I made a mostly real dinner tonight!. I made pork chops, corn on the cob, and instant mashed potatoes. I did have to find directions for corn on the cob. I have messed it up often. But tonight the biggest issue was the instant potatoes were a little thick. Everything else turned out fine and I put the spicier things in the pork chop recipe and it did not die.

I am quite pleased, but would still rather be driving to Border Raids.

I just sent Sean off for his Junior Prom. He is taking his best friend and all around great girl, Mariah. Picture has been uploaded. They are going to dinner with another couple that has a humorous connection. Ask Maraih :) Also with two other guys going stag. Then the six of them will go to Prom and After-Prom. I am chaperoning the 2:30-5:30am portion of after prom. That should be interesting. I bet the avoid my station. It is amazing to see him growing into a man. I am ver proud of my boy.

Tonight, Sean went to the Belgarth practice before our fighter practice. I was not going to eat out two days in a row, so I decided to try some pork chops. I have had mixed luck with them before. I searched the internet and found this but I did not have any onion salt, but I did have a spicy salt so I risked it. They turned out pretty well. It seemed like a lot of butter, but I used the whole stick for the two chops. I was pretty pleased. Nothing burnt and it had flavor!.

Sean had his spring concert tonight. It was pretty good. They did a song written in tribute to a local Macomb man who passed away a couple years ago. It was very moving. Sadly, I to a call in the middle of it. While I did not ring in the concert, it did stop my recording. Here is the last half. More videos are at my youtube page.

Now if I only had not spent 1.5 hours on the phone with the technical call back.

Had a very nice day at Coronation. The hightlight of the day was Sean getting his AOA. It was made even more special by the way HRM presented him to the populace. He eared this award when he finally found a focus in the SCA. Ssvaric recognized that and made a great point of it. I am so proud of him.

I did not fight well. Not a good tuner for Crown. HRM team went to the finals, but I only went 2-2 and lost to Cellach, that did not make me happy. I also lost to Duke Qulliam of Ealdomere, but I have no issues with that. I was just not pleased with how I fought. I will see what kind of focus that I can find in three weeks.

Sadly teensy80 was not able to come. She got sick and feast was only average. But i got to speak to Savaric being the rightful heir to the throne, I danced with Deb Speer, the revel afterwards was very much fun.

All in all a wonderful day. Now it is finally time for a shower..

This year's armored easter egg hunt was an odd one. It was cold at the start of the day and only got a little better. Garreth and I made the trip down from his house with the plan to return so he could get to Acen before it got too late. We arrived on site in time for him to do the unbelt practice and me to do some rapier war practice. We had about a dozen show up to do rapier war practice. I fought that for about an hour. Had fun. Missed one shot badly and talked to Moira about it afterwards.

I then went and changed armor to enter the egg hunt tourney. It was a bit disorganized as the start of the hunt was not clear. I only got 5 eggs to start with, but I then went on to lose only one fight all day and that was to Duke Bardolph who would win the tourney. Garreth had a great day. He finished tied with Savanah, Seto, and myself for second. It was a great tourney though. We had seven knights in the tourney including the visiting Sir Kaydian. It was so good to see him. I miss him a lot and need to get together with him more often. He was doing the same thing that I was in prepping for Crown. His is in two weeks. It would be so great to see him on the throne of Northshield. I had an amazing bout with Guerric during the tournament. Best of three that took about 10 minutes that I barely came out on top of. It was one for the ages.

We then fought the Kingdom War Practice. It was a Kingdom practice because our General Sir Farthegn declared it so and came to run it. Sadly we had no one from out of region attend and only 14 Midlands fighters. This did not please me. Only five members of Terrae Finis on the field. About same number of VonB's attended. We have 8 Clovenshield members there. It was a fun practice, if short do to the numbers. We fought more singles afterwards and I got to fight Kaydian more. I also got to fight some bastard sword.

I then ran around and quickly said hi and bye to everyone that had not been fighting. I hated leaving a Scolari event early, but I had made a deal with my squire. Had a lot of good conversation with him on the way home with him. Then had a nice steak dinner with Sean and Nichola while the kids are all at Acen. Only Nicolla and I had to run to Acen anyway to take Garreth his badge that he left here. Silly squire.

I am now trying to decided if I wait up for them. I will stay up for a while longer for sure.

Acen was interesting. I find it odd because it is so similar to something that I like but not quite. I get the energy and emotion of the people, I understand the love, it is so close to something I love but not quite right. I had a good time anyway. Loved artist alley. Got a custom sketch of Jessica Rabbit. It is interesting what American characters are popular with the anime people. There is, of course, cross over as well.

I had a great time taking pictures of superheroines. I will post them after I get them off my phone. My phone was a huge issue today. It just did not want to work well today at all. Battery, connection, lock ups, etc made it a massive fail. Might have to replace it soon. It is trying even my patience

I went to the Godzilla panel. It was fun. I have not seen any of the 90s Godzilla movies. It was cool to here about them. I will have to catch the last one. It has all the monsters. I went with the group and watched High School of the Dead. I felt it was amongst the lamest things ever, but I do not anime style and I do not like zombies. It was doomed for me from the beginning.

I also went out to dinner with so_zanie and evils_thoughts when they came out to get there badges. That was nice. I love them both and any opportunity to be with them is great.

The most interesting thing of the night was at the end. We were getting ready to go and two guys came up to me and gave me a high five. They then told me that the loved my hair.

I got an error report for my 2010 taxes today. Turbo Tax Audit report center tells me that I need to challenge it. I should it is asking for $1800 in additional taxes. Just really do not want to deal with where all my paperwork might be if I would get an audit. Sigh. I will be calling them tomorrow.

It was a good day. Got up by 8 and had a good breakfast, then continued loading the truck for Vargas and Rowan. Saw Spencer, Duncan, and Mikalyn off and then went with Vargas to load the storage shed into the truck. Everything fit well. newperspectives met us back at the Vargas house. She helped pick up the barn and we got to spend some time catching up. That was good. She got her instruments from me and I got the package for Ambrose. I also ended up with a window air conditioner that I will put in Sean's room and a few other odds and ends.

Then we made the drive from Fairview Heights to Springfield, where I left my car. I dropped it off at Ambrose's house and gave him the garb that Kathrin had made. He loved it. Then I road with Rowan and had some very wonderful conversation with her on the long trip to Chesterton, IN. We got to the Riley Railhouse about 8 and Richard made hamburgers on the grill for us.

Now everyone else is asleep. I will join them soon.

It was a busy day at work today. Lots of things to get done and prepped. Not all of them completed, but a good day. Tonight, not so much. I accomplished just about nothing. Not sure why. All I know is that I sat around most of the night watching Big Bang Theory and eating an entire bad of Cheese Puffs. I did get newperspectives instruments loaded into the car. It will be a hard working weekend as I am going to help Vargas and Rowan move on both ends. Should get a bag packed for that tonight. No ambition to do anything tonight. Again.