It's Thursday! :-)
Aug. 23rd, 2012 04:08 pm.....When we went out to Barnes and Nobels the other day on the Rhys Monster's birthday, we ran across a book series in the Young Adult section entitled, 'Vampirates'. With various titles like 'Demons of the Ocean', 'Tide of Terror', 'Blood Captain', 'Black Heart', 'Empire of Night' and 'Immortal War'. After I picked myself off of the floor from laughing so hard, I thought that this would make the perfect gift for Cedric and Brighid. With her love of pirates and his love of vampires, this could be something they could read together! :-)
.....I don't think I could get into the series. Just isn't my speed. But I am looking for something new. Everything on my bookshelf currently seems over-read, which it probably is. All of my favorite authors (still alive) aren't putting out anything new for a while. Barbara Hambly keeps teasing me with her latest re-writes and revisions on the manuscript she is working. Although it isn't like I have a whole lot of time to open a book. But twenty or thirty minutes before I drop off at night a little reading does the trick to get me in a place that really isn't worried about the SCA or Work.
.....The water tank drop last night took a little longer than I wanted. But we had plenty of help and the tank, as usual, surprised me with how light weight it is. It only takes a person or two to tip it on to its side. A couple of people by themselves can easily slide it around, and even pick it up.
.....It's been at Oliver's now for like five years. We paid him a rental fee once. We probably should have paid him again, but it never seemed to be remembered at the right time. But I know I am grateful it had a home. It'll have a new home after September Crown at the Poulsbo PUD.
.....We sat it on Barnet's trailer and strapped it down for the drive to site. It was quite the sight traveling down the road. :-) With a small convoy of cars. Took about thirty minutes to get it to site and only about fifteen minutes to get pushed off and set into place. I was not incredibly worried about where exactly as it'll have to be moved again anyway when the Marketplace is laid out next week. My only real worry is a couple of kids showing up while we're not there and pushing it down the hillside.
.....Ian did a quick sanitization of the tank. Although when we opened up the sealed tank, it was really clean inside. No presence of anything except the black plastic walls. Next Thursday, we'll spray it down, get it put into position (on a couple of sheets of plywood) and fill it up for the Equestrians.
.....On our way off of site, we stopped by and watched Ralg for a couple of minutes. he was cleaning brush and debris in the RV area to open up some space for more RV traffic. He had his chain saw out and branches were flying. :-)
.....Things are coming together for their final placement next week for September Crown.
.....The longer range weather reports for next week are actually looking rather promising. There is a day, or two, in the mix where there is a chance of showers. But at the most the chance looks to be 30%. That's actually not a bad thing as a couple of showers would help settle the pockets of dust on site somewhat. The actual set-up day, Friday, is still looking clear and in the upper 60's or lower 70's (depending on whose forecast you happen to be reading). Almost perfect set-up weather.
.....Have to remember to send out a call for volunteers to load up the U-Haul next Wednesday. I may wait until the weekend to do that. It helps to have a half dozen bodies or so to slug materials about. Without the Gold Key bins we might get away from the Storage Units without a crap ton load. :-) I've been resisting hard Adena's push to pull out most, if not all, of the Gold Key. :-)
.....We will have curious members of the Modern Public show up on site over the weekend, I'm sure. I need to remember to ask Albrecht (whose new name escapes me at the moment :-)) if he can pack some pamphlets for handing out as needed. I'm not intending to bring a bunch of extra garb to site to put on these people, so they might stick out. One of the nice things about this site is the ability to stand at the gate and get a great overhead view of most of the event. My only regret being that I wish we could see the Archery and Equestrian fields from gate.
.....Only one more day of work this week! Than my free weekend! Our only free weekend in August. I'm so very much looking forward to sleeping in for a while each morning. Then a leisurely latte at the local Starbucks. We'll have to get to work later in the morning, with an epically long to-do list, but there will be a nice start to the day. A latte date with TBT. Always worth any effort necessary to get there. :-)
.....Mateusz is printing me out a map of site as well that I have to remember to pick up from him sometime on Saturday. This is my reminder. I'm supposed to call him when we're out and about. I have to pick up Lobelia at some point. But he's coming down to Silverdale sometime on Saturday, so maybe we can meet in the middle somewhere.
.....Now I'm running out of time. Gotta get across town to the Pelican Teleconference. I'm crossing my fingers that it'll work for us.
.....Aaron / Arontius.
.....I don't think I could get into the series. Just isn't my speed. But I am looking for something new. Everything on my bookshelf currently seems over-read, which it probably is. All of my favorite authors (still alive) aren't putting out anything new for a while. Barbara Hambly keeps teasing me with her latest re-writes and revisions on the manuscript she is working. Although it isn't like I have a whole lot of time to open a book. But twenty or thirty minutes before I drop off at night a little reading does the trick to get me in a place that really isn't worried about the SCA or Work.
.....The water tank drop last night took a little longer than I wanted. But we had plenty of help and the tank, as usual, surprised me with how light weight it is. It only takes a person or two to tip it on to its side. A couple of people by themselves can easily slide it around, and even pick it up.
.....It's been at Oliver's now for like five years. We paid him a rental fee once. We probably should have paid him again, but it never seemed to be remembered at the right time. But I know I am grateful it had a home. It'll have a new home after September Crown at the Poulsbo PUD.
.....We sat it on Barnet's trailer and strapped it down for the drive to site. It was quite the sight traveling down the road. :-) With a small convoy of cars. Took about thirty minutes to get it to site and only about fifteen minutes to get pushed off and set into place. I was not incredibly worried about where exactly as it'll have to be moved again anyway when the Marketplace is laid out next week. My only real worry is a couple of kids showing up while we're not there and pushing it down the hillside.
.....Ian did a quick sanitization of the tank. Although when we opened up the sealed tank, it was really clean inside. No presence of anything except the black plastic walls. Next Thursday, we'll spray it down, get it put into position (on a couple of sheets of plywood) and fill it up for the Equestrians.
.....On our way off of site, we stopped by and watched Ralg for a couple of minutes. he was cleaning brush and debris in the RV area to open up some space for more RV traffic. He had his chain saw out and branches were flying. :-)
.....Things are coming together for their final placement next week for September Crown.
.....The longer range weather reports for next week are actually looking rather promising. There is a day, or two, in the mix where there is a chance of showers. But at the most the chance looks to be 30%. That's actually not a bad thing as a couple of showers would help settle the pockets of dust on site somewhat. The actual set-up day, Friday, is still looking clear and in the upper 60's or lower 70's (depending on whose forecast you happen to be reading). Almost perfect set-up weather.
.....Have to remember to send out a call for volunteers to load up the U-Haul next Wednesday. I may wait until the weekend to do that. It helps to have a half dozen bodies or so to slug materials about. Without the Gold Key bins we might get away from the Storage Units without a crap ton load. :-) I've been resisting hard Adena's push to pull out most, if not all, of the Gold Key. :-)
.....We will have curious members of the Modern Public show up on site over the weekend, I'm sure. I need to remember to ask Albrecht (whose new name escapes me at the moment :-)) if he can pack some pamphlets for handing out as needed. I'm not intending to bring a bunch of extra garb to site to put on these people, so they might stick out. One of the nice things about this site is the ability to stand at the gate and get a great overhead view of most of the event. My only regret being that I wish we could see the Archery and Equestrian fields from gate.
.....Only one more day of work this week! Than my free weekend! Our only free weekend in August. I'm so very much looking forward to sleeping in for a while each morning. Then a leisurely latte at the local Starbucks. We'll have to get to work later in the morning, with an epically long to-do list, but there will be a nice start to the day. A latte date with TBT. Always worth any effort necessary to get there. :-)
.....Mateusz is printing me out a map of site as well that I have to remember to pick up from him sometime on Saturday. This is my reminder. I'm supposed to call him when we're out and about. I have to pick up Lobelia at some point. But he's coming down to Silverdale sometime on Saturday, so maybe we can meet in the middle somewhere.
.....Now I'm running out of time. Gotta get across town to the Pelican Teleconference. I'm crossing my fingers that it'll work for us.
.....Aaron / Arontius.