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The pandemic continues, blah, blah, blah
Jul. 15th, 2020 11:11 pmNo end in sight. Back in the 1970s, I used to record the details of the Watergate investigation meticulously in my teenage diary, but nowadays, I am just not bothering to keep up. What's the point? The asshole in chief's duplicity and word-salads will be archived somewhere else. But nobody else is recording MY life.
Last weekend I went to Australia ... virtually. The Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium was *supposed* to be held in Melbourne, which is the Barony of Stormhold in the Kingdom of Lochac. But of course the pandemic happened, so the good folks of Stormhold gamely shifted operations to Zoom, and the show went on. (I almost deleted the email with the Zoom links because at first I didn't recognize "Stormhold Bookings" in the "From:" field.) It was a tad weird to attend an SCA event running from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. two American nights in a row, but it was also only the second time I've been able to attend a KWHSS.
We're also having a massive heat wave, the public pool is closed, the covid-19 disease is exploding across the southern states, and the next Tournament of Roses Parade has been canceled. We can't have nice things because so many people act like idiots.
We are still in the season of "excess deaths" too -- more people have died in a given period this year than the same period last year, above and beyond known deaths from covid-19. Today a very well-known fellow at Pennsic, who has been Pennsic Mayor twice, died of complications from a stroke. He was in his late 60s, I believe. I didn't know him, but I respect all his contributions to the SCA, and some of my friends are heartbroken.
Last weekend I went to Australia ... virtually. The Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium was *supposed* to be held in Melbourne, which is the Barony of Stormhold in the Kingdom of Lochac. But of course the pandemic happened, so the good folks of Stormhold gamely shifted operations to Zoom, and the show went on. (I almost deleted the email with the Zoom links because at first I didn't recognize "Stormhold Bookings" in the "From:" field.) It was a tad weird to attend an SCA event running from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. two American nights in a row, but it was also only the second time I've been able to attend a KWHSS.
We're also having a massive heat wave, the public pool is closed, the covid-19 disease is exploding across the southern states, and the next Tournament of Roses Parade has been canceled. We can't have nice things because so many people act like idiots.
We are still in the season of "excess deaths" too -- more people have died in a given period this year than the same period last year, above and beyond known deaths from covid-19. Today a very well-known fellow at Pennsic, who has been Pennsic Mayor twice, died of complications from a stroke. He was in his late 60s, I believe. I didn't know him, but I respect all his contributions to the SCA, and some of my friends are heartbroken.
