Pre-November Roundup...
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kellan_the_tabbyYesterday was Poliudie, a rather small local event with a sort of Viking-Rus theme. I don't think we got more than maybe forty people but it was a lot of fun. I ran a consult table (well, more sort of a consult pew with sideboard) and got one actual submission and three sets of paperwork filled out with 'we'll get back to you later'. Dayboard was lavish, and the feast, of course, was wonderful - Candy's work. Da Boyfriend came to help her, in a tunic she made him, and honest to God I kept forgetting it was his first event. He went out to throw axes and by all reports came back in bouncing like I did the first time I got to shoot a handgonne.
Lewis placed second in the tourney - out of two. It'd be a lot more depressing, however, except that the other fighter was a knight recently moved in from AEthelmearc, and Lewis did beat him once in the (depressingly swift) best-out-of-three format, and felt that it could have gone either way. The guy (Eisenwulf, a good name for a local) and his wife (whose name I have forgotten) now live just east of Easton, and seemingly plan to be very active in Eisental. We're very pleased to have them.
She won the thrown weapons tourney, so there was some amusement at feast about these two people coming in out of nowhere and winning everything...'they're ringers', someone was heard to comment, and the near-unison reply was 'yes, but they're _our_ ringers'.
The archery tourney was won by our own Padraig, who also took another step in becoming an archery marshal. He can't wait until he finally gets the thing. Rupert the Unbalanced came in to run our archery and set up a very nice and fairly complicated scenario in addition to royal rounds, then left before we could feed him the feast. I hope someone thanked him; I hadn't brought my bow and didn't get a chance to watch any of the archery.
Mokurai and Anne Liese brought a Viking-era game called Kubb, which is sort of a relative of bocce and horseshoes. It involved throwing pieces of wood at other pieces of wood and is fairly complex, at least to my eyes; I didn't get a chance to play but it looked like quite a bit of fun. Several shire members are planning to make sets for themselves and I suspect this'll be quite the popular game around Eisental for the next while.
Carowyn showed up and got people making beads for several hours. I once again failed to actually get with her to try it, but one of these days...
Lewis and I realized partway through the feast that we had voice-mail on our cell phones, probably from Ellesbeth who'd gone to Crown Tourney, so we went outside and played 'can you hear me now' all over the field across from the church until Lewis finally got a signal and found out who'd won.
We had the dishes done and packed up, kitchen cleaned, bathrooms swept, trash dealt with and hall rearranged and vacuumed and we were offsite by ten-thirty. How often does _that_ happen...?
Actually slept pretty well last night. Most of the last week I've been wolf-napping, which is fine when you've a wolf's schedule but rather annoying when you need to get a certain amount of sleep within a certain amount of time.
Today Lewis may be going down to the Wreath meeting; he wanted to see how he felt first. I get to stay home, as Geno and Lisa left their van in front of our house so they didn't have to park it at the airport - I have to pick them up sometime nine-ish, and there's no way I'd be home if I went along. Aah, well, it'll give me the day to finish things up around the house and it's nice to be able to do Geno and Lisa a favour.
Still a bunch of stuff I want to do including learning how to deal with the batteries on the laptop, ideally before the NaNoWriMo get-togethers tomorrow, 'cos who knows if there's going to be plugs available...
I can't _wait_ to start. Can't wait. When I was working on the backstory stuff I kept almost going too far and writing into what will actually be the book, and having to stop myself and go back and put in earlier scenes to distract myself. I seem to have an odd style of writing - I'll write a bunch, then go back to edit (which is what one must usually avoid during NaNoWriMo, as you get hung up editing and stop writing) - but when I'd editing I'll add a lot, description, action, whole scenes. So it seems I'll have to find a way to balance writing and editing, so I can add stuff without getting too caught up in fixing what I already have down.
I've posted the backstory I did already (if you didn't see it, and wanted to, this is your last chance to get on that filter; just ask) and have gotten positive comments from two people who ought to know better than to blow smoke up my ass, so I'm feeling a bit better about my writing ability. We'll see, starting tonight (or tomorrow if I wuss out and don't stay up to start writing at midnight), how long _that_ lasts...
Lewis placed second in the tourney - out of two. It'd be a lot more depressing, however, except that the other fighter was a knight recently moved in from AEthelmearc, and Lewis did beat him once in the (depressingly swift) best-out-of-three format, and felt that it could have gone either way. The guy (Eisenwulf, a good name for a local) and his wife (whose name I have forgotten) now live just east of Easton, and seemingly plan to be very active in Eisental. We're very pleased to have them.
She won the thrown weapons tourney, so there was some amusement at feast about these two people coming in out of nowhere and winning everything...'they're ringers', someone was heard to comment, and the near-unison reply was 'yes, but they're _our_ ringers'.
The archery tourney was won by our own Padraig, who also took another step in becoming an archery marshal. He can't wait until he finally gets the thing. Rupert the Unbalanced came in to run our archery and set up a very nice and fairly complicated scenario in addition to royal rounds, then left before we could feed him the feast. I hope someone thanked him; I hadn't brought my bow and didn't get a chance to watch any of the archery.
Mokurai and Anne Liese brought a Viking-era game called Kubb, which is sort of a relative of bocce and horseshoes. It involved throwing pieces of wood at other pieces of wood and is fairly complex, at least to my eyes; I didn't get a chance to play but it looked like quite a bit of fun. Several shire members are planning to make sets for themselves and I suspect this'll be quite the popular game around Eisental for the next while.
Carowyn showed up and got people making beads for several hours. I once again failed to actually get with her to try it, but one of these days...
Lewis and I realized partway through the feast that we had voice-mail on our cell phones, probably from Ellesbeth who'd gone to Crown Tourney, so we went outside and played 'can you hear me now' all over the field across from the church until Lewis finally got a signal and found out who'd won.
We had the dishes done and packed up, kitchen cleaned, bathrooms swept, trash dealt with and hall rearranged and vacuumed and we were offsite by ten-thirty. How often does _that_ happen...?
Actually slept pretty well last night. Most of the last week I've been wolf-napping, which is fine when you've a wolf's schedule but rather annoying when you need to get a certain amount of sleep within a certain amount of time.
Today Lewis may be going down to the Wreath meeting; he wanted to see how he felt first. I get to stay home, as Geno and Lisa left their van in front of our house so they didn't have to park it at the airport - I have to pick them up sometime nine-ish, and there's no way I'd be home if I went along. Aah, well, it'll give me the day to finish things up around the house and it's nice to be able to do Geno and Lisa a favour.
Still a bunch of stuff I want to do including learning how to deal with the batteries on the laptop, ideally before the NaNoWriMo get-togethers tomorrow, 'cos who knows if there's going to be plugs available...
I can't _wait_ to start. Can't wait. When I was working on the backstory stuff I kept almost going too far and writing into what will actually be the book, and having to stop myself and go back and put in earlier scenes to distract myself. I seem to have an odd style of writing - I'll write a bunch, then go back to edit (which is what one must usually avoid during NaNoWriMo, as you get hung up editing and stop writing) - but when I'd editing I'll add a lot, description, action, whole scenes. So it seems I'll have to find a way to balance writing and editing, so I can add stuff without getting too caught up in fixing what I already have down.
I've posted the backstory I did already (if you didn't see it, and wanted to, this is your last chance to get on that filter; just ask) and have gotten positive comments from two people who ought to know better than to blow smoke up my ass, so I'm feeling a bit better about my writing ability. We'll see, starting tonight (or tomorrow if I wuss out and don't stay up to start writing at midnight), how long _that_ lasts...
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Date: 2004-11-01 10:54 am (UTC)Rosalinda. They were from out here. I hadn't even heard they'd moved. She has also gotten pretty decent at Illumination if I remember right. They're good folks. And active.
Oh, and I'm gonna try to get around to reading the backstory tonight. Was at the Pelican meeting all weekend with no net access. I'll try to have something wonder^H^H^H I mean constructive to say ^_^
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Date: 2004-11-01 10:57 am (UTC)Read it when you get to it, hun. And I'd prefer constructive to wonderful if there's a difference though I can't say I object to compliments either. :)
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Date: 2004-11-02 08:00 am (UTC)You shuold know better than to trust a computer to be telling you the complete truth ^_^