Wednesday evening: Home from work . . .

First of all, please understand I love my job.

It's challenging, and it's something I am good at.

I need to use old skills, and I am developing new skills.

I have guidance, and I also have a good deal of autonomy.

I have worked 33 hours this week, but then again the publisher and his wife are at Macchu Pichu, so I expected a long week.

The opportunities are there to help people, and the papers have been able to do that. I know for positive that some of the benefit parties held locally have done better than they would have without our stories.

For those who don't know, I am the managing editor of a group of six or so newspapers on the Vermont-NY border. I am never sure, because fo some of our monthly papers.

We have two papers that we charge for. One covers the town of Granville and nearby places, and the other does Whitehall and nearby places. We have a free "News you can use," featured-oriented, not hard news, paper in the lakes region of western Vermont. We also have some free shoppers. My focus is on the first three papers.

I say all this, because I have been whining a little about how hard work is. But I am making good money for up her (and for the industry), and I am happy just to have a job anyway.

Things are a little tight right now because of taxes, etc., but the future looks good.

More to come.

On the SCA front . . .

Other than the Internet and Beowulf -- each of which can tear an arm off -- I have not done much in terms of SCA this year. (Well, Birka and the local 12th Night were a long time ago).

That will change in May. We do a big benefit at the local benefit Water Walk on the day or Crown, we have Arts & Arrows a week later, and I am teaching five or six classes, and two weeks later in War of the Roses, where I will also be teaching. (Sorry, Ealdormere and Atlantia).

That means a lot of work in the next couple of weeks, putting ideas down on paper.

I am also getting busy as the local chatelaine, which is always fun.

At this point, I do dearly hope to be at Pennsic. We will be hosting Northern Region War Camp on Fourth of July Weekend again.

More to come.