Pennsic XLI, Friday, Peace Week
Fri Aug 3 07:14:00 EDT 2012
I'm giving up on trying to sleep any longer.
Friday 19:35
Cat arrived in camp this morning, and gave me a bit of a concussion with the ferocity of her hug. ☺
My watch died in the first class this morning. I was just about to change the battery again, but I see it's running again now. I guess I'll leave it for now.... [The watch zeroed out again while I was resetting it. This bodes not well....]
I think the Red Cross Blood Drive was today, but I wasn't sure what day it was. The class schedules have the date, but the day of the week was not someplace I could find it quickly - and my watch had died. The blood drive continues Monday, so I still have an opportunity to donate.
KWC rehearsal was good today. I need to put the MP3 files on a flash card for Anna.
Lots of good classes today. I got up the hill too late for the first class I was after (tablet weaving), but the class I went to instead (Medieval witch hunts and trials) was really good. The instructor had a lot of material and great presentation. The instructor for the leather tooling class brought only 10 handouts. It was his first teaching, but you have to assume he's been to classes at Pennsic before, and knows that attendance is (a) typically pretty good, (b) always good for hands-on craft classes, and (c) usually packed for introductory-level craft classes. There was supposed to be some hands-on practice, but the Q&A (which was good Q&A) took up all the time.
The pilgrim-bag class ended a little early, so I caught the end of the 2nd presentation of the soap-making class that didn't happen Wednesday. Some of the people who did the impromptu soap class in its stead Wednesday were there for today's class. I got the handout and the sample. As on Wednesday, the same instructor had a Kumihimo (Japanese braiding) class following, and in contrast to my attendance rules above, I was the only student for this introductory hands-on craft class. (There had been a few others there and disappointed on Wednesday.) As a private lesson, it didn't take long to present the material. I can see how someone might get into a meditative state working on this. (anniemal took a Kumihimo class her last Pennsic, and she picks it up to work on periodically. So she's already got the materials and I don't need to buy anything if I want to continue with it.)
The History of Body Art class was a little weak; I think she was also a new instructor. Then rehearsal, and a couple of good archaeology classes on Anglo-Saxons and the Middle East. The instructor is a professional archaeologist, and had lots of stories along with the pictures of artifacts.
I didn't get to the glass shop today to pick up the subtractive-work piece I did yesterday. I needed to be fired overnight.
Friday 20:28
I have copied the MP3 files to a flash drive for Anna. I didn't download the individual-part files, so I don't have the tenor parts alone that she was hoping for. (I didn't need the single parts myself because I rarely have trouble picking my part out of an ensemble.) I have the sung files of all the parts. I didn't listen to them before because I like the thrill of sight reading in a group for the first hearing. But I've just played one (Ach, weh des Leiden), and it was stunningly beautiful. I can't wait until the whole group can do it that clearly, do it justice. It would have been nice to have these in my MP3 player to listen to on the drive here.
Saturday 00:18
keith_m043's friend Colleen arrived at camp this evening. She seems rather nice. She's been to 10 Pennsics, but not the last 2. She'll be here only until Monday. ☹ (It's such a long way to come for just a weekend.)
Joe is here too.
Dinner tonight was beef barley soup. People came and went at varying times.
My watch is still running. Tomorrow may be another story....
I am still unable to get my MP3 player to show up as a USB device on my laptop (so I can copy MP3 files from the laptop to the player).
The laptop needs another recharge. The battery went down faster after I opened a file browser on a directory with 3000+ files and opened Firefox windows with 2500+ images.
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/538158.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
I'm giving up on trying to sleep any longer.
Friday 19:35
Cat arrived in camp this morning, and gave me a bit of a concussion with the ferocity of her hug. ☺
My watch died in the first class this morning. I was just about to change the battery again, but I see it's running again now. I guess I'll leave it for now.... [The watch zeroed out again while I was resetting it. This bodes not well....]
I think the Red Cross Blood Drive was today, but I wasn't sure what day it was. The class schedules have the date, but the day of the week was not someplace I could find it quickly - and my watch had died. The blood drive continues Monday, so I still have an opportunity to donate.
KWC rehearsal was good today. I need to put the MP3 files on a flash card for Anna.
Lots of good classes today. I got up the hill too late for the first class I was after (tablet weaving), but the class I went to instead (Medieval witch hunts and trials) was really good. The instructor had a lot of material and great presentation. The instructor for the leather tooling class brought only 10 handouts. It was his first teaching, but you have to assume he's been to classes at Pennsic before, and knows that attendance is (a) typically pretty good, (b) always good for hands-on craft classes, and (c) usually packed for introductory-level craft classes. There was supposed to be some hands-on practice, but the Q&A (which was good Q&A) took up all the time.
The pilgrim-bag class ended a little early, so I caught the end of the 2nd presentation of the soap-making class that didn't happen Wednesday. Some of the people who did the impromptu soap class in its stead Wednesday were there for today's class. I got the handout and the sample. As on Wednesday, the same instructor had a Kumihimo (Japanese braiding) class following, and in contrast to my attendance rules above, I was the only student for this introductory hands-on craft class. (There had been a few others there and disappointed on Wednesday.) As a private lesson, it didn't take long to present the material. I can see how someone might get into a meditative state working on this. (anniemal took a Kumihimo class her last Pennsic, and she picks it up to work on periodically. So she's already got the materials and I don't need to buy anything if I want to continue with it.)
The History of Body Art class was a little weak; I think she was also a new instructor. Then rehearsal, and a couple of good archaeology classes on Anglo-Saxons and the Middle East. The instructor is a professional archaeologist, and had lots of stories along with the pictures of artifacts.
I didn't get to the glass shop today to pick up the subtractive-work piece I did yesterday. I needed to be fired overnight.
Friday 20:28
I have copied the MP3 files to a flash drive for Anna. I didn't download the individual-part files, so I don't have the tenor parts alone that she was hoping for. (I didn't need the single parts myself because I rarely have trouble picking my part out of an ensemble.) I have the sung files of all the parts. I didn't listen to them before because I like the thrill of sight reading in a group for the first hearing. But I've just played one (Ach, weh des Leiden), and it was stunningly beautiful. I can't wait until the whole group can do it that clearly, do it justice. It would have been nice to have these in my MP3 player to listen to on the drive here.
Saturday 00:18
keith_m043's friend Colleen arrived at camp this evening. She seems rather nice. She's been to 10 Pennsics, but not the last 2. She'll be here only until Monday. ☹ (It's such a long way to come for just a weekend.)
Joe is here too.
Dinner tonight was beef barley soup. People came and went at varying times.
My watch is still running. Tomorrow may be another story....
I am still unable to get my MP3 player to show up as a USB device on my laptop (so I can copy MP3 files from the laptop to the player).
The laptop needs another recharge. The battery went down faster after I opened a file browser on a directory with 3000+ files and opened Firefox windows with 2500+ images.
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/538158.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]