I had a great time on Saturday, getting my sword arm moving again under the direction of dcamville and some other advanced students. We never did make it into armor, so I still want to get to that. But my shoulder survived a full day of drills and slow work, which I was somewhat worried about ( Read more... )

I am still without a home computer. I took yesterday off for a mixture of recovery and chores; one of the things I failed to do was resurrect my old laptop. Still waiting for Dell to return my new one - their estimate hasn't run out, but I'm an impatient customer ( Read more... )

I'm a bit old for going out once every six months and encouraging my friends to club me with sticks. The demo was, despite the drubbing, quite a bit of fun. I even hit my stride for a few fights on Saturday; it felt like I knew what I was doing ( Read more... )

I polished the worst of the rust off my armor last night, in preparation for being part of the Baycon SCA demo on Saturday and Sunday. Unfortunately the rust doesn't come off the skill set quite that easily; I'm going to get clubbed like a harp seal ( Read more... )

Mostly a diary post, mostly probably skippable.

( Cut the boring bits )

Mists/Cynagua war ( Read more... )

Interesting, if tiring weekend ( Read more... )

We were all set to make an early start for 12th night. Plans derailed at about 0330 on Saturday morning, when Christopher woke up with an ear infection ( Read more... )

The event: We got to the event a little late to find that the event itself was running more than a little late. I fought to the limits of Christopher's endurance as a spectator. It was a fun little tourney, though as I suspected I was pretty well overmatched. I went out with my old war polearm, but didn't succeed in converting the new ( Read more... )