arontius | Another Fast Weekend. (Reply)

.....It's about bedtime and I can't believe the weekend is already done. It went by so fast! :-)

.....Saturday was a pretty good day at the Arts and Sciences Day Camp. I woke up with the beginnings of a migraine. I could feel the nausea coming on and the sparkly tunnel vision was already in full swing. So I dowsed it thoroughly in Tylenol and caffeine and hoped for the best. I'd been pretty good with avoiding food triggers, so it was most likely weather related. They are sometimes easier to control, which seemed to be the case with this one. It never did go away completely, but it stayed relatively mellow. I was able to navigate the day relatively well.

.....Arrived on site at 8:30, Dragon's Laire time. :-) Set out street signs and opened up the Hall. Madrun arrived shortly after we did. At 9AM we were thinking maybe that the Day would be lightly attended, but that feeling went away in a hurry. We had a very full Hall well before Noon.

.....I never did feel fully functional, so I never really picked up anything to really do. I spent most of the day in conversation with a lot of people who filtered through site. Although I still ended up missing a few. I had really wanted to spend at least a little time with

aelianora and catch up on a few things and see what she was thinking about these days. But I never did get the chance. Need to send her an e-mail to make she knows that was not on purpose! :-)

.....Did spend some time in the morning in conversation with Renart, talking about the Kingdom Feast. The possibilities for where it could go are boundless! He has a lot of decisions to make and a vision to really nail down. He also has a very talented Team of people, all full of good ideas of their own. Rather exciting, to be honest.

.....Alys showed up later with her sketches of the Team Haggis III logo. She had three of them. One of them was rather disturbing, a winged sheep on a platter with an apple in its mouth. The second was pretty good, the An Tir Crown with the winged sheep logo on the front. But the third design was the winning design, a can of winged haggis. :-) She has just a couple of things to clean up on it and then she'll send me the .pdf so we can get started on T-Shirts. :-)

.....After lunch, TBT led the charter meeting for the Baronial 'Kingdom Arts & Sciences and Bardic Championship Single Entry Support Group'. She came up with the good idea on the return home from the last KAS / KBC. As a support group we could encourage a larger number of us as we process a single entry for next year's competition. With a support group, including monthly meetings and deadlines, it would be easier to keep to a schedule. There would be people to help with questions and presentation. The whole concept made so much sense I was surprised that I'd never heard of something similar before.

.....There were maybe fifteen or eighteen at the gathering. Plus I know there were a handful of others who couldn't be there that day. So if even half the group makes it to KAS / KBC next year, that's a good ten to twelve entries. Maybe Dragon's Laire could actually have a KAS / KBC Champion for a third year in a row. That would be rather cool. :-)

.....The crowds started shrinking around 3PM and I was starting to get tired by then. The only thing I actually managed to do was a couple of rows of knitting on my introductory knitting project. I also pondered what kind of embroidery I was going to do on a wool bag that Madrun put together for me. It was one of the bag designs that was just completed for Kingdom Largesse to be given at Estrella and has an orange stag on it. I had thought of one of the bags for the last round of largesse, but considering that it took me almost four years to do one of the little bags that TBT put together for Baronial Largesse when she first moved over here, it was probably a good thing I waited for this one. :-)

.....At the end of the day we were supposed to go to Bernie and Tsuruko's house for a birthday gathering in celebration of Bernie's birthday. But the head was still throbbing a little and I was toasted from a long day surrounded by people. So I called Bernie and begged forgiveness. Bernie was gracious, especially after I promised him and Tsuruko a drink at NORWESCON next weekend. :-)

.....NORWESCON in three days! The excitement is definitely starting to hit. :-) Heather received a bath today in preparation. She is also gassed up and about ready to go. Just need to clear out the stuff in the back and she'll be ready for pack up on Wednesday.

.....Made it over to Richard's to drop off the gate funds from the Day Camp and chatted with Rich and Gwen for a little while. Then worked on the chores for the week. Laundry is done. Stuff for work is all set up for tomorrow. I even managed to get a preliminary timeline complete for the Serjeantry Trials this summer and sent it out to everyone. The April Baronial Letter is in progress. So I made some progress today. Just not nearly as much as I would have liked.

.....Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Gene Wilder as the TRUE Willy Wonka, is on the Tele now. It's still a favorite. Although if I don't get to sleep soon, Monday is not going to be much fun at all.

.....Aaron / Arontius.