Pennsic short takes
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cellioBrief Pennsic notes in the form of pluses and minuses:
+ Debatable Choir concert went very well! I hope I get to hear a recording (or, better, watch a video.) One person who doesn't usually comment on our performances described our last song (Ecce Quomodo) as "exquisite".
- Despite a sudden attack of Pennsic crud causing a coughing fit.
+ Saw two fun commedia shows. (Would have been more if not for dinner conflicts, ouch.)
- Cooking dinner on the night of both the Pensnic Choir concert and the commedia all-stars show was not, in retrospect, a good idea.
+ But it was a very nice dinner, if I do say so myself. (Teriyaki salmon; teriyaki tofu with snow peas, carrots, and ginger; stir-fried vegetables in a red chili sauce; white rice; fruit for dessert. No meat, no gluten, and everything except the salmon was vegan.)
+ Many improvements to our kitchen! (I need to organize pictures for a separate post.)
+ Not too much rain, though what did fall led to instant large mud puddles in the roads because the ground is saturated.
+ Our block really came together to work through land problems -- swampy patches and two drainage ditches made parts of the block uncampable.
? Being on the corner was good for middle-of-the-night privy access and bad for noise.
+ We doubled our solar power this year. We can now charge not only phones but the electric scooters of the two camp members who require them and one other camp member's CPAP machine. (Not all at once and only during the day.)
+/- I got to see some friends but missed others.
+ Nice arts & sciences exhibit, including someone who wrote (calligraphed and illuminated) a book of Tehillim (Psalms).
+ After the Coopers declined again to tow my house-trailer, the person who towed the kitchen for us agreed to do so, saving us a bunch of money.
--- Toward the end of Pennsic I got email from the Coopers (the first written communication I've received from them about any aspect of my trailer). It contained an eviction notice. I am very frustrated; all this time, the (verbal) discussions with them have been about them (not) towing it, and now they're saying they don't want to have any oversized trailers on their property at all. I wish I'd known that earlier!! I'll probably write more about this separately. Meanwhile, I can keep it through Pennsic 50 (two more years) and then it has to be gone. :-(
+ Debatable Choir concert went very well! I hope I get to hear a recording (or, better, watch a video.) One person who doesn't usually comment on our performances described our last song (Ecce Quomodo) as "exquisite".
- Despite a sudden attack of Pennsic crud causing a coughing fit.
+ Saw two fun commedia shows. (Would have been more if not for dinner conflicts, ouch.)
- Cooking dinner on the night of both the Pensnic Choir concert and the commedia all-stars show was not, in retrospect, a good idea.
+ But it was a very nice dinner, if I do say so myself. (Teriyaki salmon; teriyaki tofu with snow peas, carrots, and ginger; stir-fried vegetables in a red chili sauce; white rice; fruit for dessert. No meat, no gluten, and everything except the salmon was vegan.)
+ Many improvements to our kitchen! (I need to organize pictures for a separate post.)
+ Not too much rain, though what did fall led to instant large mud puddles in the roads because the ground is saturated.
+ Our block really came together to work through land problems -- swampy patches and two drainage ditches made parts of the block uncampable.
? Being on the corner was good for middle-of-the-night privy access and bad for noise.
+ We doubled our solar power this year. We can now charge not only phones but the electric scooters of the two camp members who require them and one other camp member's CPAP machine. (Not all at once and only during the day.)
+/- I got to see some friends but missed others.
+ Nice arts & sciences exhibit, including someone who wrote (calligraphed and illuminated) a book of Tehillim (Psalms).
+ After the Coopers declined again to tow my house-trailer, the person who towed the kitchen for us agreed to do so, saving us a bunch of money.
--- Toward the end of Pennsic I got email from the Coopers (the first written communication I've received from them about any aspect of my trailer). It contained an eviction notice. I am very frustrated; all this time, the (verbal) discussions with them have been about them (not) towing it, and now they're saying they don't want to have any oversized trailers on their property at all. I wish I'd known that earlier!! I'll probably write more about this separately. Meanwhile, I can keep it through Pennsic 50 (two more years) and then it has to be gone. :-(
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Date: 2019-08-16 06:23 am (UTC)I concluded at the end of this war that Pennsic is HIGHLY unlikely to make it to a centennial, for a multitude of reasons -- none of which are individually serious enough but are unintentionally working in concert with each other.
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Date: 2019-08-21 01:36 am (UTC)Speaking personally, I used to get excited about Pennsic, and now it's this thing I do. I still have fun, but it's different. I have thoughts rolling around in my head that I hope will come out in a new post about this. But one effect is that I'm not inclined to invest in another "amortize over 20 years" housing project to replace this one; I don't think it will pay dividends. (On the other hand, I very much want to be *off the ground and dry*... used vardo? Hotel room? Dunno.)
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Date: 2019-08-25 08:25 pm (UTC)I'm still kind of excited about Pennsic every year, tempered though that may be by "OMG we never have enough time to set up the sho AND my camp"... Pennsic this year was a damn site better than what happened once I got back, that's for sure. There's a reason I haven't posted.
For "off the ground and dry" options, I'd look for a used vardo myself; that has the advantage of being re-sell-able once one gets to the point of *requiring* temperature and humidity control overnight (a point some of my friends HAVE gotten to). I'm not quite to that point myself, though I was very glad for a way to get my BED off the ground this year. (Even if only by a few inches, it made all the difference.)