'T' Minus Seventeen Hours.

.....I think I'm ready. The day garb is all packed. The step-up garb is all packed. The signs are in the van. Four cases of water are in the van. TBT has the banners, the bling, the scrolls and all the little pieces needed.

.....I have the Pelican Agenda printed out and packed away. I even have some things to do if I need to have something to keep my hands occupied. :-) Don Julio is packed as well. :-)

.....Tomorrow is actually going to be pretty light though on the meeting schedule. The usual peerage meetings, and then a Financial Committee Meeting, and not much else before the Baronial Succession at 6:30PM. Should give plenty of time to relax and just talk to people. What a concept. :-)

.....Madrun printed out the Ceremony into nice little pamphlets that are easy to read and follow. That was a really gesture on her part. And she did a really nice job with it. The pamphlet makes a rather nice souvenir. :-) Although I've already highlighted places and made mark-ups in it. :-)

.....Tomorrow morning I was thinking I'd get up a little early and put some of the important lines on note cards to have as reference.

.....Then its the pack up of the cars and off to site. I'm sure there is something I'm forgetting, but I can't think of what it could be. The nice thing about the site being just a couple of miles away is that we can always run home in a pinch and pick up forgotten items.

.....I'm a little nervous, but not overwhelmingly so. Part of me wishes I had gone out this evening and either gone dancing in Silverdale with Talon and Company, or gone up to Poulsbo to say 'Hi' to the Canadian contingent. But I was more in a mood to relax and take things slow. Tomorrow will find more than enough time to say 'Hi' to everyone. :-)

.....Actually, it made me wish that others could be there tomorrow who will be missed. Catelin Spenser should have been there to watch us walk down the hall. Serena Eame should have been sitting in the first row watching as the Coronets are placed on our heads. I hope they are watching from wherever they are now.

.....I really wish Inga Calle could be there to watch. She was the very first person who contemplated throwing her hat into the ring with me as Baronial Candidates many years ago. She's in Arizona right now. Maybe we should have thought of video taping the Ceremony? I was just thinking back to my Twelfth Night when we actually talked for a short time of having the Twelfth Night Coronation Courts and Ceremonies recorded on closed circuit television and broadcast to the hotel rooms at the Shilo. :-) Hmmm, maybe it is time to do another Twelfth Night so we can try out the idea. :-)

.....A couple of others e-mailed to say they couldn't be present tomorrow for various reasons. Sir Richard is in the middle of moving to Chehalis. I really wish he could have made it. But I don't think we'll be lonely tomorrow. It still seems like half the Knowne World is coming tomorrow to say their farewells to Their Excellencies Cedric and Brighid.

.....I should go ahead and go to bed. Tomorrow will be a rather long day. Hope that Their Excellencies actually go to bed sometime before dawn. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.