eventing we will go...

Miltenberg, Germany

So after a mad week or scribing, looking for stuff, gathering all the things we need then packing garb we left on Friday for the drive down to Miltenberg. It was nuts. I do mean nuts. Every loonie in Germany was on the road and none of them had a clue how to drive. I am so grateful that Marcus knows how to drive well and seems to have a pretty amazing 6th sense about the idiots and what they plan to do without indicator light or looking in their rear view mirrors or checking their blind spots. It was a long rather scary drive down and it took us longer than we had hoped but we made it in one piece. Which was great.

We checked into the hotel, an 800 year old building that started off life as army barracks and somewhere in the middle of its life was a prison. As hotels go it was so so. Too soft beds, kind of run down a tad the rooms had that shabby sweetness to them. However...the rooms were clean and the heat was on ( except for the 1st night where I was incredibly cold)

The hotel has an amazing restaurant with lovely food and the owners are fantastic. The breakfast coffee was bad bad bad tho. ( just saying)

We found Cecelia in the restaurant and eventually joined her for food and had a great chat before heading upstairs to get dressed and head up to the site.  After much schlepping ( the husband did not want to give up his sweet parking spot)  The site was gorgeous. And it was nice to see people.

Stuff on the to do list - vigil foods etc.. and baby shower stuff. I was alarmed to hear Ary and Ruth and her family were in a serious car accident and grateful no one was hurt. Anyway the evening was a buzz of vigil prep, court, baby shower, friends, and I don't recall flitting about so much in a long long time.

The babyshower was fun but it would not have been so wonderful without Diane's help and cheerful enthusiasm and baking abilities.

The vigil was beautiful and it was awesome to get to know SvartulfR a little better. I love this group of people I am lucky to be a part of.  It's wonderful to feel as though I belong to something magical and wasn't just an afterthought or some pawn in a larger political game.

Friday night late we wandered back along cobbled streets to go to bed. Sadly it was so damned cold in the hotel room and the duvet was too thin so I was awake, freezing with savage headache.

Next morning we joined the girls for breakfast and had a leisurely start to the day. Then Marcus and I went sight seeing to clear my head and maybe stave off some of the aches. It was a wonderful morning, bright and sunny so the walk around this gorgeous fachwerk town was stunning.

Saturday the rest of the event was amazingly fun. Feast was delicious and in the mid day so it left a lot of time afterwards for the usual schmoozing and mingling. Court was awesome but I gotta say I could live without the drama. Seriously some times I really wonder what people are thinking. Rude and ignorant doesn't even begin to describe some of the crap that went down. An award is something you accept gracefully even if you don't want it or you don't show up at court.

 I have a whole lot more to say on this subject but in the interest of not turning the blog into a rant about people and their drama I'll stop here. Needless to say it was an event with a lot of drama sometimes I feel as though I'm watching a soap opera in real time.

The night went by too quickly and we had a lot of fun. This was a really great event and a nice opportunity to get to see and know what people are doing in terms of the arts.

Sunday we had awesome breakfast with Cecelia and Alithia and  then popped up to the event site to clear up stuff and say goodbye then drove to Dietzenbach to hang out for the evening with our very good non sca friend Carsten and then on Monday we drove home.

All in all it was a fun, enlightening, great event.

annoyed

I personally do not think that peer like qualities include trying to mobilize people to fight in crown just so that a certain pair won't win. Perhaps the person entering is arrogant and perhaps you don't like them much but that doesn't make it right to try an organize a campaign to block or shut someone out. Your personal feelings towards a possible ruling pair are NOT everyone else's.

I've been hearing rumblings for a while now about this but enough people have now confirmed it that I feel I have to speak out. I find this sort of back stabbing, nasty behavior to be incredibly un-peer like, unchivalrous and unbecoming. If you don't like the pair fair enough, if you really want to keep them from being king and queen then win the fucking crown yourselves don't runaround to everyone you can bad mouthing them and trying to make it so that they can't win at all. Personally this makes me want to NEVER play while you are ruling should this ever happen.

A personal vendetta is just that personal do not take it to the public arena.

the virtual...

The Imperial Oasis, Tatooine (Starsider)

I'm a bad blogger. I'm sporadic and unreliable. This is because primarily I am either dog and bone on one topic and I don't feel the need to bore the world over and over with my ranting or I am busy doing other stuff and words have been tucked away for a rainy day.
Lately it's been gaming that's stolen my brain.

Star Wars Galaxies to be exact. SWG my first MMORPG and the one that has over and over again broken my gaming heart will be shut down on Dec 15th. What a shock ( not) although Lucas Arts ( who lie) stated they would not be shutting the game down ( rather they phrased it as we see no reason why the game cannot continue in parallel with TOR ) will be shutting the game down ( surprise surprise) 5 days BEFORE TOR launches for public gaming.

While not terribly surprised by this sneaky move I never the less think it's sad.  SWG is a one of a kind game that no matter what one thought did the unusual. It, for the most part, allowed players to do stuff without direction and storyline. There was true freedom in the game, a lot of leeway for being creative and a place for everyone to find a niche plus it was Star Wars.

I won't be playing TOR ( Knights of The Old Republic) For a few reasons.

1. Lucas Arts lies. They dick players around and after having my heart busted once ( NGE) I have sworn never again. I can find other places to spend my money.

2. TOR is set in the way back time period and really has nothing to do with the Star Wars I know and love. I'm not a lightsaber  waving jedi  fan-girl anyway and I don't give a rat's ass about this time period.

3. I might have considered trying it out ALONGSIDE SWG but since 5 days before TOR starts my beloved game, the one I have invested 7 years and god knows how much money into is being unceremoniously shut down to make way for the new kid on the block I won't touch TOR with a fifty foot pole.

It's pretty easy to make the conclusion that somewhere along the line Lucas Arts probably offered Bioware the deal of being the only star wars MMO with no direct competition and thus SWG has to go. It's old and not enough players play it. But really if the WOW fanbois hadn't tried to copy WOW into what was a pretty unique game maybe just maybe SWG would not be the problem child.

I remember asking Steve Sansweet at a convention a few years back( then Lucas arts fan liaison guy) about whether or not LA had plans for another MMO. His answer, aside from being rude, was that LA had NO plans for another MMO aside from SWG.

We knew in that moment that SWG was doomed. The rumour mill had already been pretty lively and his words cinched the deal. When anyone from Lucas Arts says something definitely won't happen..... you can pretty much guarantee it's a done deal. 

So my brain is currently lost in the virtual while I try to finish up projects in game, get all my amazing player houses decorated up and set up my toons ( we have 7 accts in total so 14 characters) so that when they pull the plug these virtual people have a place to live on.

Yes I am attached to this game, the virtual world it provides and the characters I've created. I will be sad when they pull the plug and I won't ever touch another Lucas Arts game again. In fact we've pretty much decided to shy away from giving George our money ( Unless it's an absolute must have )

Between Facebook's crappy changes and my game shutting down, it looks like I will have a LOT more free time on my hands. This is probably a good thing seeing as how I have a rather long list of real world projects I want to get done.