I met jarethsgirl tonight. She's in her first year in the SCA and is interested in running a dance event, so I agreed to be her mentor. (New autocrats require a mentor here ( Read more... )

For the last several years there's been a gradual decline in the number ( Read more... )

Today the local SCA group hosted the Academy, a (roughly) semi-annual ( Read more... )

Friday night's service had a lot of people, in part because it was a ( Read more... )

Friday night was our "mostly musical Shabbat" service ( Read more... )

We had a clear sky for last night's eclipse, though things were darker than I expected. Yeah, duh, "dark" is part of the definition -- I mean that I was somehow expecting the moon to be closer to red than it was.
There are only two classes at the upcoming Academy (SCA event) that specifically interest me. (Thanks, dagonell, for the list.) Naturally, ( Read more... )

Rosh Hashana went well for me, but I don't find myself having a lot to say about it. There are some bits of the liturgy that particularly struck me, and maybe later I'll get my machzor (high-holy-day prayerbook) and post them.
Shabbat morning I got a phone call from that day's ( Read more... )

Friday night my synagogue had its once-every-two-years ( Read more... )

Wow. On Thursday I turned on the dehumidifier in our house, and in the first four hours it pulled more than half a gallon of moisture out of the air. I guess it was time. :-) (Today, it pulled over a gallon in approximately 7 hours. With AC running on the first floor.)
This Shabbat was the bar mitzvah of one of the regulars ( Read more... )

Dani and I day-tripped War Practice (at Cooper's Lake ( Read more... )