Edited to add: it turns out that if I had created an account with the publisher there would have been a button to push to send the book direct to my kindle app. So, if I hadn't been too lazy to fill in the form, it wouldn't have been that difficult. Read several chapters last night. Worth the frustrations trying to get it.

I just tried to buy hrj's ( Read more... )

Many years ago, while visiting corva, she took me back-pack shopping, and I found a wonderful Camelbak pack that was everything I was looking for. Small enough to be a good every-day take with me bag and to fit under the seat in front of me on an airplane when fully loaded, yet big enough to fit everything I wanted to have within easy reach while ( Read more... )

After C. moved in with us this spring we occasionally started noting times when it might have been handy to have a second car. Nothing that wasn't easy to work around, like her dropping me at the University for the SCA meeting on her way to dance class, but one could see how it could make a difference in the future. Neither of them hesitated when ( Read more... )

When I first got off the plane in Prague the heat didn't feel *that* bad. Sure, the guy in front of my said something like "holy shit!" when it hit him, but since I had dressed for the expected heat and didn't add any layers during the flight my body was kind of cold when we landed, so I coped just fine with the walk from the plane to the bus, ( Read more... )

Since I wasn't signed up for any of today's short courses I took the day off. Started out by walking into town the senic way--keeping fairly high on the hill, passing Fitzroy Gardens and eventually wending my way into the city center, arriving just after 09:00, which was good since I wanted a few things from the shops ( Read more... )

Early this afternoon lord_kjar and I went out to purchase some supplies so that we can make a better hammer dulcimer stand than the improvised one we have been using that started life as the support for a portable table. We did, in fact, get those supplies. However, while we were out we also bought a bed ( Read more... )

Around 01:30 in the morning on Friday I got ready for bed, took off clothes, crawled into bed, looked out our bedroom window, which faces westward, and saw the Northern Lights! This is the first time I have ever seen them from a window in our house (and we have seen in them in our yard only once before, last winter). I woke up lord_kjar with my ( Read more... )

Due to time and budget constraints I have not been as active at the Kingdom (or even Principality) level as I would like to be since moving to Nordmark, since we mostly only attend things within a three hour drive, and only do far away events once or twice a year. As a result I am long since out of the habit of planning to attend Kingdom level ( Read more... )

The concept of "shopping" really consists of three components. #1 is Buying. This is when you know what it is you want, and where to get it. You go there (either in person or on line), you choose the thing(s) you want, you pay for it, you take it home. You and the merchant are both happy. #2 is Research. You know what you want, but you have no ( Read more... )

Thursday (4 Aug) we loaded up the car, and were most pleased to discover that the pile of things we felt important to take with us for the Visby Medieval Week not only fit in the car (or, in the case of the pavilion poles and frame for the rope bed, on the roof), but there was enough room to spare that we had a gap in the center through which one ( Read more... )