Arontius of Bygelswade

.....Tell me why we're doing this again? Oh, yeah, we're going to see some great Arts, Sciences and Bardic being performed and displayed on behalf of the Kingdom Championships. I gotta keep reminding myself of that. It is too early to be up and not headed to work. :-)

.....I suppose that staying up until Midnight wasn't the most brilliant of ideas either. Both TBT and I are a little zombie like this morning. But everything is packed and ready for the arrival of Florence the Wonder Van's appearance. We'll load her up and hit the 7:20AM ferry. Of course, with a stop at Starbucks along the way.

.....It seems strange to not be packing a dozen bins or so worth of 'stuff'. I've got one suitcase, one bin and my backpack, and I'm sure that TBT would say that I've still packed way too much stuff.

.....Let's see, I've got garb for two days. I've got clothes for return trip. I've got toiletries. I've got the bling and the Coronet. Food is packed. Vitamins and protein are packed. The documentation is packed. Victoria (the GPS) is packed. Enhanced Driver's License is packed. New SCA membership card is packed. I think I've got everything.

.....Looks like I get to judge one entry with Angharad and another with Brighid. Hopefully, we'll keep the geekdom arguments to a minimum. But the entries will be fun to argue. The documentation for all the items I have leave lots of room to learn more and ask lots of questions.

.....It'll be very interesting to hear the Latin being spoken. Or will it be sung? And what will be the justification for style? :-) The Terza Rima will be exceedingly interesting. It is done in a thoroughly modern English. I struggle with that immensely myself as using more period language and grammar styles sounds very strange to me unless I really work at it. That's still the chasm I have to leap.

.....Was hoping that Renart and / or Aelianora would have been at the Business Meeting last night. I was looking in the mail the other day at a circular packet of coupons and there was ne in there for a CSA Farm up in the north end of the county. I was curious to see what they thought of them. 'Abundantly Green' is the name of their farm. Gotta remember to ask them about it.

.....The meeting was light on attendance, but not as light as I suspected it might be. But the group approved the picnic going to two days, even at the possibility of a funding loss (although small in scope). I was surprised to hear that. But, you know, you camp and do the SCA to get away from the 'Modern Lifestyle', so I suppose it makes sense to a degree.

.....Now I'm rambling, more than usual. Time to get ready to go. Pinticton, B.C., here we come. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.