Most tournaments you win a cool bauble...
Maybe it's just that I haven't won anything in a while (read: years), but I forgot that the prize for the Queen's Champion Tournament is a six month position ;)
Luckily, she's pretty cool.

You know that you've squired to the right guy when he:

• Works until midnight, then goes back to work at 6am, and finally shows up in armour at the Household retreat an hour before the Shere Khan Tournament, and starts breakfast with a beer, or three;
• Then fights a 15-person "Meanest mother" (Free-for-all) with a great sword, without taking a break, ( Read more... )

Just in case anyone still reads these, it's been several months of ups and downs...
great times playing SCA again.... intollerable BS at work.

Long story short.... I think I'll be leaving this place soon.... It's been too long since I've been happy here, and I hate coming into work.

and at the absolute top of that list of things is that His Lordship Michael MacBain could be recognized for the honorable and valorous man that he has always been, and be offered admittance into the chivalry.
It's a long way from the guy who wanted to wear a ball cap at his first event...

I can't believe that I didn't hate it. I am absolutely astounded that it FELT like a Star Trek movie! Karl Urban was believable... the plot felt like any ST:TNG plot...
I was raised on the original... I hated Voyager with a passion... I never watched Enterprise... but I liked (not loved) it.
I am still a little shocked.

Not that I particularly post very often, but I have been meaning to ( Read more... )

One of my partners at the fire house is alumnus of Columbine High school. He was there that day. He ducked under a table when it happened, and ran like hell to get outside.
This morning, he received a piece of the usual spam email from classmates.com; which read: "Remeber Eric Harris? See what he's been up to!"

Completely unacceptable.

Dave Arneson, co-creator of AD&D passed on April 7th.
Though less known than Mr. Gygax, he was the author of the one and only AD&D module I ever bought, "The Temple of the Frog".
Via con Dios.

Hand-sanded rattan 9' spear, stained and carved with passages of the Havamal: check ( Read more... )

Not wanting to actually leave work for a week long vacation...
(In my defense, I haven't felt this under-prepared and out of time for an Estrella since I was in my early 20's...)