The Knights Behind the Helmets (for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) peregrinus236)
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May. 5th, 2008 @ 03:13 pm
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Faire Animals
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Apr. 24th, 2008 @ 01:15 pm
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Sir Alf
April 2008 Raleighwood
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Photographs of chain mail and armour-clad knights slashing each other with long steel blades is all well and good (just let me know if you want more of those shots) but today it's time to take a look at the "softer" side of the Ren Faire.
In this case, softer means feathery, furry and the slightly muddled. :)
Want to see what I mean? ( Click on through to the other side... )
...Current Music: December Skies: Cowboy Junkies: Early 21st Century Blues |
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Hot Knight On Knight Action!
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Apr. 10th, 2008 @ 10:16 pm
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Knights in Combat
April 2008 Raleighwood, NC
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Well, apparently A Life Told Through Boardgames wasn't quite the audience-grabber I had hoped it would be. And since Smithfield the Painting Pig failed to make an appearance in the second week of the Ren Faire, I'll have to go with the lowest common demoninator here. Namely:
Hot Knight-on-Knight Action!!!
Real Armour, Live Steel, Full Contact Fighting!!!
That's right ladies and gentlemen, step right up and see all of the spectacle for yourself. See who gets maimed, who gets killed and who wishes they had been killed. It's all here people! And for just two bits, two shiny quarters, one half of a dollar, you can see it all for yourselves.
( Just click on through to the other side... )
...Current Music: This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)-Talking Heads-Best Of Talking Heads |
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An Introduction Through Twelve Games, with Lessons Learned and Relationships Lived
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Apr. 4th, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
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An Orchid is Not a Game Board... Yet
December 2007 Scotland
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I've been spending time each evening trolling through BoardGameGeek, a web site devoted to, you guessed it, board games.
I've played board games for about as long as I can remember. It's only been in the past year or two that I've started getting back into playing them on a somewhat regular basis. Reading through the site has been fun and very interesting. I now have an expanding list of games I'd like to get and/or play at some point and I've enjoyed seeing what expansion sets are available to some of the games I already have.
I had read a few people who had posted introductions for themselves to the site in terms of board games. I decided to give it a try myself. It was a good learning experience for me and I thought I'd share it with any of you who might care to ( click on through to the other side... )
...Current Music: Sonata in F major, K 239-Domenico Scarlatti-David Russel Plays Baroque Music |
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A Gen-U-Swine Celebrity!
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Mar. 30th, 2008 @ 07:48 pm
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Smithfield, the Painting Pig
March 2008 Raleighwood, NC
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We just finished the first weekend of the first show of the year.
How did it go, you might ask? Well, with a Genuswine Celebrity on site, in the personage of Smithfield, the Painting Pig, there was precious little the rest of us could possible do to compete for the attention of the patrons.
Curious? ( Click on through to the other side... )
...Current Music: Suite No. 5 in C Minor - Gigue-Yo-Yo Ma-Bach : Cello Suites (Ma 2) |
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A Quick Tale (Tra la la) from Scotland
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Mar. 26th, 2008 @ 03:28 pm
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Psychedelic Inverness Bus (Pitlochry)
December 2007 Scotland
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Yes, yes, I know... I've written up what, one whole story from our trip to Scotland this past December? Not a word about our day trip with the wonderful nalsa to one of Bonn's ancestrial homelands, nothing about the Edinburgh Hogmannay, not a peep about visiting a Scotish IKEA. So why this story and why now?
Well, actually, I'd forgotten I'd written most of this up in a Sticky note on my Mac laptop. I discovered it, quite by accident the other day, and thought (after some editing) it would make a relatively good entry. Besides, this weekend Bonn and I start a three-weekends-in-a-row show with the NC Rennaissance Faire. (And, yes, we'll be in costume and, yes, I'll be doing my man-knitting [and, no it still isn't finished yet] and, yes, I'll have my camera with me)
Besides, this was one of my favorite travel moments ever.
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...Current Music: Yo Yo Ma - Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104 |
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Easter Sundae
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Mar. 23rd, 2008 @ 01:14 pm
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Kinkos Self Portrait
March 2008 Cary, NC
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At the end of each Sunday Meeting at the Quaker Meeting House there is a call for "Joys or Concerns." Today I stood and said the following:
"Earlier this week my wife and I celebrated our 17th wedding anniversery. However, I think we still have to wait another three years before we can officially look back and smile at all of the people who said it wouldn't last."
It was the first time I'd ever spoken at any point during a meeting... and it was good to get a laugh.
For those of you who celebrate Easter, Happy Easter.
For those of you who don't, please feel free to join us in celebrating the Five Cats' Birthday. They were born 11 years ago on Easter Sunday, and we've just kept their birthday on Easter.
They recommend you celebrate with shrimp, salmon and crab.
(but only if they can share)
...Current Music: Before Sleep Comes-Luka Bloom-Before Sleep Comes |
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Friday Strike
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Mar. 20th, 2008 @ 08:04 pm
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Breaking the Long Silence
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Feb. 19th, 2008 @ 04:47 pm
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Psychedelic Loch Rannoch
December 2007 Kinnloch Rannoch, Scotland
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So, let's see... where was I?
Oh yes, prattling on and on about the latest trip to Scotland. I suppose the remainder of the trip could be summed up with a simple "Fun was had. We returned home safely."
Still, that doesn't really do justice to it all. Especially the wonderful day we spent with nalsa and the tremendous number of photographs taken that day.
Well then.
I'll quickly sum up the last month and a half by saying werk $ux, I've decided this isn't at all what I want to do with the rest of my life and I'm trying to remain upbeat while trying to think of something I would like to do with the rest of my life (and where I'd like to do it).
And we got sick.
The sickness started off on a fine Friday. By mid-day I was feeling a bit cold so I put my scarf on. An hour or so later I put my coat on. By the time I got home I took myself straight to bed and only managed to get up when Bonn reminded me we had to run some errands that afternoon and it was already 3pm.
As bad as that sounds Bonn, ever the competitive one, topped it by catching the same flu bug and adding in a spot of pneumonia as well.
One round of fancy, expensive medicine later we're both better, but we're still not back to 100%. And, personally, I can think of several much better ways of spending a week off. (Although sleeping has it's distinct advantages)
No new pictures to offer, either. I stopped bringing my cameras to work after I realized I wasn't getting a chance to get outside during the day -- so, of course, today a red tailed hawk lands in a tree outside my window and then decides to eat it's prey on the ground out front. I watched from my window as a grounds worker got within 10 feet of it before the hawk gave him a dirty look and he backed off (quickly).
*le sigh*
More to come.
...Current Music: Cantara: Dead Can Dance: Toward the Within |
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