Arontius of Bygelswade

.....It's just about time to head off to the August Business Meeting at the VFW Hall. I'm dragging my feet a little as I'd rather stay at home and catch up on chores that have been accumulating. Or maybe I'm just a little bit peopled out at the moment. Or maybe it is because TBT is headed out for the first meeting of the new Laurel Regional Meeting in Tacoma. I'll be by myself at the Business Meeting. It may actually be a noticeably smaller Business Meeting with all the Laurel in absentia.

.....If nothing else I have to go and get a couple of signatures from Ralg to finish off a few An Tir / West War checks. Envelopes are made out, checks and Request Forms are complete. Once Ralg signs them off they will go into the mail tonight. Which means that I will be able to finalize the reports and journal for An Tir / West War this weekend and put it away for the next year and a half or so. Nothing came in for printing from Baron Finn, so I'm going to call that one a wash for the moment. We may end up with a little bit of refund from the Biffy and / or Trash People. But that is pretty standard. I'll also get a good handle on exactly how much profit the event made though and it'll be on the agenda at September Crown to discuss how much of it to move over to the Kingdom Coffers.

.....I need to start pestering Etiennette for the agenda for the September Crown Financial Committee Meeting. I'm not entirely sure if it'll be myself or her running the show. Etiennette has the knowledge base at the moment and knows what is happening with the accounts and the Kingdom. She is also coordinating the completion of the second quarter branch reports. So she may end up chairing the meeting whether she likes it or not. :-) I should probably warn her, I suppose.

.....After a couple of weeks of relative peace, issues started popping up this week in rapid succession. A number of check requisitions to be processed were near the top of the list. Review of the updated Kingdom Financial Policy is gaining priority rapidly. However, the biggest surprise dropped in from Society. In preparation for PayPal, Society is pushing at a clean-up of the accounts across all the Kingdoms accounts. This includes clearing out all the NMS back-log. Every Kingdom has a listing of events Society feels should have paid NMS, but for some reason did not. An Tir has its own list. Elonda has been working diligently to whittle our list down to nothing. To be honest, I've been incredibly impressed with her diligence and tenacity at dealing with the branches who owe forms, funds, or both. She's managed to do it all professionally, and with no snarkiness or condescending attitude at all.

.....The biggest test of this came in the form of an e-mail from the Society Treasurer. Using extreme 'Corporate Speak' with a great deal of bombastic language, a note arrived in my e-mail describing how the Kingdom was in arrears and needed to 'take action and not sit on a dire situation'. This was in regards to the NMS funds that the Society Offices feel haven't been paid by An Tir to them that should have been. The implications ran deep to the affect that An Tir was deliberately avoiding payment of something owed to Corporate and that we had until early October to make good 'or else'.

.....I understand completely that when dealing with legalities and money we want to get away from the 'club' and treat the administrivia as a 'Business'. You have to do that in today's Corporate and litigious environment. I'm not opposed to that at all. It's when you end up treating your own membership like a tenant you feel is trying to cheat you out of a payment that I object. We're all here for the same thing, to support the concept of the SCA. Treat me professionally and like an adult. Don't treat me like a bad debt. You don't even know me or know all the details. Sigh.

.....After a little back-and-forth, and some excellent communication from Elonda, the SCA Treasurer stepped back a little from the Corporate mindset and started treating us a little better. The tension dropped rapidly after that and we're getting things answered and solved quickly. Right now we're trying to come to consensus as to what exactly defines NMS in terms of an event, which will determine just what events in An Tir owe funds to Corporate. I suspect that An Tir will end up owing money to the Corporate Entity. Exactly how much we shall see.

.....My 'to-do' list for the Exchequer's Office is growing rapidly! It is its own list already as a matter of fact. I need to get hopping to get a group of Deputies on board and working. We have a possible / probable replacement for Elonda when she starts working the Corporate Job full-time. Etiennette is working to get her Transfers Deputy on board and working. I'm hoping to get Deputies lined up to support Bank Accounts (monitoring and set-up); Reporting; and Federal I.D. Number Verification (in preparation for the setup of State Subsidiaries). I'd also like to get a Training Deputy set-up on rolling, but still hoping I can sit down and persuade Etiennette to take on that particular tasking.

.....As soon as I'm starting to feel comfortable in my position, the push and focus will be to put together a comprehensive training program and get it implemented. I would like the branch exchequers to start building internal networks to help each other locally to review their own records and reporting and help each other learn and grow. There is too much learning by trial-and-error. Too much isolation as well. I would very much like the exchequerate to network much more than they are. It is a goal of mine.

.....Another surprise has been the Kingdom Records themselves. I found out recently that starting with Elonda, the Kingdom Financial Records had to be re-built almost from scratch. She could not get her predecessor to give them up. I'm hearing various stories as to why that is. The most widely used one being that he wanted to get them organized before turning them over. But apparently when Etiennette tried to get to these files to look for information in regards to a couple of past issues, she could not actually get to the files themselves and had to go to other sources to get her information. This will become a priority on my list of things to get done. These files are located in Tacoma. Not that far away. I need to start sending out the e-mails and phone calls and see if I can convince him to let me have the files sooner rather than later. Although, enough time has now passed to where these files may not be of much use.

.....Need to get an Exchequer's Meeting on the docket for September Crown. Which means I should probably check in with Julia and make sure I have use of the Seneschale's pavilion during the time frame I want on Saturday of the weekend. The agenda is already being built, with NMS and reporting being at the top of that list. Networking and communications following closely behind.

.....His Excellency let me know on Tuesday that I was one of the people on the June Faire Advisory Panel. Since then I've learned that Madrun and Diomedes are also members. That's three of us. We'll probably learn who the other six are at the Business Meeting tonight. Hopefully we'll learn also when we will meet and the exact purpose of the Panel. Does His Excellency want something specific for June Faire? Or is this first year going to be a concentration of finding out what will work best for the Barony and then working towards some tenable compromise. I have no idea really what to expect. From that standpoint alone I find the concept to be interesting. The clock is ticking though. A June Faire Board is generally put together by September and starts on the tasking list by November. Whatever plan we implement has to move along fairly quickly. I'm hoping that we're not going to be expected to run June Faire 2016? I would have to bow out at that point. But with nine people on the panel I don't think that is the direction we're headed.

.....Gwen posted a note to a group of us speaking to the Artisans Holiday Craft Faire she wants to do again this year. She wants to hit the SCA hard with advertising, which is why she thinks my circlets might be a draw for sales. I'm not so sure, but I thought it would be interesting to be part of the group. So I told Gwen that I was 'in' and would pay whatever share was needed from me for space rental and advertising costs.

.....I have a number of raw designs in the garage and could probably put together twenty or thirty for a sale at the VFW Hall, depending upon which date is agreed upon. It was sounding like October, but TBT and I kept thinking it was a November sale. Like the weekend after Thanksgiving. I would prefer that weekend actually as it would give me a little more time to put together some merchandise. I'll have to dig up the display stand and all the other accoutrements that go along with circlet sales. I haven't actually done a booth in a number of years, but I never did get rid of the gear. Just have to find it all and pull it together.

.....I was putting together a list of everything I would need to support a booth and was reminded of the stash of pendants I have in storage as well. At least 60 - 80 pendants with Ingasbo designs on them. After the years they've been in storage I'm sure they'll need some polishing and clean-up. But other than that they could be ready to go fairly quickly. I think the only problem at that point is what to charge for them. Which has always been a problem with Ingasbo 'stuff'. A lot of hours go into making a circlet or etched design. More than most are willing to pay, especially in a world where China can mass produce this stuff for pennies on the item. I have a suspicion that people are not going to want to pay for circlets and pendants that pay me even minimum wage! But I suppose that I do not need the funds to make a living, so I do not want to give this stuff away either. And, I suppose I could be surprised. We may get all set up and find out that people really will pay decent prices.

.....The water was removed from the nettle bath the other day and the nettle stalks are now drying. Countess Elisabeth took a look at them and thought them not worth the effort. She thinks that I waited too long to pull the stalks last year and am ending up with more woody debris rather than workable fiber. Which means that when these stalks finish drying out and I take a hammer to them I'll end up with a pile of dust rather than some woody dust and a bundle of fiber. I'm not quite ready to give up though, so I'm going to let this stack of nettle stalks finish drying out and see what happens. Even if I end up with just a little bit of usable fiber it will have made the experimentation worth the effort we went through over the past year.

.....I'm also going to make plans to start nettle harvesting in June next year though. The Spring rush should be done, but the nettle will not have started flowering and going to seed yet. I think that is where my basic mistake originates. When I went out harvesting this last time, I should have concentrated on nettle that did not yet have flowers on it. It would have taken some more time, but I might have ended up with a higher quality crop. Hopefully, a 'lesson learned' for next year.

.....When the Recorder Guild went on temporary hiatus this last Spring, a small part of my mind thought it was a dead thing again until I had the time and energy to drive it forward. But I was surprised this last week when I was suddenly included on an e-mail chain from RedBow essentially organizing a Recorder Guild to play locally. It invited both SCA members and members from other local Early Music groups, and wasn't just limited to recorders. She actually gained some interest from a couple of people who play as part of the Early Music group in Seattle. They might play at SCA events, but were already talking about concerts in other venues and situations. Their music selection also went beyond the Renaissance and firmly into the Baroque, with some rather nice pieces as part of their regular repertoire.

.....I asked RedBow if she accidently put my name on the e-mail traffic and she said no and that she was hoping that once things had settled out a little bit for me that I might want to come and play with them. RedBow had heard about Mom and sent her condolences as well. The whole conversation, while a little strange coming from RedBow, was very pleasant and thoughtful on her part. I'm really digging their music selection as well. So I'm thinking that maybe I'll see about whether I can block out the time to attend their practices. I think it would be fun.

.....Just have to be careful about over-commitment. I can feel myself playing that game and would rather avoid it. So I need to practice being thoughtful with what I do with my time over the next year. Practice! Practice! Practice!

.....We'll see how it goes.

.....Aaron / Arontius.

.....It's the Summer Solstice and it is a nice day. A little on the nippy side, but not bad. Plus that bright, yellow thing in the sky felt good when walking to the car. :-)

.....I can tell also that TBT is solidly back on her diet. Know how I can tell? The Rhys Monster is baking brownies. The Brownie Production Machine always gets turned up a notch when TBT goes on a diet plan. I think it tortures me far more than it tortures TBT though. Just sayin'. :-)

.....Tonight is the final June Faire Board meeting for the 2012 Board of Directors. We've been warned that it may go on for a while. Those on this year's Board had ideas they implemented this year that worked out well, and have ideas they would like to see happen during future June Faires'. Which is a good thing, and what you want to see. You take what worked well and build on it to something better. And since we'll be in Port Gamble again for at least one more year, those ideas will come in handy.

.....Need to see if any of this year's Board wants to stay on the Board for next year. I don't think that Madrun does. :-) Talon might though. Marion possibly (although being the Baronial Exchequer may change her mind). I know that Adelheidi does. Angharad, I'm not sure. Brighid, I'm reasonably sure does not. :-)

.....Port Gamble and OPG have been making progress lately in their local disputes with the County and the Port Gamble Native American Tribe who monitors the improvements / changes OPG wants to make to the area. Permits are looking like they are coming together and the tribe is starting to drop some of their demands, or come to compromises on them with OPG. The reinvention of Port Gamble may happen sooner than we anticipated. I am still not seeing hard dates anywhere, so I'm not holding my breath. The future plan also calls for event space as part of the overall plans. Still no real idea of what this 'event space' will be in terms of actual size, but I continue to hope. Open land in Kitsap County is not in abundance, and what is available is not cheap. Anything useable for an event the size of June Faire is to be cherished and maintained as much as possible. Sure, Port Gamble has issues, but give me the perfect site in Kitsap County and I'll show you something we simply would not be able to afford.

.....The notes from last Thursday's September Crown meeting have been completed and issued to the Team Haggis III e-list. There are a lot of things to do in the next two and a half months. But the Team is already motivated and seems excited about wanting to do things. I was cornered last night at the Tuesday Social for a complaint that I am not giving enough for one of the Team Members to do. They were not whining, they just want to be taken seriously and I understand that. So I gave them some more tasking. :-)

.....The notes from last Wednesday's Regional Pelican Meeting have been completed as well. Sending out notes to the Kingdom e-list to solicit for information. One more item removed from my current 'to-do' list. If I can get a couple of free hours tomorrow night, I'll put in the next episode of The West Wing (currently in Season 3) and work on the overall 'to-do' list.

.....Friday is a stop at the heated storage unit to give the Gold Key garb to Adena so it can be laundered post-June Faire. That will not take long though. It is a Payday Friday, so maybe I'll swing home and grab TBT for a night out at dinner. Date nights for us have been pretty dull since putting on the Coronets. Heaven is simply a night of having nothing to do. :-)

.....Saturday looks busy. We have a meeting with Ellen to discuss Serjeantry and start formulating plans for the August Serjeantry Trials. Need to look at the overall summer Serjeantry schedule and see if there are any land mines in it. I don't think so, but it helps if the three of us talk things out to ensure there are no surprises. If all three of us understand the same thing and can articulate it clearly to each other, we have achieved success. :-) There is a lot of work to the Serjeantry Program. One of my fears is that the next Baron and Baroness may simply drop it all together as it requires so much effort that they may not have the time to take it onto themselves. All the more reason to have a sizeable cadre of Serjeantry Members before TBT and I step down. If nothing else, we're hopeful that given all their effort they'll want to see the Program continue and will do the leg-work. Will keep my fingers crossed as I would someday like to take part in that Program myself.

.....Sunday is a Team Haggis III site walk-through out at the Airport. Archery location will be finally decided, which will hopefully open up some more parking (if the land we're going to receive is conducive to parking). We'll have measuring wheels with us and some flags and will get a 'for real' look at how much space the erics will need. We will also want to measure the distance between the metered water and the Equestrian Area. How much hosing will be needed (if we go that route). I'm a big fan of going to the site itself as often as possible. It is easy to forget the feel and lay-out of the space and its actual size. Getting in touch with it gives you better ideas when laying out your plans.

.....'Brave' opens up in theatres this weekend. The animation looks rather stunning in all the commercials I've seen. I think we'll try to go if we can carve up the time to do so.

.....Would like to pull out the Bass Recorder this weekend and see how it sounds through a pass of 'Lady Hammond's Alman'. It is a John Dowland piece that I'm going to do as a single entry next year at KAS / KBC. I probably shouldn't as time is definitely a precious commodity, but I've been missing music a lot lately and I think this will be fun to do. If I can commit even an hour or two a week to practicing it, the song will be passable at least come next March. KAS / KBC looks like it will be local next year, another good incentive.

.....People are gearing up to attend An Tir / West War in a couple of weeks. There is a part of me that still would really like to go. But there is just too much happening this year. I'm already working on plans to attend next year. I volunteered to be the Financial POC for the event, interacting between Etiennette and the Co-Chairs (Jenae and Magdalena). I'd deposit funds into the bank account I hold and then draft checks as needed. As well as provide the required quarterly reports. After September Crown, I could also help with contracts and such if they need it. I learned a lot working almost the same job for Brighid several years back and think I would be a lot more adept at it this time around. Hopefully I can make it seamless and easy for them.

.....This would be my first time at An Tir / West War in a number of years. I think it has been ten years since I was there last. I went with Inga Calle when she was merchanting Ingasbo. That was one hot event in Caversgate. Half of the Populace in attendance were sitting in the river at about 3PM in the afternoon. I still had a lot of fun though and am looking forward to Gold Beach. 2013 will be my first trip there. :-)

.....Time to go to the June Faire meeting.

.....Aaron / Arontius.

.....Long day at work today. Although not nearly as bad as it could have been. I was able to access my e-mail a couple of times last week in Crane and so was able to stave off the most critical of crises happening while I was away. Today was just the clean up of the mess left behind. It also helped that there is definitely the signs of a vacation exodus at work. Lots of open spaces in the parking garage.

.....Which obliquely reminds me that if I want to take TBT and the Rhys Monster to the Shipyard Family Day in August, I've got to get them registered before Friday. Must remember!

.....Ran into Madrun this evening at Fred Meyers, where I once again wished that I was going with everyone to An Tir / West War. Sigh. :-) Oh, well, I need to stop torturing myself and concentrate on getting things done. I thought it was awfully nice of Madrun though to try and make room for me and my stuff in case I wanted to travel to the event with them.

.....But a three day weekend to get things done is rather appealing as well.

.....Lobelia is coming down to the house for some cleaning.

.....Must finish some circlets sitting on the workbench now.

.....Must finalize the Marketplace for July Coronation. The list will be completed. The mapping done. Confirmation Letters printed and mailed.

.....Must get with TBT and get our Coronation letters written. The twice yearly report is overdue. Need to get the letter of recommendations finished and sent out as well.

.....September Crown bid must be finalized. Which means I need to remember to e-mail Ivan of Druim Doineann and get the required written permission. I wonder if he is off to An Tir / West War this weekend? I'd better e-mail him tonight.

.....Would also like to clean out the garage, which is still feeling the affects of the June Faire hurricane. We'll need a bunch of the stuff piled there for July Coronation.

.....Mateusz saved us a day and time at the Poulsbo PUD Meeting Room for a Baronial June Faire meeting in July. Need to take a little time with TBT and Oliver to define the format so that it is as productive as possible.

.....I think there is a Birthday Bar-B-Que to fit into the weekend as well. It's going to end up being a busy weekend I see. Better put together my priority lists before I start forgetting too many things.

.....Hoping everyone has fun at An Tir / West War. The Barony is going to have its own encampment. If TBT and I were going to be there we'd be encouraging at least one potluck and a Bardic or two. I'm hoping that those who do go plan on doing something together as a group. But maybe it's a good thing they are left to their own devices. They may make it the weekend without having to hear the dreaded 'Baby Shark!' :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.

.....It was a long week compressed into a few short days. The good news is that I get to board an airplane tomorrow morning (at 5:50AM) and fly home. There is so much happening in the world of submarine batteries that everyone was anxious to get back to the front lines. The bad news was that we crammed two weeks worth of material into three long days. Which means a lot of things went unanswered.

.....I was hoping for more solutions, but have been doing battle myself with the evil e-mail and cell phone monster all week. Nextel does not get a signal out at NSWC - Crane, so I would go back to the hotel room each night and deal with the several dozen or so messages waiting for me. I'll be rather glad to get back to my desk next week and have the ability to deal with issues immediately.

.....I sound rather frustrated when I really shouldn't be. It is always a good thing to meet face to face. Putting faces to the voices you hear on conference calls every week makes for a better connection and greater comprehension of what the other is thinking when they speak to something on the phone. It's also a great way to talk things out to ensure what you are saying is what they are interpretting. It is amazing what you think others understand of what you say.

.....What IS frustrating though is dealing with a lot of the engineers here. I get the fact that having a degree means you have a good deal of knowledge at your disposal, and a system of sorts on how to use it. But, Dude! The fact that I have only a two year degree, or my boss, who only has a high school diploma, does not mean that we are stupid. When you throw some data on a board that was gained in a haphazard way and slapped together in a half-assed fashion and expect us to buy it without comment? And looking annoyed when we shoot holes all through your data and results? Why waste all of our time. Grrrr.

.....Indiana itself is rather nice. The people are friendly for the most part. It's hot and muggy, but not nearly as bad as Florida and Georgia. I could get used to it. Although the part that religion plays in their daily lives is rather scary. Their media is saturated with it, as well as their politics. I'd have to learn how to drive a lot more defensively if I lived here as well. :-)

.....There are turtles here as well! I almost ran over one when driving out of Crane. I thought it was a tan rock in the road and realized what it was just as I was whizzing by it. I immediately pulled over and put on my hazard lights and hurried out to make sure it was all right. The turtles are not friendly here, that's for sure. It kept trying to bite me! I just wanted to get the silly thing off the road so it wouldn't get run over. I finally pulled out a binder from my daypack and pushed it off the road. The people who drove by all had the same look on their face. As in 'FREAK'! :-) Oh, well, I like turtles, even mean and nasty turtles, and didn't want to see it hurt.

.....I had hoped to get out early today so I could go and visit Donnan and Callista. But that was not meant to be. Maybe next year.

.....It's an hour drive to the Indianapolis Airport. With a 5:50AM flight, I'll need to be there at least by 4AM. So it looks like a 3AM departure from Bloomington. Sigh! I need to go to bed really soon.

.....Don't have to be anywhere this weekend though. Definitely looking forward to that. An Tir / West was already off the plate. Work is just too intense right now. There was first the possibility that this conference would last all of next week. But even coming back I'll need to catch up with other things back at home. I might try making arrangements earlier next year in order to specifically be able to go to An Tir / West. Too many things to plan for.

.....But am really bummed I missed Newcomers Night. TBT could really have used the support. Plus I would have liked to meet the people who are eventually going to become the force behind Dragon's Laire's success. I like to get in on the ground floor for those relationships. :-)

.....Now I'm rambling. It's time for bed.

.....Aaron / Arontius.

.....Well, when I arrived at my desk this morning I had a present waiting for me. It was my itinerary and official agenda for a meeting I'm going to attend next week in Norfolk, Virginia. I leave on a flight at 11:20 PM Sunday evening so that I can be in Norfolk in time to meet the Captain of the Boat before the end of the work day Monday. It's gonna be a long day on Monday. Better pack the valium for the east going flight. :-)

.....It was a scramble to get everything prepared. I had to put together a Powerpoint presentation in less than a day's time, along with everything else happening at the moment. There were those who grumbled, almost under their breath, at the unfairness of having to do my work and theirs. I suppose that I should have said something when I heard them, but pretending not to hear them lets them vent. I'm O.K. with that.

.....I'm actually just a little bit excited. I haven't done a whole lot of real traveling lately, and I like traveling. The thrill of exploration is rather fun. I haven't been to Norfolk in almost twenty years now, so it will be almost like a brand new place to me. :-) Only Tuesday and Wednesday on site though. The return trip is Thursday, not a whole lot of time to explote. But maybe Zsuzsy could come down for lunch or dinner. That would be fun. :-)

.....I'm rather glad to get out of the office for a few days as well. It's been rather intense. We're in the middle of a big Project that is eating all of our brains right now. So much so that we've had little time to do any other planning, especially for the work in Virginia. The same work for which the Manager and I are flying back to Norfolk to report on how ready (or not) we are to come out in late August and implement. I anticipate a little chewing of my posterior, which is probably one of the reasons Mid Level Boss forced me to go. But I've learned over the past couple of years the fine art of how to look stupid with grace. A valuable skill! :-)

.....Speaking of Mid Level Boss! He's headed out to a Waterfront Project starting on July 6th! And he'll be out there for several months! July will be my golden opportunity to find an escape route! Believe me, the plotting has begun!

.....Hey, I might get to go to Hawaii later this summer! My name was thrown into the hat for Project Management College in Pearl Harbor. The college itself is pretty intense, with homework each night and some meeting time on Saturday. But I should be able to squeeze a day or so to lounge on the beach. And if TBT could go with? Now that would be way cool!

.....I'll miss An Tir / West War, but most of my work will be done before the event even starts, and His Excellency Cedric was already making moves last week to take over the little bit I was to do there (lay-out of biffies / dumpster / etc on site). So I don't think that I'll be missed. But I'll miss the people who'll be there. I hope that it goes really well (which I think it will).

.....So, instead of packing madly for An Tir / West this weekend, I'll be spending Saturday in the garage and cleaning up the yard. And Sunday packing and taking a long nap before taking off to the airport. Hmmm, if we could get the Goodwill stuff dropped off from the Van, I could start packing it for July Coronation. We actually have all the camping gear organized, so it might go fairly easily. Looking forward to it actually.

.....Aaron / Arontius.

.....So I don't forget:

1.) Send invoice to Master Pyotr for (2) hand-wash stations.
2.) Arrange for drinking water to fill (3) available water tanks on site.
.....* 2,000 gallon tank
.....* 1,500 gallon tank
.....* 250 gallon tank (for War Field)
3.) Send an e-mail to the Biffy Goddess to let her know that the Biffy Company will not allow weather stripping to be placed on the doors of the Biffies.
4.) Ask the Site Owner (Lyle) if there are plans for a picnic / gathering in the tree / park area this year.
5.) Discuss the sign post with Dame Brighid (Autocrat Team Chairman).
.....* Ask the sign creator if he would consider taking on additional sign duties.
6.) Discuss with the Site Owner (Lyle) the possibility of permanent shower construction (a la 'Clinton').
7.) Discuss with the Site Owner (Lyle) the availability of unwanted (moldy?) hay for war scenarios, archery, seating, etc.
.....* If Site Owner does not have hay bales available, ask for contact information for local providers.
.....* War Scenarios require (150) LIGHT-WEIGHT bales. Total of (225) wanted for all uses (including archery, rapier, equestrian, additional seating, etc.).
.....* Light-weight bales are 60-pounds or less, heavy-weight are approximately 125-pounds.
8.) The Biffy Goddess needs an additional $50 for Biffy Supplies.
9.) Map out Biffies ((33) regular and (6) ADA), hand-wash stations (2), and trash dumpsters ((2) 25-yard and (1) 20-yard).
.....* (2) large dumpsters placed near gate and (1) smaller dumpster near Marketplace.
.....* Don't forget to place Biffies near Equestrian / Archery, Royal Encampment, Marketplace and A&S Arena.
.....* Places markers for all above on Talon-created Google Earth map of site.
10.) Discuss with Biffy Company if there are any portions of site that they can not access.
11.) Discuss with Biffy Company the area needed for Grey Water storage tanks.
12.) Discuss the acquisition of marking paint.
.....* How much is needed?
.....* Can Dragon's Laire supply the left over material from June Faire (at a fair, but reduced, price)?
13.) Discuss with Mistress Gwenllyn the placement of Food Merchants (so that amenities (trash, biffies, hand-wash, grey water, etc.) can accommodate.
14.) Place markers for all appropriate notes from above on Talon-created Google Earth map of site.
.....* Preliminary set-up by Thursday evening so that map can be discussed this weekend.
15.) Ensure that Biffy Company and Trash Company do not place their hardware on site before sometime after 3:00 PM on Wednesday (so that someone from the Autocrat Team can meet them for placement).

.....Better get moving. Lots to do and a short time in which to do it. I am glad that Master Pyotr has been so quick with responses to my requests. Biffies and trash are already paid.

.....Arontius / Aaron.