update since Pennsic
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starmalachite, psywildfire, and shaunacarrick -- at present I'm not posting much, but that has been known to change at times.
I haven't posted much since Pennsic. Part of this is that I'm in the final stages of convalescing from having been sick at the War. I made a doctor's appointment almost as soon as I got back, but the actual appointment wasn't until yesterday. Apparently a small remnant of bronchitis is still lurking way down at the bottom of my lungs, so having already had azithromycin for this, I'm now on amoxicillin to finish it off. I've also been advised to stop taking the OTC decongestant (Sudafed PE) because it may be driving up my blood pressure. (I was advised to keep taking the Clari-clone antihistamine though.) The doc gave me a scrip for Flonase-equivalent; we'll see how well that works.
The Saturday after Pennsic was my parents' 45th wedding anniversary; they decided to have a family party, and we were *informed* that we would be there. Going wasn't a problem, though. They'd already agreed to put up enough other folks that there wasn't room formontuos and myself, and killernurd had to sleep in the basement. (Not that he hadn't done that before, many times even.) So we crashed with juergen and maziemaus and bunnyjadwiga and Becka. The party itself was very nice; none of my parents' siblings were there, but four of their cousins made it. My "middle" sister and our cousin Beth and I were our generation's representatives, and there were four families worth of killernurd's generation present -- and my "step-aunt" Patty (long story) informed me that KN's cousin Tracy (the only one of that generation older than him) now has two kids of her own! We got to video-call with wednesday1971 and her kids in the evening.
Sunday was lazy, low key and rainy; eventually we got Annabell packed up, started her up... and her wipers wouldn't work. Nothing we tried worked. I drove back from Easton to the far side of Allentown with no wipers. My dad and I tried everything we could think of... nothing worked. We had to getmontuos home for work the next morning, so my mom let us borrow her car to get home. Dad took Annabell to McNabb's on Monday; turns out the wiper motor had died. *sigh* It's a good thing she was a gift to us, as she's been nickel and diming us ever since. Went back to PA on Wednesday, ransomed Annabell, gave my mom's car back to her, and drove down to alphaggek's to give Cat back some stuff I'd borrowed for Pennsic; thence to Bowie for the usual Wednesday night gathering before heading home.
After all that, it was probably just as well that the following weekend was spent at home.
Like last year, I split my Labor Day weekend between an SCA event and TCEP. This year, the SCA event in question was Atlantian Coronation. I went over on Friday night to check in and help out at the Troll Gate; helped a half-deadfuzzface00 unload his vehicle when he arrived later. Saturday, we left early in order to get things ready early. Coronation went off with few (if any) visible hitches, though not without some scrambling behind the scenes... but that's *expected* for us techie types. severus_bracae got a Pearl during Valharic and Arielle's last court. siegfried1 and I blew a trumpet fanfare when Logan put on the crown. Then we got to see bronx_baroness crowned, and when the Coronation court was over we fanfared Their Majesties out. During the afternoon I got a chance to ask mistressrhi a familiar question, and was unhappy to get a familiar response. So there is some serious thinking being done about how to divide up a certain workload. Then there was Court, and then there was feast, where we ate with visgoth and stealthcomic which was a Great Coolness; it didn't hurt that jacylrin and Cora were also eating with us... so we got to tell stealthcomic about an amusing incident that happened while she was in Guatemala.
We retreated in some disarray after feast, askillernurd and asaia were headed all the way to Laurel that night. montuos and I chose to crash at home. It was a fun event, and if I tried to list all the friends I saw, I'd blow the length limit on posts. Heck, if I just limited it to LJers -- or even to just those on my friends list -- it would still look like the Biblical genealogy of Jesus. So if I didn't mention you above, it's nothing personal. Even looking back at what I've written it sounds so ... outline-ish. There was just so much stuff happening that I really couldn't take it all in, and I couldn't predict what would stick in my memory. And I have to think, if it's like that for me, how much more so it must be for bronx_baroness.
The same goes for TCEP, by the way -- I saw so many friends there that I really can't list them all here. We got a late start on Sunday, but we were there in time to play several games. I played Thurn and Taxis -- the second version, set in northern Germany -- for the first time, and actually won by a razor-thin margin. Ticket to Ride was next (I think), followed by a game of Carcassonne that lasted nearly three hours. That's what we get for playing with a set that includes nearly all the available expansions... even if we weren't playing with too many of the expansion variations. Following that we all went to our rooms and fell over.
I managed to get up around 9:30 or so; we got in about half a game of Counting Zzzzzs when we decided that the cards just didn't want to be nice to us just then, and threw it in. This was followed by a 6-player game of Power Grid, which went quickly since we were all very familiar with the game -- and a good thing too, as we had to end the game a turn early anyway in order to close down the convention. We went to the dead-dog lunch after that... and then went to Ludus in the evening.
The rest of this week has been mostly continued convalescence, with the aforementioned trip to the doctor (at last) and the picking up of perscriptions. I have been reminded that amoxicillin pills are an unsettling shade of pink.
And this afternoon I'll be heading out to the Philadelphia area. Tomorrow (Saturday) I'll be with the SCA demo at the Green Lane Scottish & Irish Festival.
starmalachite, psywildfire, and shaunacarrick -- at present I'm not posting much, but that has been known to change at times.I haven't posted much since Pennsic. Part of this is that I'm in the final stages of convalescing from having been sick at the War. I made a doctor's appointment almost as soon as I got back, but the actual appointment wasn't until yesterday. Apparently a small remnant of bronchitis is still lurking way down at the bottom of my lungs, so having already had azithromycin for this, I'm now on amoxicillin to finish it off. I've also been advised to stop taking the OTC decongestant (Sudafed PE) because it may be driving up my blood pressure. (I was advised to keep taking the Clari-clone antihistamine though.) The doc gave me a scrip for Flonase-equivalent; we'll see how well that works.
The Saturday after Pennsic was my parents' 45th wedding anniversary; they decided to have a family party, and we were *informed* that we would be there. Going wasn't a problem, though. They'd already agreed to put up enough other folks that there wasn't room for
montuos and myself, and killernurd had to sleep in the basement. (Not that he hadn't done that before, many times even.) So we crashed with juergen and maziemaus and bunnyjadwiga and Becka. The party itself was very nice; none of my parents' siblings were there, but four of their cousins made it. My "middle" sister and our cousin Beth and I were our generation's representatives, and there were four families worth of killernurd's generation present -- and my "step-aunt" Patty (long story) informed me that KN's cousin Tracy (the only one of that generation older than him) now has two kids of her own! We got to video-call with wednesday1971 and her kids in the evening.Sunday was lazy, low key and rainy; eventually we got Annabell packed up, started her up... and her wipers wouldn't work. Nothing we tried worked. I drove back from Easton to the far side of Allentown with no wipers. My dad and I tried everything we could think of... nothing worked. We had to get
montuos home for work the next morning, so my mom let us borrow her car to get home. Dad took Annabell to McNabb's on Monday; turns out the wiper motor had died. *sigh* It's a good thing she was a gift to us, as she's been nickel and diming us ever since. Went back to PA on Wednesday, ransomed Annabell, gave my mom's car back to her, and drove down to alphaggek's to give Cat back some stuff I'd borrowed for Pennsic; thence to Bowie for the usual Wednesday night gathering before heading home.After all that, it was probably just as well that the following weekend was spent at home.
Like last year, I split my Labor Day weekend between an SCA event and TCEP. This year, the SCA event in question was Atlantian Coronation. I went over on Friday night to check in and help out at the Troll Gate; helped a half-dead
fuzzface00 unload his vehicle when he arrived later. Saturday, we left early in order to get things ready early. Coronation went off with few (if any) visible hitches, though not without some scrambling behind the scenes... but that's *expected* for us techie types. severus_bracae got a Pearl during Valharic and Arielle's last court. siegfried1 and I blew a trumpet fanfare when Logan put on the crown. Then we got to see bronx_baroness crowned, and when the Coronation court was over we fanfared Their Majesties out. During the afternoon I got a chance to ask mistressrhi a familiar question, and was unhappy to get a familiar response. So there is some serious thinking being done about how to divide up a certain workload. Then there was Court, and then there was feast, where we ate with visgoth and stealthcomic which was a Great Coolness; it didn't hurt that jacylrin and Cora were also eating with us... so we got to tell stealthcomic about an amusing incident that happened while she was in Guatemala.We retreated in some disarray after feast, as
killernurd and asaia were headed all the way to Laurel that night. montuos and I chose to crash at home. It was a fun event, and if I tried to list all the friends I saw, I'd blow the length limit on posts. Heck, if I just limited it to LJers -- or even to just those on my friends list -- it would still look like the Biblical genealogy of Jesus. So if I didn't mention you above, it's nothing personal. Even looking back at what I've written it sounds so ... outline-ish. There was just so much stuff happening that I really couldn't take it all in, and I couldn't predict what would stick in my memory. And I have to think, if it's like that for me, how much more so it must be for bronx_baroness.The same goes for TCEP, by the way -- I saw so many friends there that I really can't list them all here. We got a late start on Sunday, but we were there in time to play several games. I played Thurn and Taxis -- the second version, set in northern Germany -- for the first time, and actually won by a razor-thin margin. Ticket to Ride was next (I think), followed by a game of Carcassonne that lasted nearly three hours. That's what we get for playing with a set that includes nearly all the available expansions... even if we weren't playing with too many of the expansion variations. Following that we all went to our rooms and fell over.
I managed to get up around 9:30 or so; we got in about half a game of Counting Zzzzzs when we decided that the cards just didn't want to be nice to us just then, and threw it in. This was followed by a 6-player game of Power Grid, which went quickly since we were all very familiar with the game -- and a good thing too, as we had to end the game a turn early anyway in order to close down the convention. We went to the dead-dog lunch after that... and then went to Ludus in the evening.
The rest of this week has been mostly continued convalescence, with the aforementioned trip to the doctor (at last) and the picking up of perscriptions. I have been reminded that amoxicillin pills are an unsettling shade of pink.
And this afternoon I'll be heading out to the Philadelphia area. Tomorrow (Saturday) I'll be with the SCA demo at the Green Lane Scottish & Irish Festival.
