Now that fabricdragon has confessed to allowing herself to dehydrate, I'll tell my side of it.

Background

Kirsten is prone to dehydration and heat exhaustion. A few years ago at Pennsic (click the link if you're unfamiliar with the event) she dehydrated while setting up her tent. She was taken to the Chirurgeon's (i.e., medic's) tent, where they gave her two ( Read more... )

For those who know and care, Kirsten fabricdragon just got back home from East Kingdom Coronation in Springfield, Massachusetts. She took off from home here in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 4:30 AM(!) and got to the event in MA at 9:00 AM. She got out of the event at about 6:45 PM this evening, and rolled in a little while ago at about 11:20 PM ( Read more... )

This apparently happened a week or so ago:

Man tells of first class flight with corpse

There was a discussion of this on the Straight Dope chat board.

The message that made me think of fabricdragon was this.

I hope I survive coming home this evening...

Well, we're off to the Stierbach Holiday Faire in Manassas, Virginia. Over the last several years this event has grown to be one of the largest SCA merchanting events around.

Unfortunately, we just found out (and I mean, as of today) that there will be a wool merchant and and yarn merchant at the event with us! We had been the only ones there with ( Read more... )

Hokay, we are back from Seraglio!

Fun event, lots of nice folks (Carillion roxxorz!!1! :) Kirsten made some money, even I made some money!

( More details, plus another of my obsessions, here! )

We (the Missus and I) are off to an SCA event tomorrow (Saturday). It's called Seraglio: Marketplace in Malta. It's in Flemington, NJ from 10 AM through 10 PM. Anyone who wants to visit with us should come to the event. It promises to be fun! (And, hopefully, profitable!)

See you next week! :)