A busy Columbus Day . . .

It's been a four-day weekend for me.

I took Friday as a vacation day. (I need to use them by the end of the month) and did a bunch of erranding.

Two days at KWAR/KWCS rocked.

Today, since Alethea had to go to work, I committed myself to "getting stuff done."

I started working on this stuff around 9 a.m. (when it was still 30 degrees).

The bolded stuff it done.

The italicized stuff has been done since.

Clean out e-mail box

Catch up on LJ/facebook, etc.

Make auction deposit.

Write and mail auction check.

Send checks to Special Olympics.

Pay phone bill.

Doctor’s office for prescription

Go to Glen’s Pharmacy

Books back to library

Mail rebate

Go through other bills

Birka room?

Donation post.

KWAR/KCSS entry

Do dishes

Clean kitchen

Clean bathroom

Pack laundry

Clean stove

Put clothes away

Clean up headboard

Get recyclables together

Cook peppers, onions and potatoes

Make Portagee Stew Beef

Make Leek and Potato Soup

Make pumpkin-chocolate chip cookies

Shopping
 
Clean front of truck.

Send out requests for Polar Plunge donations
 

Yes, that was cookies, not people!

East Kingdom, Crown List is out!

It's here and has consorts

This is not in specific Order of Precedence yet.

The dukes, counts, etc., are all group together, but they are not ordered.

I will undoebtedly have some thoughts later.

 

KWAR/KWCSS post

I had an absolutely amazing time!

We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

We dodged all the hotel issues. Our room was fine, and since we were going on a budget, we had all or food in the room or handed to us by various folks who got takeout Saturday.

I was blessed to have three terrific classes. I had at least 15-18 in every class.

I felt I taught the "Teaching" class really well, and that's important.

The MoL class went well.

The highlight was the Interkingdom Anthropology class, although I would have liked a few more newcomers.

What was cool that we had so many people from multiple kingdoms. He had a fencer/fighter who had been in the Midrealm and is now Atlantian.

Diego represented long-time fencing in three kingdoms, and Rhi in two.

Seosamh has fenced in a variety of places, and there was a fella from Meridies, who knew a lot about the latest in Calontir.

I could not have been more pleased with the auction - $645, with $270 coming on alysten's offering to make a high-class fencing outfit.

It was neat bouncing from the ball to watching football to the parties, etc.

There was one moron who acted like an idiot, but those things happen.

I was also very pleased that alethea_eastrid and I shared a room with evilnicola and theresat, and they seemed to really, really have a good time together. At one point, they were hot-tubbing together at 6:30 a.m.

There was, of course, the game that involved Leonete getting dragged across the table. At one point, the king was "heppin' " and stepped on her hair, accidentally.

We had a nice drive back.

The drive down, well, "Welcome to Delaware" says it all.

Monday night: End of a great four-day weekend . . .

1. Back at it, helping people find jobs tomorrow. This is a four-day week, and I am taking next Monday off, so next week will be a four-day week, too. Yay.

2. My cooking tonight has left us with a huge pot of Portagee Stew Beef, a slightly smaller, but pretty solid amount of potato-leek soup and a couple of dozen pumpkin-chocolate chip cookies. And the house smells great!

3. I hit the local farm stand for the last time today. They are now closed for the season. I also went to the really good small-village store that has great meat. Nice day, but didn't get much above 40 degrees.

4. If you are in the SCA and planning to write someone in for a peerage or a high order of merit, please do it in the next couple of days!

5. But Doc? No beer pong?

By Scott Waldman
Albany Times Union

Your hands are washed and you're sneezing into your arm while you stay six feet away from anyone who looks sick. Now the H1N1 has another way to lay you low: No more beer pong.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is asking students to curb the sharing of cups after a group of students contracted the swine flu during a weekend of drinking games, according to Dr. Leslie Lawrence, medical director of the school's health center.

"While it might seem fun over the weekend, it will not be enjoyable when you and your friends are sick and missing class or midterm examinations," he wrote in a message distributed to RPI students and staff.

Thus far, RPI has seen one of the region's highest number of swine flu cases among its student population, with 21 cases of influenza, including about 14 that are active. Seven of those students are in campus isolation rooms and seven have returned home with their families. Several staff and faculty have also been experienced flu-like symptoms.

The latest cases were tied to social events and a school football game, after which students were playing the drinking games.

6. Sigh, The Red Sox season ended too quickly. Sigh.

7. If you ever want to see the countess again, hand over all the gooshy food!