mikekn

The good news: My sister's school did not go on strike.  They just signed a five year contract.

The bad news: My friend Mike's father passed away and we're going to attend the service next Saturday, so no game tournament this year.  Until recently we've not gotten to see Mike and his family very often, but they been joining us for brunch recently when they can.  His father has been sick for a while now, so it wasn't a surprise, but that doesn't lessen the loss. 

The mixed news: Half my job is finally picking up again - I've got billable hours!  The other half is slowing down - to the point where they will probably be letting go the new software guy (who they just hired a few months ago).

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The calendar is getting crowded again.  We've got too many really active groups in the region, which is normally a good thing. 

If we count all the cantons, we've got 26 groups in the region.  If they each have two events a year, then we could fill every weekend of the year - of course some holiday weekends won't be used usually, and very little happens during in August because of Pennsic...  Unfortunately (for scheduling) most of these groups have more then two events.  For example we have four that make it onto the EK calendar. 

So now we get things like this September, where three neighboring groups (Hartshorn-dale, Bhakail, Iron Bog) are each trying to have fighting, fencing, A&S, dancing events on the same weekend *sigh*.  In this case, two of them are demo/events being held in conjunction with non-SCA sponsored events, so we had no control over the date.  Still, all three will suffer because of the overlap.