June Faire by the bullet points.

[derekl_1963]

June Faire is Officially Ovah! I just pulled the last checklist from my clipboard a little bit ago.

Yeah, there's some tasks left, but they're now part of ongoing work like "laundry" and "clean up the workshop".

And now, June Faire by the bullet points...

• June Faire was as usual, pretty awesome. Seeing and hanging with friends old and new. Seeing some deserving folks get elevated or recognized by the Crowns and Coronets. Etc... etc...


• It had a few sucky bits too... The drummers at all hours Friday night and the noisy encampments Saturday night. And the dumpster fire during teardown that has caused the RV to smell like burning garbage.


• I finally got to meet the lovely rectangularcat and hang out a bit.


• This whole business of photo documenting the Faire turned out to be much harder than I anticipated. It was tiring not only because I was on my feet all day, both days, but also because of the mental effort of walking the site with my head on a swivel and constantly thinking about what I was seeing, After downloading the pictures, I'm anguishing over the ones I missed or forgot to take. Such is life, lessons learned and carried forward.


• It wasn't until yesterday that I figured out why I felt so crappy all weekend - I'd become massively dehydrated. Working in the demo as I usually do, my tankard is near to hand for a few sips of water whenever I want or need them. Walking about the site, I suppressed the distraction and never made up the lack.


• Photo-geeking with andras120 and Marcus was, as usual, awesome. (And thank you again Marcus for the gift if the ball head. I'm looking forward to using it when I can get over to Seattle and get a base that it fits.)


• For the first time in many years, we shared a camp... and despite the confusion (our camp mates forgot their tent poles, resulting in an ad hoc re-arrangement of sleeping quarters - in the dark) it was massively fun.


• It was pleasant to be recognized for my photographic work by the Coronets.

And I must be crazy - because still somewhat tired from last weekend and all the work leading up to it, and still being not entirely caught up from last weekend... I'm already starting to plot and plan and look forward to next year.

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[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

June Faire is almost always wonderful despite the foo and the work.