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Relearning the basics
Apr. 20th, 2008 10:07 amIt took around three hours to get ready for the SCA event yesterday - four if you count the hour spent assembling the Radio Flyer wagon that then wouldn't fit into the trunk of the car, anyway. Of course, it wasn't three solid hours: break to feed the baby, stop to feed ourselves, check some email. But event prep used to be: grab the feast gear, grab the instruments, grab the garb and go. Sometimes there would be a stop for grabbing lunch foods, but that's optional.
This time, there was all that, plus the baby stuff. We're still sorting out which baby stuff needs to come along. Oh, and the baby needs a tunic - let me sew one up really quickly, that's 20 minutes. Oh, we'll need a cooler for the baby's yogurt; let's pack that up. Have we got enough bottles and formula (yes) and diapers (no, as it turned out, which necessitated sending Moe on a 40 minute odyssey through PG County to find them)? Really, it's not that much, but we haven't done it often enough to do it quickly, and we didn't do it the night before. I need packing lists, or something. (We did remember the sunblock, though - a coup for me, since I almost always forget it for the first summer event.)
Next time, we'll bring the Pack-n-Play. It seems... over the top, but the Spud would. Not. Sleep. He was due for a nap around 2pm and started rubbing his eyes right on schedule, but was just too interested in everything to sleep until probably 7pm. Thankfully, he was still mostly in good spirits despite being so tired.
Apart from the "OMG we're down to 3 diapers and it's only 4pm!!" moment, it was a good day, though. There was a bardic workshop (which we participated in) and a musician's tent (which I was supposed to, but since we got there late and the workshop went until court, I didn't). The workshop ended in a spirited discussion of bardic/A&S/documentation/audience approval issues, which I think aren't really issues but we think they are because we're using the same words for different things, or else not properly separating process from product.
I'm an engineer. I want to put things into frameworks to assist analysis. It's what I do. I'll probably go into awful detail over at Mi Contra Fa later.
And feast was excellent, as always around here. The standout dish had to be the cheese gnocchi; a last minute substitution of more parmesan cheese for dropped flour made them amazingly rich.
This time, there was all that, plus the baby stuff. We're still sorting out which baby stuff needs to come along. Oh, and the baby needs a tunic - let me sew one up really quickly, that's 20 minutes. Oh, we'll need a cooler for the baby's yogurt; let's pack that up. Have we got enough bottles and formula (yes) and diapers (no, as it turned out, which necessitated sending Moe on a 40 minute odyssey through PG County to find them)? Really, it's not that much, but we haven't done it often enough to do it quickly, and we didn't do it the night before. I need packing lists, or something. (We did remember the sunblock, though - a coup for me, since I almost always forget it for the first summer event.)
Next time, we'll bring the Pack-n-Play. It seems... over the top, but the Spud would. Not. Sleep. He was due for a nap around 2pm and started rubbing his eyes right on schedule, but was just too interested in everything to sleep until probably 7pm. Thankfully, he was still mostly in good spirits despite being so tired.
Apart from the "OMG we're down to 3 diapers and it's only 4pm!!" moment, it was a good day, though. There was a bardic workshop (which we participated in) and a musician's tent (which I was supposed to, but since we got there late and the workshop went until court, I didn't). The workshop ended in a spirited discussion of bardic/A&S/documentation/audience approval issues, which I think aren't really issues but we think they are because we're using the same words for different things, or else not properly separating process from product.
I'm an engineer. I want to put things into frameworks to assist analysis. It's what I do. I'll probably go into awful detail over at Mi Contra Fa later.
And feast was excellent, as always around here. The standout dish had to be the cheese gnocchi; a last minute substitution of more parmesan cheese for dropped flour made them amazingly rich.
