Mid-day heat broke with afternoon rain, followed by a lovely evening and late night thunderstorms. Yay! There was one particularly long, rolling peal of thunder that started off with a gunshot boom, then a whole series of drum rolls and rumbles. I wish I had a recording of it ( Read more... )

... and I still don't know what I'm doing. I think my largest contribution to entertaining the players was getting the bridge built (with lots of help from Alymar, Reynard, and Vlad (we only twisted his arm a little)) so that people could get out to the White Spring after dark without falling in the stream. Pretty much everything else I did was ( Read more... )

The first event at the new camp has come and gone. The site has ... ups and downs. Hopefully we'll be able to fix some of the downs before the next event. One of the ups, by me, was cabin seventeen, a wacky little building, which I managed to yoink for nearly all of the event (though sadly one of the modules I set up there never ran.) Maybe I' ( Read more... )

Three large garbage bags of stuff were tossed from the Madrigal trailer, and almost as much exiled to our fearless leader's basement. It's much easier to put everything away neatly now, and there's room for things that deserve it to be promoted from "stuffed in a bag in a corner" to "sharing a labeled bin". Yay ( Read more... )

Wanting a hot beverage, I broke out the "Cocoa Spice" tea (contains no actual tea). It's quite tasty -- milder and less sweet than the Bengal Spice, the most obvious thing I've tried to compare it to, but chocolate it's not. Not unlike the masala milk chocolate bar jencallisto gave me a while back, it's a tasty with a nicely balanced spicy flavor in which ( Read more... )

Madness dropped by for tea. We used a lot of tape. It's fun to take things apart and put them back together as something else, and I don't always have to make things to be lasting and perfect. It'd be good to remember that more often. It's easier to leap in with abandon when I'm not concerned with every detail of the final product, too. ( Read more... )

For kittens, and a Madrigal staff meeting ( Read more... )

A very friendly black cat lives along my usual route to the T. Weather permitting, he's often sunning himself in his yard, but always looks up if I say hi to him, and if he's up and about, he'll often walk up to me and meow for scritches. If I sit down, he'll hop in my lap. Today, I failed to sit down and provide a proper lap, so on one of his ( Read more... )

All my pins are now in the costume I'm making for the next Madrigal event. (Almost all, anyway -- there are several things in the hopelessly backlogged projects in progress box that probably have some pins in them.) I stopped on the way home from the staff meeting to get more pins, as I ran out most of the way through a hemline. I hope I haven't ( Read more... )

Tuesday night I went my my first Madrigal staff meeting. Wednesday night I took scissors to fabric that's been in my stash since I was an undergrad -- possibly since I was a froshling -- to start on the costume for the upcoming event. (Certainly I remember wanting to make my own version of my freshman year roommate's cloak as the motive for ( Read more... )