Been busy. Got a job, but the job is opposite when my wife works, so, there just is no down time for anything, much less anything fun. But, things are cool I guess when you're job looks like this-
Working weekends, and all week has really never been so much fun! Been scarce everywhere else and haven't been able to do much SCA and missed Pennsic, but it's sting was a lot less getting to put one's self to the test in the tiltyard every weekend.
Cheers all!
Lion of Irnham - Martial undertaking should never be a lowest common denominator endeavor.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle
What's even cooler is that the white horse is a rescue horse. She was very badly treated and went from being rescued to jousting in a matter of days, and did very well. She's much happier now.
The manufacture of excellent cole slaw is indeed a rare gift and noble pursuit!
Looks awesome, amigo!
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I honestly don't know. I'm glad you got work but I've always felt (and said) that I do this for a hobby, and if it turned into a job I wouldn't enjoy it nearly as much. I've heard of people who made armor and got hired at Renfairs to make armor and they even got to sell the armor they were getting paid to make, and now they do it five or six days a week and don't have a hobby any more.
LOGOS wrote:I missed this year because I did the Chicago to Mackinac race instead. Leo still wins though
Now THAT makes me jealous . I used to race on Lake Ontario out of Port Dalhousie in St. Catharines, ON, in the early 80s with someone who had done that race. It's been a lot of years (at least 27) and I still miss sailing...
Nope, it's a wrist wrap, no cut. The wrist really takes a pounding in the tilt. If I want to write in five years it's a must.
I love this job. I would like to say that such things as the SCA, jousting, WMA, Iaido, and so many more are a "hobby" but I can't. They are an obsession. I am obsessed with both martial study, and the study of martial society and the people in those times that lived them. I am just lucky that I am able to follow the old adage, do what you love, and you will never work a day in your life. Right now, and in the past, I have done just this by being a knight/jouster (and I've had long times of dread and menial jobs I've hated but had to do them to survive too) and it has never dulled my love of the times and places and people of the martial cultures. Sure, I won't be rolling in the dough from a job like this, but I also get as close as I can to the men I emulate with such employ. In a way, I am learning even more about how these men lived, felt and survived by having a job like this. Now if I only won the horse and armor? Then the dough would be rolling in!
Lion of Irnham - Martial undertaking should never be a lowest common denominator endeavor.
Caitriona Douglas wrote:What's even cooler is that the white horse is a rescue horse. She was very badly treated and went from being rescued to jousting in a matter of days, and did very well. She's much happier now.
That does make it even better. Exponentially. Not only following an ancient and honourable path, but saving the animals as well. Even for one used to using words, it is difficult for me to express how good that makes me feel.
Donal Mac Ruiseart O. Pel
Squire to Viscount Tojenareum Grenville (TJ)
Be without fear in the face of thine enemies
Stand brave and upright that the Lord may love thee
Speak the truth always even if it means thy death
Protect the helpless and do no wrong
. I used to race on Lake Ontario out of Port Dalhousie in St. Catharines, ON, in the early 80s with someone who had done that race. It's been a lot of years (at least 27) and I still miss sailing...
