I miss you LJ
Haven't had the bandwidth or motivation to keep LJ up to date - flat out at work still, Raglan looming.
Feels like:
Can't talk during the day, busy workin'.
Can't talk during the weekend, busy scribin' or sortin' stuff.
Can't talk evenings, busy stitchin' or scribin' or recovering from work.
Some good stuff:
Thamesreach's 15th anniversary was last weekend which we marked with a rapier revel and our usual potluck feast. We told stories of our first encounter with Thamesreach, and sat 24 people to dinner. Very satisfying.
I'd put together a passport for Katheryne Gordon and her family to Ealdormere, as they are moving to Brennistein Vatn, for his highness to present on behalf of TRM, which was well received. Hopefully the family's PCS scrolls will reach them in Ealdormere.
The scribes have come through once more with fabulous willingness to do scrolls for Raglan. I spent a very pleasant evening looking through the scroll blank collection, largely thanks to badgersandjam who assembled it, and am very grateful for it, as it makes some of the magic possible.
I've written one article recently about using the order of precedence, and have another under review about basically where awards come from ('when a mother and father award love each other very much...'). I'm intending it for the next Baelfyr.
The occasion for it is growth in Insulae Draconis, and new people not as familiar with the conventions of our region as others, so I'm trying to fill the gap in a constructive way.
In late June we visited with Vitus as family at a backyard BBQ: these are less common in England than elsewhere, as a) shortage of backyards and b) intrinsic belief by the English that any attempt to BBQ is doomed to failure.
Happily Vitus is German and is untroubled by such insecurities. :-)
He now has 2 divots on the right side of his skull where he had surgery to relieve the pressure on his brain following his slip.
He says there's an option to put plates in to cover but they're 'cosmetic' and don't really help add more protection...but he might get them just to trigger the body scanners at the airports. :-)
Isabel his lady looks beautiful - not everyone does at 8 months pregnant but she's managing it.
Weekend before last we spent some time hanging out with Nasr and Haroun, and eating pizza, which apparently made Haroun's day.
A couple of weeks ago I got to spend an evening with Sir Wiglaf, one of my favourite people in Drachenwald. He's based in Austria and doesn't visit much, so any time to spend with him is precious. This was on Ye Holy Gaming Night so Robert was otherwise engaged! so it was just the two of us, at least to start.
I had a beer with him then we went to dinner with Nasr and Bridget a friend of N&E's from Calontir, going for Mexican food.
I can count the number of times I've had mexican food in Europe on one hand and still make rude gestures - I even miss Taco Bell for pete's sake. It was a treat of an evening.
I've sent Wiglaf some suggestions for his 'peer doc' which is posted on greydragon.org. Since it's dated 2000 it's practically web-medieval itself, but it's still totally worth reading.
Reading it gives you a sense of what a conversation with Wiglaf is like, which is to say, somewhat surreal. :-)
Feels like:
Can't talk during the day, busy workin'.
Can't talk during the weekend, busy scribin' or sortin' stuff.
Can't talk evenings, busy stitchin' or scribin' or recovering from work.
Some good stuff:
Thamesreach's 15th anniversary was last weekend which we marked with a rapier revel and our usual potluck feast. We told stories of our first encounter with Thamesreach, and sat 24 people to dinner. Very satisfying.
I'd put together a passport for Katheryne Gordon and her family to Ealdormere, as they are moving to Brennistein Vatn, for his highness to present on behalf of TRM, which was well received. Hopefully the family's PCS scrolls will reach them in Ealdormere.
The scribes have come through once more with fabulous willingness to do scrolls for Raglan. I spent a very pleasant evening looking through the scroll blank collection, largely thanks to badgersandjam who assembled it, and am very grateful for it, as it makes some of the magic possible.
I've written one article recently about using the order of precedence, and have another under review about basically where awards come from ('when a mother and father award love each other very much...'). I'm intending it for the next Baelfyr.
The occasion for it is growth in Insulae Draconis, and new people not as familiar with the conventions of our region as others, so I'm trying to fill the gap in a constructive way.
In late June we visited with Vitus as family at a backyard BBQ: these are less common in England than elsewhere, as a) shortage of backyards and b) intrinsic belief by the English that any attempt to BBQ is doomed to failure.
Happily Vitus is German and is untroubled by such insecurities. :-)
He now has 2 divots on the right side of his skull where he had surgery to relieve the pressure on his brain following his slip.
He says there's an option to put plates in to cover but they're 'cosmetic' and don't really help add more protection...but he might get them just to trigger the body scanners at the airports. :-)
Isabel his lady looks beautiful - not everyone does at 8 months pregnant but she's managing it.
Weekend before last we spent some time hanging out with Nasr and Haroun, and eating pizza, which apparently made Haroun's day.
A couple of weeks ago I got to spend an evening with Sir Wiglaf, one of my favourite people in Drachenwald. He's based in Austria and doesn't visit much, so any time to spend with him is precious. This was on Ye Holy Gaming Night so Robert was otherwise engaged! so it was just the two of us, at least to start.
I had a beer with him then we went to dinner with Nasr and Bridget a friend of N&E's from Calontir, going for Mexican food.
I can count the number of times I've had mexican food in Europe on one hand and still make rude gestures - I even miss Taco Bell for pete's sake. It was a treat of an evening.
I've sent Wiglaf some suggestions for his 'peer doc' which is posted on greydragon.org. Since it's dated 2000 it's practically web-medieval itself, but it's still totally worth reading.
Reading it gives you a sense of what a conversation with Wiglaf is like, which is to say, somewhat surreal. :-)