gee, this month went by fast
Jan. 30th, 2023 06:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaIt does that when one is busy. What have I done. No, there is too much, I will try to sum up. Wish me luck that I don't get distracted typing lots of details that feel worth sharing...
Coronation! Ok, I got distracted with details for this one, so instead I posted my event summary on the Frostheim page, so you just go there to read it, and see the photos.
A week at home, and a week in Luleå. After spending the weekend feeding 150 people in a small, understaffed kitchen, Keldor was exhausted, so he called in sick on Monday. And Tuesday. And Wednesday. On Thursday he had his monthly massage scheduled (one of the nicer perks of the company he works for), so he returned to work. That left me a couple of days, plus the weekend to finish all of the Coronation unpacking and washing, and to pack for the next SCA event and have it all ready to go. Then I dropped him and the cats at his dad's house (very near to his job) on Monday morning and I headed north. On the way I stopped in Hortlax to pick up a free dryer that someone was giving away (ours had quit heating last week, and while we probably could have fixed it, since it would only be a matter of replacing the heater, we haven't much time, so just getting another, especially at the price of free, made sense), and then in Antnas to give Baron Egil his Pelican vigil book, which had been left on site for more people to sign after the group he was traveling with had to leave site earlier than planned due to a sick child.
I spent the week working at the Archives, where I made good progress--I am now over 750 Volumes of papers from the Luleå älvs flottningsföreningen that I have entered into the database and packaged up in archive boxes, only a two or three meters worth of shelf space left and that project will be complete. I have one more week of work in February, and then I need to decide if I want to extend the contract, if they are still interested in doing so (they were as of the end of the year, but it wasn't discussed this visit). I love the job, but the commute is a bit long. But I only have to do the drive once for a week's work, and I get to see friends there. Heck, bonus this time, I went to the Phire jester group training one evening, and met a new person who does acroyoga! She taught me some things I didn't already know, and I shared some of my favourites with her. So. Much. Fun!
Herstory road trip I managed to get my forty hours of work done by Thursday afternoon, after which I stopped by Master SvartulvR's house to drop off his scroll he'd received on Saturday, but which got left behind when his group had to leave site early due to a sick child, and then I headed home, picking up Keldor and the cats on the way.
We had enough time to unload the car, unpack everything I had brought to Luleå for the week, and do the last minute packing stuff (food, toiletries, pillows) for the next road trip, and even take a short nap before the others arrived to pick us up. Five of us from Reengarda, in one car. We drove all night (well 8 hours of it, anyway) on Thursday night/Friday morning (the driver for that shift normally works nights; the rest of us slept as she drove) to Gävle, where the aunt of one of us lives, and we all curled up on proper beds to sleep away the morning, arising around 11:00 for a leisurely breakfast before setting out for the final three hours drive, which we extended by a stop in a second hand store to have a look (I bought 6 meters of fine very dark blue with widely spaced white stripes wool twill for only 400 SEK, Keldor bought a backgammon game board for only 100 SEK, and I think most of the others found small treasures, too).
The event itself was lots of fun, but as Keldor wrote it up, and google translate exists, I will just link to his summary (a few things didn't translate that well, but it is mostly good enough. However, you should know that "möhippa" is a "bachelorette party", not a "bachelor party").
Then we did the long drive home, in one go, not counting a stop to look at a runestone on the way (see his event writeup for a photo), and many stops for toilet, and even one to fuel the car.
A week of trying to be a student again Now that the major events for the month were past, it was time to focus on trying to finish up the X-ray diffraction data processing for my research for my Masters in Archaeology, so I can get that data into the paper in progress. That is finally going well, and the end is in sight. I also managed to get everything unpacked after the event, and tidy up the house a little, and do some Swedish studying, since I signed up for the Swedish For Immigrants course again--this time to focus on trying to learn how to properly pronounce Swedish, since I haven't managed to do that in 12 years of living here.
On Line Kingdom University Given the success of the pandemic era online University events, we have decided to do one online, and one in person University every year, so to increase the chances for participation. There were many of us who attended this weekend, and lots of interesting classes. I spent Friday evening hanging out in the University Zoom, both attending classes, and just visiting with folks, while working on a computer-based art project, and attended a couple of classes on Saturday, Saturday night's bardic, and a class on Sunday. During the hours we weren't at the event we made progress on home renovations (a serious upside to online events!). Now we have removed all of the loose plaster (or whatever one calls the layer between the concrete wall and the old tiles) in the area where the downstairs shower will be, swept up the dust after it settled (a full bucket worth), and have painted the concrete with the primer that needs to go on before we build the wall back up again ready for the tile.
Coronation! Ok, I got distracted with details for this one, so instead I posted my event summary on the Frostheim page, so you just go there to read it, and see the photos.
A week at home, and a week in Luleå. After spending the weekend feeding 150 people in a small, understaffed kitchen, Keldor was exhausted, so he called in sick on Monday. And Tuesday. And Wednesday. On Thursday he had his monthly massage scheduled (one of the nicer perks of the company he works for), so he returned to work. That left me a couple of days, plus the weekend to finish all of the Coronation unpacking and washing, and to pack for the next SCA event and have it all ready to go. Then I dropped him and the cats at his dad's house (very near to his job) on Monday morning and I headed north. On the way I stopped in Hortlax to pick up a free dryer that someone was giving away (ours had quit heating last week, and while we probably could have fixed it, since it would only be a matter of replacing the heater, we haven't much time, so just getting another, especially at the price of free, made sense), and then in Antnas to give Baron Egil his Pelican vigil book, which had been left on site for more people to sign after the group he was traveling with had to leave site earlier than planned due to a sick child.
I spent the week working at the Archives, where I made good progress--I am now over 750 Volumes of papers from the Luleå älvs flottningsföreningen that I have entered into the database and packaged up in archive boxes, only a two or three meters worth of shelf space left and that project will be complete. I have one more week of work in February, and then I need to decide if I want to extend the contract, if they are still interested in doing so (they were as of the end of the year, but it wasn't discussed this visit). I love the job, but the commute is a bit long. But I only have to do the drive once for a week's work, and I get to see friends there. Heck, bonus this time, I went to the Phire jester group training one evening, and met a new person who does acroyoga! She taught me some things I didn't already know, and I shared some of my favourites with her. So. Much. Fun!
Herstory road trip I managed to get my forty hours of work done by Thursday afternoon, after which I stopped by Master SvartulvR's house to drop off his scroll he'd received on Saturday, but which got left behind when his group had to leave site early due to a sick child, and then I headed home, picking up Keldor and the cats on the way.
We had enough time to unload the car, unpack everything I had brought to Luleå for the week, and do the last minute packing stuff (food, toiletries, pillows) for the next road trip, and even take a short nap before the others arrived to pick us up. Five of us from Reengarda, in one car. We drove all night (well 8 hours of it, anyway) on Thursday night/Friday morning (the driver for that shift normally works nights; the rest of us slept as she drove) to Gävle, where the aunt of one of us lives, and we all curled up on proper beds to sleep away the morning, arising around 11:00 for a leisurely breakfast before setting out for the final three hours drive, which we extended by a stop in a second hand store to have a look (I bought 6 meters of fine very dark blue with widely spaced white stripes wool twill for only 400 SEK, Keldor bought a backgammon game board for only 100 SEK, and I think most of the others found small treasures, too).
The event itself was lots of fun, but as Keldor wrote it up, and google translate exists, I will just link to his summary (a few things didn't translate that well, but it is mostly good enough. However, you should know that "möhippa" is a "bachelorette party", not a "bachelor party").
Then we did the long drive home, in one go, not counting a stop to look at a runestone on the way (see his event writeup for a photo), and many stops for toilet, and even one to fuel the car.
A week of trying to be a student again Now that the major events for the month were past, it was time to focus on trying to finish up the X-ray diffraction data processing for my research for my Masters in Archaeology, so I can get that data into the paper in progress. That is finally going well, and the end is in sight. I also managed to get everything unpacked after the event, and tidy up the house a little, and do some Swedish studying, since I signed up for the Swedish For Immigrants course again--this time to focus on trying to learn how to properly pronounce Swedish, since I haven't managed to do that in 12 years of living here.
On Line Kingdom University Given the success of the pandemic era online University events, we have decided to do one online, and one in person University every year, so to increase the chances for participation. There were many of us who attended this weekend, and lots of interesting classes. I spent Friday evening hanging out in the University Zoom, both attending classes, and just visiting with folks, while working on a computer-based art project, and attended a couple of classes on Saturday, Saturday night's bardic, and a class on Sunday. During the hours we weren't at the event we made progress on home renovations (a serious upside to online events!). Now we have removed all of the loose plaster (or whatever one calls the layer between the concrete wall and the old tiles) in the area where the downstairs shower will be, swept up the dust after it settled (a full bucket worth), and have painted the concrete with the primer that needs to go on before we build the wall back up again ready for the tile.