January is always a full month for us. This weekend is the first day of set-building for Cold (opens Valentine's Day weekend), it's 12th Night in Minneapolis (as well as the 40th Anniversary of Nordskogen), and Fighter's Symposium in the suburbs of Chicago. Oh, and plenty to do around the house should I decide to not do these other things. Sewing, ( Read more... )

The last time I posted here was October 20, when Laura was in Pinawa visiting with her parents - we had gone up the first weekend in October because her mom had recently been admitted to the hospital and was waiting for a space to open at a nearby nursing home. I flew up that weekend (October 25) and we drove back over the next few days. Shortly ( Read more... )

On Friday I drove to Pinawa, a drive which Google thinks should take 14 hours but really takes more like 15. (Google doesn't stop for the bathroom.) I spent Saturday up there with Laura and her dad and Michael (her nephew), and we visited her mom in the hospital and had dinner at a Chinese place in Lac du Bonnet. On Sunday I drove home (which ( Read more... )

On Friday the 3rd Laura and I drove halfway to Pinawa. We encountered heavy, wet snowfall between Eau Claire and Duluth (roughly 140 miles, turning a two hour stretch of road into three and a half, and our hotel room was possibly the largest I've ever stayed in - easily double the size of a normal hotel room. On Saturday we got off to a slow start ( Read more... )

The weekend of the 20th was moderately eventful. I spent Saturday at Baronial Champions, a local SCA moot, where I fought in two heavy weapons tournaments and won one of them. I am now the local heavy weapons champion, so ... so there. Laura and I had been invited to a birthday party that night, but she wasn't feeling well so I went without her. ( Read more... )

Last week was busy, go figure. Monday and Wednesday nights were Opera rehearsal, which was actually great fun - I was on the same light board that I used at StOlaf, and it felt like coming home. My fingers even remembered where the buttons on the keypad were, and writing new cues was just a blast. Tuesday night I spent at home with Laura. Thursday ( Read more... )

I'm in SCA Today!

Originally posted by scatoday at Peter Joyner made Laurel at Pennsic 43

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Master Abelard die Elster reports that at Their camp at Pennsic 43, Their Majesties Siegfried and Elizabeth of the Kingdom of Northshield offered elevation to the Order of the Laurel to Peter Joyner.

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This past weekend was closing weekend at Faire. I took some time off to wander with C and Jim on Sunday, and left an hour or so before close on Monday, but otherwise worked the whole three days. This week Ginger and Scott are packing things up and getting ready for the drive; Scott had a dentist appointment today which will probably prevent them ( Read more... )

Monday night was errand night. And I caught up on some tv. Tuesday night Dahrien came over and we watched Toxic Avenger and Space Zombie Bingo before he left for work ( Read more... )

My livejournal has a floating archived post about my Pelican ceremony which is now a few weeks old (and still isn't finished), so new posts become a jiggery-pokey dance. I mean, summer is typically a time with fewer posts for me, but ... anyway, sorry about the radio silence ( Read more... )