Yay, vw!!

Cool pics, JSw! What did you receive the crown (coronet??) for? And, what time period is Pennsic?

If it helps, I always take your advice like this. Or really, anyone who gives me advice. Even my doctor at times. It's just that you have those mad looking up and extrapolating skillz that bedazzle me.

Steph, Cass speaks for me! And also, THANK YOU because you rock!

Nicole, Scott's on that for his Lyme disease. What a complicated drug, in terms of what you have to avoid, and for how many hours.

Cindy, I'm quickly learning this. Plus, only my second day on it and for some reason it's giving me nasty headaches. Ick.

Oh, poor Plei. I hateses spiders! They look at me and they jump and on the rare occasion that I'm brave enough to actually kill one, I have a hard time falling asleep for awhile because I'm positive it's little friends witnessed the murder and are going to come after me in my sleep.

Back~ma to Cass and Beth! Interview~ma for vw! Plunder~ma for Sean!

JohnSweden! How was Pennsic?

Really good, vw. Good weather, fun fighting, got to see lots of friends. People doing interesting things, like the oasis-like cafe of YourInnerVagabond, the guerrilla arts projects in the marketplace and performers like the Tynkers and Wolgemut.

Cool pics, JSw! What did you receive the crown (coronet??) for? And, what time period is Pennsic?

Thanks, ChiKat. I was made a baron of the court of Edouard and Genevieve, King and Queen of Ealdormere. Court baron is a neat rank that is given at the discretion of the Crown. It comes with a shiny coronet and you have to attend no additional meetings or take up any new responsibilities. They steal your name though. People take the opportunity to call you Your Excellency at every turn.

What time period is Pennsic? It doesn't have a particular time period, other than the general one the SCA aims for, which is roughly, fall of Rome until 1600. Ostensibly, the middle ages and renaissance.

JSw, I have friends who just got back from Pennsic. Obviously, it's a HUGE event, and I also have no idea what group (clan? family?) they're a part of, but I think maybe my friends did something organize-y this year, like with the money/treasury. Maybe.

t edit I'm not expecting you to know them -- that's like finding out someone goes to NYU and asking "Oh, do you know so-and-so?" -- but I just felt like mentioning it. Basically, just sucking up bandwidth.

I KICK IN THE DOOR!

You find a Plutonium Dragon. He is quickly made Ancient and Enraged.

It's not looking good for Team Aims.

GWB is on tv right now with Clinton and GB.

Personally, Steph, I am using you as my doctor, and then when I go to a real one, I get to laugh and tell them "my other doctor SUCKS".

ION, I just got "caught" by my boss looking at my personal email. (2 seconds earlier, and it would have been LJ). Luckily she laughed and agreed that this place is deader than dead this week.

Nicole, insent a little while ago to your AOL account.

Cindy, I'm quickly learning this. Plus, only my second day on it and for some reason it's giving me nasty headaches. Ick.

Make sure you drink a lot of water with it. That probably has nothing to do with the headache, but still...

Scott's been going without cereal (he's very much a cereal for breakfast man) every morning, because you have to wait a few hours before and after taking it, to have dairy. He's got to be on it for three weeks at least, to treat the Lyme Disease infection. The other night, we got subs for supper. He got a Chicken Parmesean sub, and never thought about the cheese. When he went to get cookies and milk, and I said something about not wanting to have the dairy with it, because he would have to take his pill, soon. He said, "Oh, no. I took it right after supper."

I said, "And what'd you have for supper, again?"

We were on vacation (at the beach) when he first went on it, so we had to avoid the sun. Even putting SPF 45 on him, every hour or so, when we went to the beach, after 2:00pm, he got a little color. Then we were looking at the ingredients in the sunscreen, and wondering if the magnesium and salicylates in those were also going to cause an absorption problem. Ugh.

JSw, I have friends who just got back from Pennsic. Obviously, it's a HUGE event, and I also have no idea what group (clan? family?) they're a part of, but I think maybe my friends did something organize-y this year, like with the money/treasury. Maybe.

Cincinnati is the Barony of the Fenix (alarming I still know this stuff by heart when Ontario left the Midrealm 8 years ago), but your friends could be part of one of many different types of sub-organizations (SCA structure and culture is multi-faceted, for sure). Like you say, Tep, Pennsic is a big beast and volunteer work there is vital to the success of the event. Props to your friends for taking up some of that mantle.

It comes with a shiny coronet and you have to attend no additional meetings or take up any new responsibilities.

That is the best rank ever!! Shinies and no responsibilities. That rocks!

fall of Rome until 1600

I was wondering because I saw a lot of women sans corset. As a civil war reenactor, that sets me on my teeth. The women dressed as pre-1500-ish wouldn't wear one.