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Crusades and the joy that is LibraryThing
2005-10-13 - 10:52 a.m.
Okay, I'm hooked too. Waiting for the paid account to kick in so
I can catalog more... Library Thing is
the the bomb. It is also letting me get reacquainted with some of
my books. "Oh, I forgot about
you! How silly of me." Maybe eventually we might
really organize our shelves instead of the where-the-books-fit method
we have now. :) I have to say that the wireless internet is
crucial for this, since I could take the laptop to the costume books,
instead of the other way around. I've got costuming books in the
sewing room, weaving/knitting/nalbinding books in the string room, art
books in the living room, and I haven't even ventured to the fiction in
the basement. And I'm entirely skipping Alan's books on
philosophy, warfare, Rumpole, sci-fi, etc. Either he can create
his own account, or I'll let him add his to mine in time.
I've been battling all day sinus(?) headache lately. Had it all
day yesterday, made me virtually worthless. It's starting this
morning, which is not pleasing me. Dunno if it is weather or
what. I've found myself clenching my jaw more lately too which
can't help. grr...
Crusades was a bit damp. But I actually ended up having a decent
time. Got to chat some with Anne, Melisent, Orianna, the
Adorables, and folks in cabins. Got some business out of the
way. Went to the Spanish
Peacock and got a beautiful beech sprang loom. The
down side, as I told Miguel in email, is that the loom is so pretty I'm
not being terribly productive because I'm caught by the shiney
aspect. Admire the pretty loom, now must use the pretty
loom. I've already got most of another pouch done, so I just need
to finish it off. I got to sprang geek with some folks from the
East, hang out some with the Arielle, some with the Bera and her
sister, check out the groovy A&S, chat and hang with Helmut and
Kathall, and in general have a good time whilst staying out of the
rain. It was smaller, true, but still entertaining. The
main irritation was the Eastern R-MIC who asked us to move our tent to
the other side of the gully while we were setting it up. Let me
get this straight, you don't want us to put a tent where we
traditionally have always had tents on the edge of the rapier field,
which happens to be a piece of land that is draining well. The
alternative that you impolitely suggest is that we move to the other
side of the gully, the low side of the gully so when the gully
overflows, it will run right into our tent? And the odds are that you
aren't even going to fight outside, or if you do your numbers will be
sparse? sigh. We moved it and had to pick up everything
that wasn't furniture off the ground so it wouldn't sit in a puddle of
water. eh. When we were finally done with the event, Alan
and Kynny took down the tent, and we boogied off-site around
3:30pm.
While the invitation to the Bandes gathering at Carla's was tempting,
the need to hang out the tent to dry at home, and the possible fire in
the fireplace won out. Once we got home we unpacked the truck and
set stuff out to dry. Gen, in a rare moment of clarity, found a
solution to getting the center of the tent off of the ground to improve
air flow for drying. Alan's attempts to prop up a pole fell flat
when we tried to spread out the canvas from there. I saw a hook
in the ceiling, so taking an extra piece of rope put a figure eight
stop knot in one end, ran the other up through the center grommet, over
the hook and then a cow hitch to hold it in place. Then we used
the sawhorses under each corner to spread it out and a heater/fan did
the rest. hooray for empty garage. We then napped, read,
watched movies, and I played with the new sprang loom.
Sunday was a leisurely morning, and then a showing of Serenity with the AoD, her
Bob, Val and Arielle, which is still an awesome movie. Afterwards
we went to Ruby Tuesday's with V&A and chatted for a while, drawing
a map of Columbia, and trying to figure out the area for them. It
was a good time, but eventually we had to go so I could head off to the
Storvik Business Mtg to pass off stuff to Llyr. Hooray,
freedom.
Hmm... running out of steam... need more excedrin...
Those who missed fighting at Crusades, this weekend is Storvik's
Baronial B'day in Croom MD, which will have some melee fun.
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