Miscellaneous Thoughts.

[arontius]

.....Whoo! Hooo! I stepped on the scale this morning and it read to me 295 pounds. That will sound like a lot to all of you, but to me, I haven't weighed below 300 in over ten years. I love it! The doctor thinks that I'll eventually level out at about 225 or so, but I want to get down to about 200.

.....But it is time to fulfill one promise to myself and others. Time for some new clothes. I have always said that I was holding out until I was less than 300 and that time has come. Time for the baggy stuff to go away. :-)

.....Started the Tolkien Word Challenge with Marquessa Laurellen last night. I can already tell, despite all the trash talk on the Baronial list, that she is going to be a tough competitor. :-) My first word in her direction, 'mathom,' was easily mastered by her. But she through an easy one back in my direction as well, 'Michel Delving,' meaning basically 'Great Excavations'. I can think of some words though that I'm holding back in reserve that will be TOUGH, especially some of the stuff out of The Silmarillion. If we expand to some of his other works, this could get difficult. His writings on Sir Gawain have some doosies in them. :-)

.....This weekend is going to be busy. Got meetings on both Saturday and Sunday to go over infrastructure on site for July Coronation. Somehow I also have to squeeze out the July issue of The Crier. I've got all the basics all ready to come together, but am still a little nervous as I'm still missing some major reports from a few people.

.....July Coronation is coming together. I despaired a little bit after June Faire, not really sure if I had what it took to pull it off. But I'm feeling more and more confident. It will not be for lack of thought and action if it doesn't come together. I'm also determined that the town be 100% confident in our ability to pull this off with as little impact as possible to the residents. There were a few times during June Faire when the town POCs expressed more than a little frustration at what was happening, but you know, you can't really control the actions of individuals who come to June Faire. You can only set things up to make it more difficult for them to be stupid. I think we just didn't anticipate how stupid some people can be. :-)

.....Sigh. Work is still in transition. Came back on Tuesday after a week off. Half expected to be transferred to another code. Didn't happen though. They are going to drag out this transformation as long as possible. I'm going to miss being in this code, but I'm going to breathe a sigh of relief when I no longer have to do the work of three or four people on a regular basis. Just think, an eight hour day instead of a ten or twelve?! Wow! What a concept! :-)

.....Was hearing rumors of a RIF sometime in a year or so. The politics that kept Portsmouth Naval Shipyard open this last year REALLY screwed the rest of us over in funding. The Navy was counting on Portsmouth to close and was already in the midst of transferring work out of the area. There are some powerful congressmen in that area who made sure that Portsmouth was protected. I will not lose my job, but I can see some of the new hires possibly losing theirs, or at the very least being furloughed for a certain amount of time. We'll see what happens.

.....Been giving more and more thought to a new Principality. I think that we can do it over here on the West side of the Sound. We always seem to be thought of as the 'hick' village of the Western Region, but I think that if we got our collective heads in order, we could pull something off. I think that we would have to take in Glymm Mere and Stromgard, and maybe even Blatha An Oir (along with Druim Doineann, which was always in the plans). But a Principality would be a lot of fun. I'm going to hold off on doing anything with this though until I step down as Kingdom Chronicler. :-)

.....The position of Editor for the Complete Anachronist is open, as well as President of the SCA. Hmmmmm, evil thoughts... :-)

Arontius.