We saw District 9 last night- Loved it! I’m not sure why people said it was depressing. (The District did we remind us of RIo, without the hills) The characters I was rooting for did Ok, and one of them even learned a little something in the end. Besides; Neat aliens and a MECH? What’s not to like?

     On the bad (and then later- pretty good) side: A rock hit my window on the way in, producing a 10 in. crack on the driver’s side windshield =Teh suck. I emailed State Farm when I got in, got an answer email from my actual agent by 9am (no deductible- things looking up) and they had the replacement scheduled (for tomorrow at my house) by 9:30. I got to say- pretty damn happy with the service.

    Since it’s the end of the season, this weekend we’re having our annual:

“Don’t make us pack all this sale”

10% off EVERYTHING in the booth

                                                        i.      Patrons will get 10% off

                                                      ii.      Participants will get another 5% on top of that      (=15% off, so the $150 stays are $127.50 +tax, and the $3,000 Court Gown is $2,550+tax.)

  AND:  Their will be a small number of pieces at 25% off (+ another 5% for participants)

The sale applies to IN STOCK ITEMS ONLY. (Hence the name of the sale)

Custom orders are still full price.

Mask Day at The maryland Renaissance festival

SUn Oct. 4th

wear a Mask to Faire!


There are several mask makers on site, if you want to check out their work before you get there, here are their sites: 

 

http://fantasyguilde.com/masks/masks99.h tml

http://www.oddiments.com/oddiments_files/m ain.html

http://www.tigertorreart.com/  

http://katecoxchainmaildesigns.faire.net/

* Unofficial, by the way.

***TRAFFIC ADVISORY***  

Washington, D.C.) – A prayer vigil scheduled for Friday, September 25th on the west front of the Capitol may cause traffic disruption throughout the day including morning and afternoon rush hours. The Darul-Islam Elizabeth Inc. Prayer Meeting is anticipated to bring a minimum of 10,000 pedestrians for a day-long prayer vigil event.  

Maryland Avenue from 1st to 3rd streets, SW  

Pennsylvania Avenue from 1st to 3rd streets, NW  

1st Street from Independence to Constitution Avenues

     I have discovered new clothes turn me into Trinket (or some other version of a squealing, bouncing blond). My new clothes, Steve’s new clothes, Leslie creating a new design; it’s all fun! …

    Speaking of which: Steve got the first of Leslie’s new piece The Fitzroy Tudor Doublet! If you didn’t get to see it on Sunday. Here it is: http://pics.livejournal.com/kitteblue/pic/0008hy0f

There will be more in the following weeks, different colours and fabrics.

    Hearing an unhorsing on the 6pm Joust  while chatting at Kate’s, all conversation stopping and several of us running up the hill to see what happened. (Everyone was ok, but lance were splinters everywhere- I’m sure there were some amazing bruises on Monday.)

     High Point Crafts (the fan/duster place on the boardwalk), has cheap stuff. We were waiting for dance practice to get started and did a bit of shopping. The fans have wooden handles, which I like. The “expensive” peacock fan was $34. We’re thinking about getting one of the big ostridge plume feather dusters for Tamburlaine (the spaztastic kitten) for Xmas ($80). Hopefully it will take him longer to destroy than the normal cat toys.

   Oh, and it was nice meeting Whitedragons’ shoulder lizard; Esmeralda. She was very cute.


See everyone soon, it may actualy be fall weather- weird.

I’m a little late, but 3 days of faire make one tired, and there’s the whole pesky day job thing.

    It was a wonderful weekend, with a bunch of faire moments. (Of course I can’t remember everything now, but here goes):

·         Seeing the Medieval Babes in “bar band” mode at the White Hart show on Sat. They were up-close with a small crowd and were using our sound system. The sound went out some, but you got a better idea of just how good their voices are that you could still hear them at the back of the bar. And then there were the Rock Stars…The backup guys went completely crazy, from Alice Cooper/Kiss/Jimmy Hendricks actions with the lute/mandolin to wearing a Big Bird head for the last song. The best part was when the Ladies turned around and cracked up.

·         Dinner with a diverse group of hoodlums including the GA people. Much good conversation.

·         Standing in the rain on Sunday outside the booth with a bunch of other Rennies, while the patrons ran for cover, took pictures of us and thought we were nuts.

·         Steve pointing out it wasn’t lightening so the joust was still running. We got great seats and got to see Sir William (Roy) kick shinny metal butt in the rain!  Sir Henry (Ripper) had an impromptu cheering section in front of us, when a multi generation family of about 20 started chanting “Henry” on their own. (It was their first joust and they just LOVED it.)

·         Getting the last bacon orders at breakfast and introducing Alice to Liquid Crack (mocha slushie @ the bread bowls).

·         Seeing the “Why are there 2 Trinkets?” and “Trinkets’ birthday” shows of the Interpreters. Even better- my parents seeing them for the first time on Monday, and turning to stare at me for most of Trinkets’ jokes. (I was this close to being named Barbie.) Ladies- you have new life long fans- and they’re older than 9!

·         Leslie getting my new outfit finished, so I could be even more Kitty than usual.

·         Seeing the “Goat” version of the Boatman at Final Pubsing. It will take quite awhile for that song to be the same for us.

 (We’ll have pictures at some point)

 And off we go again....

Metro has announced that riders should expect major delays on the Blue and Yellow lines this afternoon, after a worker was struck by a train.  The accident took place between the Braddock Road and Reagan National Airport stations at approximately 10:40 a.m.

At the current time, there is no Metrorail service between the King Street and National Airport stations.  Free shuttle buses will carry passengers between the King Street, Braddock Road and National Airport Metrorail stations.  Metro reports that there are 15 shuttle buses in service.

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

POSITION:                 TELECOM OPERATIONS MANAGER

DEPARTMENT:         ITSS/Telecom/Telecom Operations                                  

SALARY:                    $82,130 - $123,195

POSTING DATE:       Thursday, September 03, 2009

DEADLINE:              THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

To view this position in detail, you may view it at http://saanet/hr/employment/TelecomOperationsManager.cfm  or on Webster under Employment Opportunities with the SAA.