laurel wreath Or.

Loch Soilleir, Barony of
The following badge associated with this name was registered in April of 1992 (via Ansteorra):
Per fess wavy argent and vert, an otter embowed vert and a salmon embowed contourny and inverted argent. for the Order of the Otter of Loch Soilleir

Earc Mac Fíthil
The following device associated with this name was registered in January of 2003 (via An Tir):
Sable, a trillium inverted Or between four salmon naiant in annulo argent.

Freodhoric Jørgenssen Sjøaurebørg
The following device associated with this name was registered in July of 1985 (via Atenveldt):
Sable, on a billet engrailed Or, a salmon haurient gules.

Golden Rivers, Province of
The following badge associated with this name was registered in August of 1979:
Vert, a salmon naiant bendwise sinister Or. for the Order of the Golden Salmon

Petrus filius Silvein
The following device associated with this name was registered in October of 2002 (via the East): Vert, two salmon hauriant embowed addorsed and a bordure Or.

.....Three already in An Tir, and one relatively famous An Tir Scribe (The Wise and Wonderful Suzanne!).

.....Sable Salmon!

.....Aaron / Arontius.