Pennsic in points

[j_v_lynch]

Gentle Readers,

I'm home from pennsic. While I missed you all, I could only go back a few hundred in old posts so I may have missed something important. If there was something that happened in the last 2 weeks that you want me to know about, tell me now.

Pennsic was pretty fun, but surprisingly busy. The things I really had to do was surprisingly large:

• I taught a class on Pallas Armata
• I assisted in a couple of I.33 classes
• I assisted with the Shoe making class
• Ealdormere Court
• Skraeling Althing court
• Fight in the Rapier Champion's war point
• Attend the Baronial Rapier and Armoured Champions tourneys
• Fishing class with Lydia
• Fingerloop braiding with lydia
• Water battle with lydia
• Cook for 40 at Chez D'Argent
• look at chairs

Then there were the things I did because I wanted to:

• 2 classes with Tom Lioni
• 3 with Scott Wilson
• Social obligations
• Validating our heraldry (no conflicts, looks fantastic, is in the hands of the submission herald)
• hanging out with lydia
• hamocks
• listen to the choir teaser

The things I wanted to do but didn't get to:

• Attend non martial grownup classes
• read
• spend more money
• cook more
• sleep more

Things to improve for next year:

• Try to limit the average daily circuits of pennsic to 2 not 4. Better planning will help.
• Have 2 copies of the schedule
• tell the bards that although singing while marching is good, and dramatic slowdowns while singing are good, the 2 together do not work well.
• Tell the fencing commanders that while knowing how best to hit my opponent would be useful, knowing that he was left handed and favoured curved blades and oblique attacks would be more useful.
• Eat more cold things and less fried things.
• try to fence more than a single bout in the whole 2 weeks
• take at least 1 picture

And now I'll do something that I didn't get to do at pennsic: take a nap.