I love the first day or two after invites go out.  Getting all the yes respones is a constant thrill.  Of course, the nos are hard but since I sort of assume I will be missing lots of the total availible talent pool, I can take them OK.  But the suprise yeses really make up for it.  Whether its first time instructors who just got eligible for their ( Read more... )

My trip to Utah was totally buggered.  Cancelled fights, not enough alternate choices and eventually I decided that spending a day and a half traipsing around the nation for just about 14 hours on the ground in Utah, wasnt worth it.  I didnt get the price of the flight back and although I intend to try some more to get it, I dont expect to ( Read more... )

Mostly I never update because I am to busy to say much

I have been playing Amtgard like a fiend.  October was like this so far:

Thor’s Refuge in Sacramento, then a weekend off to hang with my sister and her family, then Saturday in LaCrosse, WI for the Principality of Olympus event, then Sunday in my park for our mini event, then Knoblander near St. ( Read more... )

As a follow on for the first question, if I pay for some space, how taleted do I need to be to use it.  Assuming I just want to host some files to share.

... for the more internet literate ( Read more... )

I wrote this to respond to Sponge and Casca on E-Sam but after reading it, I might prefer to post it here.  I am going to think about it more and it may yet see the light of E-Sam.  Maybe heavily edited.  Anyway, my friends you get the unedited spew.

So I inspired this latest dialog about knighthood and it has remained remarkably civil.  In among ( Read more... )

Well the GF and I broke up a little more than a week ago.  I don’t know whose fault it was but I do know I am way less stressed now than I was.  I can walk by a high ledge and not think about leaping off, for one thing.  Anyway, it’s only natural to wonder if there was anything I could have done better.  The good parts were awful good but they didn ( Read more... )

Introductory comments:
A squire of mine now knighted had an interesting view of knighthood that I have come to agree with.  Knighthood is both an award and an office.  It’s more than just an award because no other award is worn every day you play Amtgard.  More importantly no other award carries with it any behavioral expectation.  Offices on the ( Read more... )

Randall challenged me to list the problems with knighthood and look for a comprehensive solution. Well I am willing to consider that route although I am not willing to get bogged down in it and end up not doing anything. On that basis I will split this post between Randall’s challenge and revisions to my proposal of two days ago.

Please respond to ( Read more... )

So for a while now I have been worrying about Amtgard knightood.  I still believe our awards system including knighthood is an overal net good for the game but it has been clear to me for a long time that knightood has its negatives.  For many years I strove within the system to maximze the positives and minimize the negatives both for me and for ( Read more... )