arontius | Surfacing For A Moment. (Reply)

.....Greetings All,

.....It's a Friday morning at work, I'm sitting here with my cup of tea (with Sugar Free Egg Nog flavoring this morning, interesting combination with Green Tea :-)) and getting ready for the regular Friday crisis du jour. Although, even though I hesitate to say it too loudly, I think that things might just be leveling out here at work. I am very hopeful on that because I could use a few months of being able to really concentrate on things at home. :-)

.....The May issue of The Crier went out the door this week. UMD in Idaho called me yesterday and said that the first batch of First Class Mailings should hit their Post Office today. We'll start seeing them in mailboxes by mid-week next week. Whooo Hooo! Only FIVE more issue left. FIVE!!!! June, July, August, September, and October (with Angharad). Oh! My! God! I can count them all on one hand now. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! :-)

.....Finally got my hands around the new financial reporting requirements for The Crier. Society changed all the reporting rules on yes, but no one remembered to tell me this fact or give me the new forms until March, AFTER I had done everything on the OLD forms. I was a little irritated at that and kind of drug my feet. Master Pyotr has been getting rather anxious on getting those finished, so I finally sat down and plugged in all the numbers. Master Pyotr is reviewing them right now.

.....This weekend will be all about June Faire. My 'to-do' list is long and I'm behind on it. If I could have looked into my crystal ball last September and seen everything on my plate for this year I would have been much more forceful in saying 'NO' to the Chairman position. But I have it now and will do my best. It will not be my best production, but I am determined not to fail. Go insane maybe... :-)

.....I can feel the initial signs of burn out and so have to start being extra careful. I enjoy the SCA too much to burn out on it. This is where all my family and good friends reside. I would miss them all too much if I were to have to go away for a while.

.....I will not be able to spend the weekend with the Beloved Tamm and that bumms me out big time. Whine! Whine! Whine! I can't wait until we get her moved over here. This long distance relationship stuff sucks big time.

.....One more item added to the summer schedule. Looks like I'll have to move my mother out of her duplex at the end of July. Sigh! The landlord is getting ready to retire from her regular job and wants to move family members into Mom's side of the duplex. I suppose that I should be grateful that she agreed to wait until late July. But still, what fantastic timing. Those of you with trucks and strong backs should make themselves scarce towards the end of July or else you'll see me on your doorstep with begging eyes. :-) But we're going to be packing and moving stuff into my garage for the next couple of months, so the end move should not be too bad. Mom does not have a lot of heavy things. I think that finding a new apartment is going to be the hardest part of this whole thing.

.....O.K. it is a Friday morning whine-fest for sure, but Amazon STILL has yet to deliver The Children of Hurin to my doorstep. I'm seriously peeved!

.....Enough with the whining already! :-) Hopefully it is out of my system now. Hope that everyone has a good weekend. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.