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fighting, cooking, organizing files
Jul. 9th, 2012 01:59 amThis morning started out with fighter practice. The Kingdom's newest knight is up visiting, since we have an event starting on Wednesday, and he grew up up here, so he and his wife are also visiting family and friends as part of their summer holiday. This is the first time he and I have had a chance to fight, and it was much fun. He is similar in build to my own knight (or, more likely, the build my knight had back when I lived with him, which is way more years than I think it is), and his fighting style is similar, too, which helped me be instantly comfortable with him. He tells me that despite my many years off of fighting it is clear that I know how to throw the blows and move smoothly, that what I need to work on is not so much how as when--get the timing down. It was just he, I, and our home-grown viscount in armour today. Two viscounts and a viscountess, and there was no doubt which of us got the title by inspiration, and which by swinging the stick themselves. Despite my lack of prowess I had lots of fun, and I find myself wanting to train more, and see if, perchance, I can make ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lord_kjar a viscount by inspiration. It is a good goal. Could take a while, not only because of the vast improvements I need to do, but also because the coronet tournaments here are only once in every nine months.
After training I came home and spent the day in the kitchen making:
* 16 pasties with veg, chickpea, and seeds as filling, all of which have been frozen, some of which will come with us to the event this week, and the rest will await other occasions we need food but don't have time to cook.
* one pie using the rest of that filling (because I was tired of rolling out the pasties at that point) half of which we ate for dinner tonight, the rest is in the fridge for tomorrow.
* two cakes--one beetroot, and one chocolate beetroot--I don't like chocolate myself, so I split the batter in half, and put cocoa powder in one and left the other plain so I can have some. That one got sliced and most of it is in the freezer for when we want snacks later. The chocolate one was left out to share with people coming over to sew tomorrow.
* 12 raspberry filled bread rolls, all of which were frozen to take to the event this week.
Once that was done I took my work computer back to uni, since I had some printing to do. I decided that since we have the event this week and this weekend, and next week is back to work that today was a good day to return that computer to my office. While I was there I discovered that the thin sections I ordered last month had arrived, so I spent an hour organizing them and emailing my boss to tell him that this four thin sections were here when he wants them.
After that I made time to read another chapter in The Hobbit tolord_kjar (we just managed to escape prison in barrels) before sitting down to my personal computer to organize files on my phone. Years ago a friend in Tasmania gave me a ton of SCA dance music files, and when I got this phone I copied them onto it, thinking that it could be handy if we ever want to dance on the spur of the moment I would have the music. However, those files were *not* organized, so finding a specific dance wasn't much fun. The copy of those files on my phone are now organized. One folder for Arbeau dances I know, one for Playford dances I know, one for other dances I know, and one folder for "dances I may not know". That last folder has some tunes I have never heard of, but it also has others that I am certain I have danced, but I don't know well enough to teach it without looking up the steps. Once I had them in folders I also went through and edited out the leading numbers from the file names. Now it is much easier to find the dance I am looking for, since it is now possible to sort the folders in alphabetical order.
but after all that (and typing this) it is now 02:00, and I still need to read my 1000 words of geology and do my yoga, so I had best close this here. Tomorrow we are hosting a sewing day here, and Tuesday we head to site to do set up (the fair opens to the public on Wednesday).
lord_kjar a viscount by inspiration. It is a good goal. Could take a while, not only because of the vast improvements I need to do, but also because the coronet tournaments here are only once in every nine months.After training I came home and spent the day in the kitchen making:
* 16 pasties with veg, chickpea, and seeds as filling, all of which have been frozen, some of which will come with us to the event this week, and the rest will await other occasions we need food but don't have time to cook.
* one pie using the rest of that filling (because I was tired of rolling out the pasties at that point) half of which we ate for dinner tonight, the rest is in the fridge for tomorrow.
* two cakes--one beetroot, and one chocolate beetroot--I don't like chocolate myself, so I split the batter in half, and put cocoa powder in one and left the other plain so I can have some. That one got sliced and most of it is in the freezer for when we want snacks later. The chocolate one was left out to share with people coming over to sew tomorrow.
* 12 raspberry filled bread rolls, all of which were frozen to take to the event this week.
Once that was done I took my work computer back to uni, since I had some printing to do. I decided that since we have the event this week and this weekend, and next week is back to work that today was a good day to return that computer to my office. While I was there I discovered that the thin sections I ordered last month had arrived, so I spent an hour organizing them and emailing my boss to tell him that this four thin sections were here when he wants them.
After that I made time to read another chapter in The Hobbit to
lord_kjar (we just managed to escape prison in barrels) before sitting down to my personal computer to organize files on my phone. Years ago a friend in Tasmania gave me a ton of SCA dance music files, and when I got this phone I copied them onto it, thinking that it could be handy if we ever want to dance on the spur of the moment I would have the music. However, those files were *not* organized, so finding a specific dance wasn't much fun. The copy of those files on my phone are now organized. One folder for Arbeau dances I know, one for Playford dances I know, one for other dances I know, and one folder for "dances I may not know". That last folder has some tunes I have never heard of, but it also has others that I am certain I have danced, but I don't know well enough to teach it without looking up the steps. Once I had them in folders I also went through and edited out the leading numbers from the file names. Now it is much easier to find the dance I am looking for, since it is now possible to sort the folders in alphabetical order. but after all that (and typing this) it is now 02:00, and I still need to read my 1000 words of geology and do my yoga, so I had best close this here. Tomorrow we are hosting a sewing day here, and Tuesday we head to site to do set up (the fair opens to the public on Wednesday).
