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This is intriguing....
May. 6th, 2025 02:00 pmStar Wars got us thinking and then Mel brought up this article and huh...
Weekend was accomplishing of things....
Aug. 31st, 2020 08:19 amFriday I had the day off and that was lovely. The week had been horrid. So much stress but lots of stuff was accomplished by my team. I stayed off social media and read and worked on my shawl. I was working on laundry and realized that the dryer died. Now the dryer we bought used in December 2002. I looked up serial numbers at one point and it was 40 years old. So us having 15 years of use I'm not too suprised. I was actually going to buy one in March as we all got shut down cause it had been making really weird noises starting in December. I had wet laundry that I was able to take to Willa's to get in the dryer. They have carport laundry room like we do so no contact was easy but we did chat later when I got back to switch things out across the carport which was nice.
I bought a SpeedQueen with a 5 year warranty. They have all really good parts and no fancy electronic stuff. It gets delivered today. I could have gotten the match to our washer (LG) at Lowes but I supported our local appliance place who has always treated us well. Got the floor model discount and the govt employee discount on the delivery. It gets here Monday. I then took a quick trip to Tuesday Morning and Bev Mo cause I just needed to walk and live a bit. The stores were quiet even though it was Friday afternoon. I got some planner stickers and a gift at Tuesday Morning and then a really good bottle of Gin for myself, a very nice and strong bottle of Rye for Mel and St. Germaine since we were out. Then I stopped off at a consignment shop to look for antiques and found something but we need to figure out where it goes and it was more than we wanted to pay. Lol. Then it was home after stopping off at Willas. I made dinner of Korean beef which was tasty.
Saturday I woke up really sore and tired and cranky and read a thing online about motivation is not dedication. you need to be dedicated not motivated. So I dedicated myself to get my butt across the hall to do my HIIT class. We go back to in person classes next week with social distancing and masks. Unlike last time I'm okay with that. I'm scheduled for HIIT since my goals right now are to loose some weight not build muscle as much. My joints are telling me all about things and less stress on them would be nice and will be better for when I get back to strength. We as a family will try out me doing things since its at the same time as kung fu stuff and that means Benton is sitting at the dojo reading versus being home. We shall give it a few weeks to see.
Then I read and worked on my shawl and watched tv a lot. It was nice. The new Phineas and Ferb movie was hilarious and it was a good family time to watch it.
Sunday I got up early to drink coffee and finish a book before I got in on cleaning. The house has gotten...disturbing. The cat fur on the floor was becoming sentient. I'm not kidding. So I got the family room tidied up and then went to work on the front room. At the beginning of lockdown the cats had knocked mel's laurel scroll off the wall and damaged the frame. We got it back a few weeks later but never hung it back up. I had put his duchy up in its place and just let things pile up on the piano. Stuff for good will has sat for months by the door. Cardboard boxes have piled up and in general it looks like ass so I spent some time purging and going through the mail and putting things away and cleaning and then with Benton's help I got on the piano and rehung pictures so I could rearrange things and get everything on the walls. And it looks great. The next task will be to clean the other book cases by the Stereo since there piles of art for the boy's room which needs to be hung up. I got all of the goodwill stuff loaded into the car minus one thing from teh porch I need to load and then things will be fully done but it was a good effort. I also swept the tile floors and did kitten box maintenance. It was tiring but nice to have done that. And the house kinda breathed happy about it. So I guess it was also annoyed by the clutter.
We had a nummy chicken and rice soup from homemade stock and rotisserie chicken and it was soo good. It was also kind like fridge clean out soup and that just made it better.
Today I'm feeling good and looking forward to fixing a few things around the house and getting the new dryer a spin when it gets here.
I did finish a book this weekend.
36) The Kane Chronicles Book 1: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
because of the way the book is protrayed (recorded story versus written journal) I think I don't like the characters as much and things are really really fast paced...like way too fast. But the story and how it intertwines with the other books in the Rick Riordan universe is still not fully known. I have this series to read and then Benton and I have the Apollo Chronicles to start. There are 5 books but only 3 in paperback right now. I also get the new October Daye novel tomorrow but I will wait for the weekend.
37 in work) The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
I did have a really long chat with my apprentice on what the peerage really means. It was probably an overdue convo but getting a peerage means you have the skill set to now really learn your craft. Its not the end of the journey..its the beginning of a new journey. I think folks really need to see that. I wrote the following during my elevation and that I put in our Baby Laurel Box:
Thoughts on Masterworks:
Greetings to the newest to-be Laurel in the Kingdom!
Relax and don’t panic if they ask you to do a masterwork.
On being told that I was to receive my laurel and then being told to produce a masterwork for my laurelling I was in quite a tizzy. Here are my thoughts on a masterwork that I spoke at my laurelling when I produced an 11th Century Viking Chatelaine for HRM Asa.
Sincerely,
Posadnista Ianuk Raventhourne
Laurelled March 2007
HRM Eduard commanded that I produce a masterwork and as he predicted it began the pulling of hair and the gnashing of teeth. I asked advice of my favorite laurels. One proclaimed "What, don't you have a masterwork lying around?"
I was puzzled by this but it gave me pause. What had I made that I was most proud of? Being a scribe many of my favorite things hang upon other peoples walls. I know I would have to make something new but what?
What is a masterwork? Some believe that it is the best the artisan can do; the ultimate showing of their talents and while this is true its not the end all be all for the artisan, in my opinion. This masterwork is just a snap shot in time. I believe at this time on this day this is the best of my talents. I challenged myself with this piece, leveraging off old skills and applying them in a new medium. This is my masterwork for now at this time.
I bought a SpeedQueen with a 5 year warranty. They have all really good parts and no fancy electronic stuff. It gets delivered today. I could have gotten the match to our washer (LG) at Lowes but I supported our local appliance place who has always treated us well. Got the floor model discount and the govt employee discount on the delivery. It gets here Monday. I then took a quick trip to Tuesday Morning and Bev Mo cause I just needed to walk and live a bit. The stores were quiet even though it was Friday afternoon. I got some planner stickers and a gift at Tuesday Morning and then a really good bottle of Gin for myself, a very nice and strong bottle of Rye for Mel and St. Germaine since we were out. Then I stopped off at a consignment shop to look for antiques and found something but we need to figure out where it goes and it was more than we wanted to pay. Lol. Then it was home after stopping off at Willas. I made dinner of Korean beef which was tasty.
Saturday I woke up really sore and tired and cranky and read a thing online about motivation is not dedication. you need to be dedicated not motivated. So I dedicated myself to get my butt across the hall to do my HIIT class. We go back to in person classes next week with social distancing and masks. Unlike last time I'm okay with that. I'm scheduled for HIIT since my goals right now are to loose some weight not build muscle as much. My joints are telling me all about things and less stress on them would be nice and will be better for when I get back to strength. We as a family will try out me doing things since its at the same time as kung fu stuff and that means Benton is sitting at the dojo reading versus being home. We shall give it a few weeks to see.
Then I read and worked on my shawl and watched tv a lot. It was nice. The new Phineas and Ferb movie was hilarious and it was a good family time to watch it.
Sunday I got up early to drink coffee and finish a book before I got in on cleaning. The house has gotten...disturbing. The cat fur on the floor was becoming sentient. I'm not kidding. So I got the family room tidied up and then went to work on the front room. At the beginning of lockdown the cats had knocked mel's laurel scroll off the wall and damaged the frame. We got it back a few weeks later but never hung it back up. I had put his duchy up in its place and just let things pile up on the piano. Stuff for good will has sat for months by the door. Cardboard boxes have piled up and in general it looks like ass so I spent some time purging and going through the mail and putting things away and cleaning and then with Benton's help I got on the piano and rehung pictures so I could rearrange things and get everything on the walls. And it looks great. The next task will be to clean the other book cases by the Stereo since there piles of art for the boy's room which needs to be hung up. I got all of the goodwill stuff loaded into the car minus one thing from teh porch I need to load and then things will be fully done but it was a good effort. I also swept the tile floors and did kitten box maintenance. It was tiring but nice to have done that. And the house kinda breathed happy about it. So I guess it was also annoyed by the clutter.
We had a nummy chicken and rice soup from homemade stock and rotisserie chicken and it was soo good. It was also kind like fridge clean out soup and that just made it better.
Today I'm feeling good and looking forward to fixing a few things around the house and getting the new dryer a spin when it gets here.
I did finish a book this weekend.
36) The Kane Chronicles Book 1: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
because of the way the book is protrayed (recorded story versus written journal) I think I don't like the characters as much and things are really really fast paced...like way too fast. But the story and how it intertwines with the other books in the Rick Riordan universe is still not fully known. I have this series to read and then Benton and I have the Apollo Chronicles to start. There are 5 books but only 3 in paperback right now. I also get the new October Daye novel tomorrow but I will wait for the weekend.
37 in work) The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
I did have a really long chat with my apprentice on what the peerage really means. It was probably an overdue convo but getting a peerage means you have the skill set to now really learn your craft. Its not the end of the journey..its the beginning of a new journey. I think folks really need to see that. I wrote the following during my elevation and that I put in our Baby Laurel Box:
Thoughts on Masterworks:
Greetings to the newest to-be Laurel in the Kingdom!
Relax and don’t panic if they ask you to do a masterwork.
On being told that I was to receive my laurel and then being told to produce a masterwork for my laurelling I was in quite a tizzy. Here are my thoughts on a masterwork that I spoke at my laurelling when I produced an 11th Century Viking Chatelaine for HRM Asa.
Sincerely,
Posadnista Ianuk Raventhourne
Laurelled March 2007
HRM Eduard commanded that I produce a masterwork and as he predicted it began the pulling of hair and the gnashing of teeth. I asked advice of my favorite laurels. One proclaimed "What, don't you have a masterwork lying around?"
I was puzzled by this but it gave me pause. What had I made that I was most proud of? Being a scribe many of my favorite things hang upon other peoples walls. I know I would have to make something new but what?
What is a masterwork? Some believe that it is the best the artisan can do; the ultimate showing of their talents and while this is true its not the end all be all for the artisan, in my opinion. This masterwork is just a snap shot in time. I believe at this time on this day this is the best of my talents. I challenged myself with this piece, leveraging off old skills and applying them in a new medium. This is my masterwork for now at this time.
Thoughts on fan fic
Aug. 8th, 2019 02:01 pmSaw a quote yesterday on Twitter that I'm going to retype here with grammar and spelling not corrected:
Raveneil:
fanfiction is so wild cause im like...ugh im not in the mood to read a book....i'll just read an 82k word fic instead....
Brawltogethernow responds:
Look... To start a book...You have to make room in yourself for new characters and worlds. Do I look like I have the emotional energy for that? Do I look like I can trust like that right now? Just show me the things I already know pay good returns on my investment, except I also want to read something new so I guess they can be in a coffee shop this time.
This right there is correct. I think that is my bargaining chip in my brain right now. Keep with the mostly familiar and stay for the new way to see it. Its really a good view point.
Heck, I'm attempting to read a series set in the same world as another series I absolutely love and I just can't care about the protagonist....I got thrown in to them being them without the build up....last time we saw them in the books they were wee.....now they are 20s and I don't like this person at all...just can't continue. Everything else from this author in this world I've loved...I just can't with this series....but I feel bad cause I have the actual books...I can't just not read it. Weird huh? Arbitrary reading rules for myself.
Raveneil:
fanfiction is so wild cause im like...ugh im not in the mood to read a book....i'll just read an 82k word fic instead....
Brawltogethernow responds:
Look... To start a book...You have to make room in yourself for new characters and worlds. Do I look like I have the emotional energy for that? Do I look like I can trust like that right now? Just show me the things I already know pay good returns on my investment, except I also want to read something new so I guess they can be in a coffee shop this time.
This right there is correct. I think that is my bargaining chip in my brain right now. Keep with the mostly familiar and stay for the new way to see it. Its really a good view point.
Heck, I'm attempting to read a series set in the same world as another series I absolutely love and I just can't care about the protagonist....I got thrown in to them being them without the build up....last time we saw them in the books they were wee.....now they are 20s and I don't like this person at all...just can't continue. Everything else from this author in this world I've loved...I just can't with this series....but I feel bad cause I have the actual books...I can't just not read it. Weird huh? Arbitrary reading rules for myself.
Sentimental Attachment to Things......
Apr. 30th, 2014 11:25 amJust before Mel left to WA we had a conversation about what he had wanted of his dad's things and the two items that he had been looking for with fondness were his dad's pocket knife and his razor. He had come up with those items when he was visiting when his dad first got sick over a year ago, they had sentimental value to him and personal memories for Mel himself of his father using these objects everyday. Unfortunately, the razor, his dad's original gold plated safety razor he'd had since 1953, had gotten knocked into the trash during his first illness and thrown out by accident. The knife though my mel had found in his dad's tool shed in a box. When we came home from this last visit it was in his luggage. When my grandmother died I selected her Currier and Ives dishes and my granddad's old Fox 12 gauge shotgun. I had such fond memories of the dishes that I'd always wanted them. The gun was a thought for me to have something I knew no one else in my mom's family would want or use. Its not a fancy gun but he used it all of the time hunting when my mom was little for squirrels etc. It was probably bought in the 50s from Sears. At the time my mom thought I was off my gourd but my step dad packed the dishes up with some linens from my grandma's closet into an old hardsided suitcase and got a case for the gun. The linens I still use since my grandmother embroidered them and there was an ugly afghan in them that I used for years for camping and then put in Benton's room when he arrived and only found out that my mom had crocheted one thing in her life and it was that afghan which she gave her mom and never saw again. Odd coincindental items that have a lot of memories for me.
This rambling is going somewhere....when my parents divorced my mom and I moved into a tiny 1 bedroom, 1 illegal basement bedroom duplex. due to the size constraints and my grand piano, the couch and furniture got moved to my basement bedroom and I had a full apartment to myself except for a kitchen for almost all of high school. That couch had a lot of memories. Its been with me since 1992 and my parents bought it new in 1983 or so? I recovered from chickenpox on it in 1984. I sat on it when I almost tore my leg off and was stitched up in 1986. I think I'd kissed almost everyone of my boyfriends on it. I'd watched Forever Knight first broadcasts while seated on it. I did homework, listened to music, slept away on it for years. It spent a few months in storage in ND in the Lucas wharehouse. Was put in storage on the farm in Hudson, SD and then got moved to Tucson where it lived in 3 places I called home. My first pictures of Butterfly and Obsidian are on that couch. I have photos of friends in town for our wedding sitting on that couch in 2003. I was sitting on that couch when my mom called at 230am in June 2006 to tell us that my stepdad had passed away. I breastfed Benton for the first time at home on that couch. I have photos of Grandpa Mel and Grandma Ellen holding Benton on that couch. I have pictures of my mom holding Benton on that couch. Almost any item I'm knit or crocheted has been seen on that couch.
Its just so odd to think that I'm sentimental about a couch but with us getting a new to us one on Monday night I had this rush of thoughts and feelings about it and now feel sad to see it go even though its very, very worn out...31 years is a long time for a couch to live.
This rambling is going somewhere....when my parents divorced my mom and I moved into a tiny 1 bedroom, 1 illegal basement bedroom duplex. due to the size constraints and my grand piano, the couch and furniture got moved to my basement bedroom and I had a full apartment to myself except for a kitchen for almost all of high school. That couch had a lot of memories. Its been with me since 1992 and my parents bought it new in 1983 or so? I recovered from chickenpox on it in 1984. I sat on it when I almost tore my leg off and was stitched up in 1986. I think I'd kissed almost everyone of my boyfriends on it. I'd watched Forever Knight first broadcasts while seated on it. I did homework, listened to music, slept away on it for years. It spent a few months in storage in ND in the Lucas wharehouse. Was put in storage on the farm in Hudson, SD and then got moved to Tucson where it lived in 3 places I called home. My first pictures of Butterfly and Obsidian are on that couch. I have photos of friends in town for our wedding sitting on that couch in 2003. I was sitting on that couch when my mom called at 230am in June 2006 to tell us that my stepdad had passed away. I breastfed Benton for the first time at home on that couch. I have photos of Grandpa Mel and Grandma Ellen holding Benton on that couch. I have pictures of my mom holding Benton on that couch. Almost any item I'm knit or crocheted has been seen on that couch.
Its just so odd to think that I'm sentimental about a couch but with us getting a new to us one on Monday night I had this rush of thoughts and feelings about it and now feel sad to see it go even though its very, very worn out...31 years is a long time for a couch to live.
To create we must unmake as well....
Oct. 7th, 2012 09:18 pmThe last few weeks have been projects, projects, projects and nothing for me which makes it even more draining. I've lots a lot of sleep to these projects and mel's that even though I can see the end (sort of) in sight its hard none the less. I've been feeling very drained from all of the sickness in the house and I realized, rather esoterically that maybe I've been making too much stuff...putting too much of myself in things and its eating away at me bit by bit.
The scroll everyone will see on Saturday but the blanket most folks won't see unless the parents bring it out to events. Maestra Tatiana (Melissa) and her hubby Mike are expecting a boy in mid-November and I had an idea for a blanket and then went with it. Its not designed by me but I made some modifications and chose the colors to be bright and strong and not your average baby blanket. Its based on a quilt pattern and is 112 pieces crocheted all together. The finish work took me many late nights for over a week to accomplish and I was down to the wire on getting it blocked and having the acrylic yarn set but I was so happy with it. Here is a quick pic of it.
( Blanket! )
After being strung out on asthma meds for the last few days and staying up to finish it I was so toasted by the time the shower came around yesterday. So, I realized that today I needed to UNMAKE things. Now to unmake something does not mean to destroy it...rather get it back to where it started or get it out of the state of chaos its been in. I took time today to clean, to sweep, to put away to tidy and to organize multiple spaces in the house. The studio is usable (minus me wrapping xmas gifts), Benton's room is in top shape, the kitchen it clean and mostly tidy. The front room isn't too bad, still cluttered more than I like and in need of a good dusting but better. The vacuum's been run and things just look more tidy. I frogged two shawls. One of them I will start again with now a better understanding of the pattern. The other I will do the pattern in a larger yarn and larger hook but I UNMADE them and now they are just potential energy ready to start swinging in motion or start the build up to something greater. I swept the porch clean and got a circled candle burning to drive things out of the house. Get the chaos to settled and get back in line. Its cathartic, its zen, its necessary. Even though I'm now aching to make something I'm waiting until tomorrow. There are other things that are due that need my attention before I dive into my now stocked with two projects bag.
I've also been reading. I finished a 145k+ fan fic which I linked on my fic filter. I also finished #20 Small Favor which was completely new to me it seemed. I know I read it when it came out but I had completely forgotten things and when I've now read the most recent books in the series again...damn it Jim! You so set us up...OMG! Everything is obvious in the webs you wove! AGH!!! Thank you. Now I'm in Turn Coat and reading other fic.
So realize that if you keep putting your energy into making things you also have to unmake them to keep yourself sane. Mel and I sat and talked out next projects and how it will make the house better and easier and that made me happy. Keep moving forward.
The scroll everyone will see on Saturday but the blanket most folks won't see unless the parents bring it out to events. Maestra Tatiana (Melissa) and her hubby Mike are expecting a boy in mid-November and I had an idea for a blanket and then went with it. Its not designed by me but I made some modifications and chose the colors to be bright and strong and not your average baby blanket. Its based on a quilt pattern and is 112 pieces crocheted all together. The finish work took me many late nights for over a week to accomplish and I was down to the wire on getting it blocked and having the acrylic yarn set but I was so happy with it. Here is a quick pic of it.
( Blanket! )
After being strung out on asthma meds for the last few days and staying up to finish it I was so toasted by the time the shower came around yesterday. So, I realized that today I needed to UNMAKE things. Now to unmake something does not mean to destroy it...rather get it back to where it started or get it out of the state of chaos its been in. I took time today to clean, to sweep, to put away to tidy and to organize multiple spaces in the house. The studio is usable (minus me wrapping xmas gifts), Benton's room is in top shape, the kitchen it clean and mostly tidy. The front room isn't too bad, still cluttered more than I like and in need of a good dusting but better. The vacuum's been run and things just look more tidy. I frogged two shawls. One of them I will start again with now a better understanding of the pattern. The other I will do the pattern in a larger yarn and larger hook but I UNMADE them and now they are just potential energy ready to start swinging in motion or start the build up to something greater. I swept the porch clean and got a circled candle burning to drive things out of the house. Get the chaos to settled and get back in line. Its cathartic, its zen, its necessary. Even though I'm now aching to make something I'm waiting until tomorrow. There are other things that are due that need my attention before I dive into my now stocked with two projects bag.
I've also been reading. I finished a 145k+ fan fic which I linked on my fic filter. I also finished #20 Small Favor which was completely new to me it seemed. I know I read it when it came out but I had completely forgotten things and when I've now read the most recent books in the series again...damn it Jim! You so set us up...OMG! Everything is obvious in the webs you wove! AGH!!! Thank you. Now I'm in Turn Coat and reading other fic.
So realize that if you keep putting your energy into making things you also have to unmake them to keep yourself sane. Mel and I sat and talked out next projects and how it will make the house better and easier and that made me happy. Keep moving forward.
A lot weirdness going around in society today is about how you treat and communicate with people can really warp what is really the greater good for society in general. Details do matter but the big picture sometimes makes those little details not matter because the communication can get to a common conclusion without strife and anguish and without hurt feelings. Understanding your audience, constituents, friends and associates makes communication better.
Recently I was listening to the series on Tech Stuff Podcast (you can find it on iTunes as well) about the History of Hewlett Packard. The company was founded by two engineers and some of the things they did as a fledgling company on how to run a business were revolutionary in their ideas. Bonus's for jobs well done, health insurance etc. But one of the things they talked about on the podcast was Dave Packard's 11 Simple Rules. They really do rock. I think my favorite is when he speaks about what he calls "small details" which really aren't small. I think the biggest thing about it is that its about respect and the greater good.
Now most of the folks who are reading this know "The Rules". If you are not familiar here are The Rule.
The Rules
Rule #1: Don't Look Like Ass!
Rule #2: Don't make me look like ass! (Me= peer, crown, kingdom, company, coirker, business, crafting group etc)
Rule #3: Don't be THAT guy*!
Rule #4: BE that guy!
Pretty simple those rules...hard to live up to day by day but they are doable and manageable and I think Packard's Rules compliment and expand on the rules really well.
Think of the greater good, respect the people, pay attention to how you act and how you are perceived. Perception is everything. Don't poison the well.
*'guy' meaning non-specific gender person)
Recently I was listening to the series on Tech Stuff Podcast (you can find it on iTunes as well) about the History of Hewlett Packard. The company was founded by two engineers and some of the things they did as a fledgling company on how to run a business were revolutionary in their ideas. Bonus's for jobs well done, health insurance etc. But one of the things they talked about on the podcast was Dave Packard's 11 Simple Rules. They really do rock. I think my favorite is when he speaks about what he calls "small details" which really aren't small. I think the biggest thing about it is that its about respect and the greater good.
Now most of the folks who are reading this know "The Rules". If you are not familiar here are The Rule.
The Rules
Rule #1: Don't Look Like Ass!
Rule #2: Don't make me look like ass! (Me= peer, crown, kingdom, company, coirker, business, crafting group etc)
Rule #3: Don't be THAT guy*!
Rule #4: BE that guy!
Pretty simple those rules...hard to live up to day by day but they are doable and manageable and I think Packard's Rules compliment and expand on the rules really well.
Think of the greater good, respect the people, pay attention to how you act and how you are perceived. Perception is everything. Don't poison the well.
*'guy' meaning non-specific gender person)
Some Anecdotes:
Mistress Cecile once commented or taught a class or was part of a discussion on A&S classes about how titles and descriptions are important. If you want people to come to your class add the word "zombies" to it...everyone will come to a class about zombies or be curious of how zombies could relate to said class.
Dame Fiona once mused aloud at an A&S night "No one ever comes to my Stumpwork classes" and I replied "Fiona, what's stumpwork?" She looked aghast that I had no idea that stumpwork was a later period embroidery technique which she got her laurel for. I explained "I've seen your class listed, seen the description that the handout was $2 and that you would be teaching various techniques of stumpwork, but you never say what it is..." The very next collegium her class title stated: Beginning Stumpwork Embroidery and lo and behold she had a few students.
My first pennsic I took many, many classes. One was entitled "Beginning Supportive Spinning" with a class description that all materials would be provided, along with instruction on beginning supportive spinning. I show up to the class and take it and I had a lot of trouble with it since I didn't spin at all at the time (and I barely spin fiber now) and the teacher was agast that I would go to a class on spinning with out knowing how. I explained that "well, the title said beginning supportive spinning and I figured that was the place to start to learn to spin" She commented that she hadn't even thought about that and realized she needed to put the caveat that "spinning skills required" in the description.
So, why Ianuk are you talking about this?
Well, our most wonderful Dame Jennifer (drink!) aka![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
callas_and_ivy has now for the second year organized all of the A&S classes for the war. She was persistent in bugging previous teachers, putting out the call for classes and instructors. When she sent out our schedule she noted that "class descriptions would not appear in the gatebook". She sent us a link of the schedule/descriptions as you can go to here and the same google doc is linked on the Estrella War Website as well.
So, you can sit and read at your leisure before the war and figure out what classes you want to take and make your schedule. There are plenty of classes to choose from and many look enticing. There are a few though that without reading the descriptions that people will be shaking there heads at. Such as "Hardanger 101", "Salwar", "Beginner Taiko", "Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble". I know what the first 3 are: A Norwegian Embroidery Technique, Middle Eastern Pants and Japanese Drums but the last one confused me until I read the description...its a kids class of mad science messy experiments, slime etc.
Now imagine, that you didn't have time before war to plan...you get to site in the dark, set up and in the dark, sleep a few hours and get up and you find after you get back from your morning troll duty over lunch that you can't quite figure out what to take since you're not sure what some of these classes are all about since only the schedule is printed in the gatebook.
Now, a very A&S minded person would probably head down to the A&S area and see what was up and see the print outs of the descriptions.
On the other hand a person who might be newer or might only now be getting into going to classes might be intimidated, uncertain of what to do and might just decided that since they couldn't figure it out they would just go watch the battles, go shopping or take a nap.
Well is that bad? In my example, the person had a late night anyway, a nap might be good but what does that mean to the person who is teaching the class? 1)They might not get the students they want i.e. people who want to learn what they are teaching; 2)They might not get any students at all and all of the effort they put into their handouts, time and travel to the event might be wasted, which could 3)spiral into that person never wanting to teach since no one came... That would be sad. For the students and for the teacher.
Now, we haven't been told why they aren't being printed in the gate book...I'm going to assume its a money thing. If it is a money thing, I'm sure we could have gotten people in the A&S community, a head of time, to print things out personally to bring to war to have at troll for folks to pick up. Other wars have a separate book just for classes. We haven't been told though why, so that is as far as I can conjecture and postulate.
So, I want to make sure everyone who reads this or forwards it sends as many people as possible to the link to the class lists and descriptions before war. And at war any who hear someone complain in their camp about not knowing what a class is about, hears murmurs in merchants to the same effect to send people to the A&S tents for information. I want people at my classes, Countess Cecilia wants people at her classes, Lord Richard wants people to attend his first class (A Sharp Tool is a Joy to Hold with ZOMBIES) and Dame Jennifer wants folks to come and enjoy the collegium.
Mistress Cecile once commented or taught a class or was part of a discussion on A&S classes about how titles and descriptions are important. If you want people to come to your class add the word "zombies" to it...everyone will come to a class about zombies or be curious of how zombies could relate to said class.
Dame Fiona once mused aloud at an A&S night "No one ever comes to my Stumpwork classes" and I replied "Fiona, what's stumpwork?" She looked aghast that I had no idea that stumpwork was a later period embroidery technique which she got her laurel for. I explained "I've seen your class listed, seen the description that the handout was $2 and that you would be teaching various techniques of stumpwork, but you never say what it is..." The very next collegium her class title stated: Beginning Stumpwork Embroidery and lo and behold she had a few students.
My first pennsic I took many, many classes. One was entitled "Beginning Supportive Spinning" with a class description that all materials would be provided, along with instruction on beginning supportive spinning. I show up to the class and take it and I had a lot of trouble with it since I didn't spin at all at the time (and I barely spin fiber now) and the teacher was agast that I would go to a class on spinning with out knowing how. I explained that "well, the title said beginning supportive spinning and I figured that was the place to start to learn to spin" She commented that she hadn't even thought about that and realized she needed to put the caveat that "spinning skills required" in the description.
So, why Ianuk are you talking about this?
Well, our most wonderful Dame Jennifer (drink!) aka
callas_and_ivy has now for the second year organized all of the A&S classes for the war. She was persistent in bugging previous teachers, putting out the call for classes and instructors. When she sent out our schedule she noted that "class descriptions would not appear in the gatebook". She sent us a link of the schedule/descriptions as you can go to here and the same google doc is linked on the Estrella War Website as well. So, you can sit and read at your leisure before the war and figure out what classes you want to take and make your schedule. There are plenty of classes to choose from and many look enticing. There are a few though that without reading the descriptions that people will be shaking there heads at. Such as "Hardanger 101", "Salwar", "Beginner Taiko", "Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble". I know what the first 3 are: A Norwegian Embroidery Technique, Middle Eastern Pants and Japanese Drums but the last one confused me until I read the description...its a kids class of mad science messy experiments, slime etc.
Now imagine, that you didn't have time before war to plan...you get to site in the dark, set up and in the dark, sleep a few hours and get up and you find after you get back from your morning troll duty over lunch that you can't quite figure out what to take since you're not sure what some of these classes are all about since only the schedule is printed in the gatebook.
Now, a very A&S minded person would probably head down to the A&S area and see what was up and see the print outs of the descriptions.
On the other hand a person who might be newer or might only now be getting into going to classes might be intimidated, uncertain of what to do and might just decided that since they couldn't figure it out they would just go watch the battles, go shopping or take a nap.
Well is that bad? In my example, the person had a late night anyway, a nap might be good but what does that mean to the person who is teaching the class? 1)They might not get the students they want i.e. people who want to learn what they are teaching; 2)They might not get any students at all and all of the effort they put into their handouts, time and travel to the event might be wasted, which could 3)spiral into that person never wanting to teach since no one came... That would be sad. For the students and for the teacher.
Now, we haven't been told why they aren't being printed in the gate book...I'm going to assume its a money thing. If it is a money thing, I'm sure we could have gotten people in the A&S community, a head of time, to print things out personally to bring to war to have at troll for folks to pick up. Other wars have a separate book just for classes. We haven't been told though why, so that is as far as I can conjecture and postulate.
So, I want to make sure everyone who reads this or forwards it sends as many people as possible to the link to the class lists and descriptions before war. And at war any who hear someone complain in their camp about not knowing what a class is about, hears murmurs in merchants to the same effect to send people to the A&S tents for information. I want people at my classes, Countess Cecilia wants people at her classes, Lord Richard wants people to attend his first class (A Sharp Tool is a Joy to Hold with ZOMBIES) and Dame Jennifer wants folks to come and enjoy the collegium.
Words...interesting...
Jan. 20th, 2010 01:20 pmHow words change definition is very interesting or how words can have wildly different definitions is very fascinating to me. Here is an interesting one. I've bolded the definitions that seem very, very juxtaposed. From Merriam-Webster Online
Main Entry: 1jar·gon
Pronunciation: \ˈjär-gən, -ˌgän\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French jargun, gargon
Date: 14th century
1 a : confused unintelligible language b : a strange, outlandish, or barbarous language or dialect c : a hybrid language or dialect simplified in vocabulary and grammar and used for communication between peoples of different speech
2 : the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group
3 : obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words
— jar·gony \-gə-nē, -ˌgä-nē\ adjective
Main Entry: 1jar·gon
Pronunciation: \ˈjär-gən, -ˌgän\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French jargun, gargon
Date: 14th century
1 a : confused unintelligible language b : a strange, outlandish, or barbarous language or dialect c : a hybrid language or dialect simplified in vocabulary and grammar and used for communication between peoples of different speech
2 : the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group
3 : obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words
— jar·gony \-gə-nē, -ˌgä-nē\ adjective
Me, the Gym and the papework..
Jan. 19th, 2010 10:34 amWell, I made it to the gym yesterday with Uber Awesome Chuck, the thermal guy. Had a good time and I think finally, after all of the years of not feeling anything but suck from a work out, that the biking has finally gotten my body used to the endorphins and I felt great. I didn't do a lot...I have not lifted anything but cats of late but I did do chest and triceps. Chuck said my form was good and I took things slow and took special care at my breathing correctly. I ran through the sets twice and then hit a crappy stairmaster for a about 10 mins. I had to stop then cause it was so not smooth it was jarring. I'll try to get time on a bike or elliptical next time for longer time.
I got home with just enough time to cook myself a dinner before music folks started arriving. Got through practice...I didn't have a good night and I still need to practice more. The parts where I know the words well, I know the notes well...the ones I don't I get lost. More practice this week with a duo with the BFF on friday to get things solidified should do me good. Then it was time for scribble where I was kinda random. One scroll painting is at the "ugly stage" and I started another one where I'm not happy with the color placement, so I stopped and got out my knitting. I think I was trying to do too many different things in one evening and I was dropping the clutch. Got home a bit early, hit the showers and almost got to the end of my book. I slept okay. I kept getting up to hit the bathroom and then Obsidian was horking up stuff at 4am. Poor girl, will be getting some oil on her food tonight.
Today has been a cluster of odd. I did a huge amount of work on one change notice last year with a vendor and then I never put it into our system for approval. DOH! So, I've been working on that, meeting a new supplier engineer and getting caught back up.
Still no update fromcowboy_r if he got out of the hospital yet...but I'm betting if he did he's sleeping since he didn't do much of that there.
I got home with just enough time to cook myself a dinner before music folks started arriving. Got through practice...I didn't have a good night and I still need to practice more. The parts where I know the words well, I know the notes well...the ones I don't I get lost. More practice this week with a duo with the BFF on friday to get things solidified should do me good. Then it was time for scribble where I was kinda random. One scroll painting is at the "ugly stage" and I started another one where I'm not happy with the color placement, so I stopped and got out my knitting. I think I was trying to do too many different things in one evening and I was dropping the clutch. Got home a bit early, hit the showers and almost got to the end of my book. I slept okay. I kept getting up to hit the bathroom and then Obsidian was horking up stuff at 4am. Poor girl, will be getting some oil on her food tonight.
Today has been a cluster of odd. I did a huge amount of work on one change notice last year with a vendor and then I never put it into our system for approval. DOH! So, I've been working on that, meeting a new supplier engineer and getting caught back up.
Still no update from
cowboy_r if he got out of the hospital yet...but I'm betting if he did he's sleeping since he didn't do much of that there.My google fu is failing...
Nov. 6th, 2009 12:01 pmI really, really want to watch the circa 1996 Levi Commercial with the Vampires. Its the one where the commercial starts by showing old time photographs of the same set of folks in their Levi's and go through to then modern times and states "Levi's jeans for Vampires since 18xx" Anybody seen this of late on the internets?
There is a zen of knitting where you have to unknit to knit something. Many a crafter has talked about that on ravelry or in podcasts I listen to and I've never understood it really. Its a good theory, the balance of power in things is tricky. Its a balance of energy really. So, tonight I worked on things to for my new pattern and figured out the edging. For almost a year my old first real court garb had been sitting in the mending basket. It was the first fabric I saved for and it was only $2 a yard dublin linen that I got at walmart of all places. I remember feeling so odd buying ten yards and my friend nancy helped me make this awesome dress that I beaded the bodice on during my summer "vacation" with my grandma in St Louis that year. I wore it many times in the past and I'm betting I probably fit back into it if it wasn't in pieces. Last year I figured I'd never wear it and tore the 6 yards of fabric of skirt off of the bodice and its sat. Tonight, I cut up some of the gores to make trim for my new dress and it was enlightening and now I understand the zen of making things...you first have to unmake to make something new.
Well, I am feeling better and I got a good and hearty (at least compared to the last few days) breakfast and lunch. Woot!
Also found out that a few other coirkers got the "ick" from the food we had at the dept meeting on Tuesday. Aha!
Also, met a guy who used to work at RC in Cedar Rapids who knew MJ my old college roomy. Course I've lost contact with MJ and due to her common name its really hard to find her in google but eh. All good. I guess.
Also found out that a few other coirkers got the "ick" from the food we had at the dept meeting on Tuesday. Aha!
Also, met a guy who used to work at RC in Cedar Rapids who knew MJ my old college roomy. Course I've lost contact with MJ and due to her common name its really hard to find her in google but eh. All good. I guess.
Random Access Memory
Apr. 14th, 2009 01:33 pmPeople, they make society and they break society.
My sony car discman is finally starting to give up the ghost after 16 years of use. I shall miss you little happy music box.
Letting loose of some of the issues with a co-irker brought to light other things that were far more happy.
I'm in luv with the Brit slang word "lurgy"...cause that is how I've been feeling of late...very, very appropriate.
The internets are our own personal view of Sick, Sad World, now with more schadenfreude.
Music makes writing boring reports much more manageable...why have I been not doing that?
Tummy is better and that makes me feel better...
The Laundry Hydra is calling me from home...gah.
My sony car discman is finally starting to give up the ghost after 16 years of use. I shall miss you little happy music box.
Letting loose of some of the issues with a co-irker brought to light other things that were far more happy.
I'm in luv with the Brit slang word "lurgy"...cause that is how I've been feeling of late...very, very appropriate.
The internets are our own personal view of Sick, Sad World, now with more schadenfreude.
Music makes writing boring reports much more manageable...why have I been not doing that?
Tummy is better and that makes me feel better...
The Laundry Hydra is calling me from home...gah.
So, I know when I'm too tired to drive because I can't operate my stickshift at all well....so I wonder..is the increase in drunk/tired drivers from people driving easy automatics versus a manual transmission? I wonder....
Course if we had cool things like the "scootermen" in London...maybe we wouldn't have so many issues.
Course if we had cool things like the "scootermen" in London...maybe we wouldn't have so many issues.
