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September 30, 2003 - 11:43 a.m. Eh � what can I say it really has been awhile since I have update?� Work has been busy, SCA has been busy, Fire Department has been busy � make for life has been busy.� Lets see if I can quickly get people up to speed. The Sire of Raven�s Cove is far, but filled with very nice people.� Academie of the Rapier was a lot of fun.� I got to go down with Roland and Thjora (no driving for me yippee!) which was a fun and chatter filled drive, stay with Alejandro and Benefshe who have a lovely home and spend time here and there with some of the knitting crazies (I am not an addict � I could stop at any time if I wanted to.� I just don�t happen to want to) Hurricane Isobel was really not terrible in my part of the world.� No power loss, but we did have to boil water for several days.� Given other people�s stories that was merely an incidental inconvenience that I feel guilty for even mentioning.� I ran a 24 hour shift at the station that night and Friday day.� Spent many hours of Friday� driving about looking for downed power lines, trees in the road and flooded out areas.�� Happily I can report that my muscles are entirely recovered from my adventures with fire axe and tree removal.� Oh did I ache. Far worse than the hurricane was the flooding that occurred the following Monday � caused by a simple rainstorm.� As it happens I was overnight at the Fire Station for that one too as the dept was short handed.� Large portions of US 15 just north of the Coronation site were flooded out, and was closed for a few days.� When it reopened there was a 6 mile strtch that needed to be remarked as the water had removed the lane markings.� Over a half of a mile had to be milled and repaved as there was nearly an inch of the surface REMOVED from the action of the overflowing Goose Creek.� Hell of a creek.� There is nothing like waking up to an all hands emergency page in the middle of the night and flipping on the station radio to hear �boat 17� marking up to remove people from a 2nd story window.� Wow.� This too is now better. This most recent weekend was Knight of the Heart.� It was very well put together and quite nicely done.� This event achieved something that as the SCA grows seems to be harder and harder and rare.� A theme.� The entirety of the day centered around a concept and drew the event out of the cookie cutter mould that we fall into so often and brought all to a different place.� Some people liked the place, some people less so.� I know that I enjoyed the hell out of it.� Ragnarr did much to steal the show as it were for portions of the day.� Let me explain, no too long � let me sum up.� King Ragnarr did not think going and challenging members of the populace would be proper so he did what any good King (or medieval prince) would do � he came in disguise.� Now Theo was all prepared with research and history to provide him with a historical disguise, but no.� Ragnarr was nowhere to be found � but �Duke Anton� was there, accompanied by squires.� To say that I need therapy, to say that I laughed to hard I nearly cried, would not describe fully the entertainment factor found by that! Vlad has a hot tub.� This is a good thing. Sunday we went to Ikea and bought more bookcases.� All my homeless books can now be put away and shelved � look there are some small gaps here and there � I must need more books now!� Ikea is a lovely place and I got to wander to hearts content with my Ragnarr all morning long. Sunday the Fire Station was short handed again (noticing a trend) so
I got called in.� I never actually made it to the station before tones
went off � I met the ambu at the scene and then proceeded to run 3 calls
in rapid sucession.� Mind you there are entire days that there aren�t
three calls, and Sunday here we were with 3 in a four block area in an
hour in a half.� Very busy is followed by very boring � I washed and
waxed my car.� Got home to find that Narr had assembled the bookcases.�
How cool is that!
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