I'm just a big fencing bully.

I think I won these goblets because I was the tallest fencer present:



Friday night was a SCA demo on the Penn campus. At first it looked to a bust, like the previous event, but some folks showed up and there was dancing and recorder practice. I was there for fencing. Of course, the other fencers that showed were Bruni, Lissa, and Berrick.

All of whom are hobbit sized. I fenced and enjoyed myself, but I was kinda playing Ogre. (and not the fencing OGRE either, I'm talking big mean Orge!)

Embarassing was that there turned out to be a prize for the 'best fencer'. They elected me. But really, I won goblets because I am tall. (OK and have a lot of experience).

Not helping matters is that my hands are covered with paper cuts. We got a big order for Fresnel lenses on Friday, which is good, since we have a lot of them. However, they are all in blister packaging which must be opened since they were packaged 30 years ago and the paper sometimes sticks to the Fresnel Lens. Hence the paper cuts.

Today was more eventful than expected. I got a call to help a family friend set up her new computer. This is sorta something I have been doing on the side: helping people who have no clue about computers use them. Clicking a mouse can be a challenge. Anyway, I got to her place at around 1PM and was able to bike there in relative warm weather. When I left 2.5 hours later, there was a chill. Mom left a message that my brother and his kids would be by their place for dinner and I should join them. I walked this time (the family friend and my parents place are very close to each other..in fact I stopped by to save the computer from the crisis of Widgets). In the walk to my parents place I encountered:

1) 20th Parkway...A horrible intersection for pedestrians, it becomes a nightmare when the traffic lights are out. Eeek!

2) Wind. It was literally pushing me down the street around JFK Blvd. Like big hand shoving.

3) Inept and Inconsiderate drivers. Parking on the sidewalk should be the death penalty in my country. But as I was crossing a small side street there was a car parked right on the sidewalk in front of me. Bad enough, but then some brain dead driver decides to turn and nearly squeeze me between the parked car and his car. I should have smacked his car to wake him up, but I didn't for some reason.

Pheh.