Looks like I'm going to be doing a children's concert at Marcon next year, and very probably another concert for the filk programming track as well.
I guess I need to get busy and practice, hunh?
Music News
More Armor of God
Yet another person has asked me for this same song, so I finally got up my courage to ask for help with harmonizing it. Shawn Stanley of “Affordable Music” is a friend of mine, (and a really nice guy,) and was willing to lend me his expertise.
So it's all there now, finally. Yay!
Going over to Shawn's house was a bit hard on my health, but then, so is everything else.
I didn't write on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
Did get more of my critters RFDR done, the floor mopped, the living-room swept and some music composition stuff accomplished.
I didn't think I was feeling too terrible today, but when I opened up Eyes, all I could do was just stare at it. I don't think it's me, necessarily, it could just be that I'm stuck because I don't know what's going on, and I need to stop and figure out what is really happening in this story, or at the very least in Serena's half of the story. I'm about at the point where that's likely to happen. So maybe instead of typing more roughdraft, I should be finding a pencil and start scribbling out plot notes on a piece of paper somewhere.
Grand Tourney and Armor of God
I took the kids to Grand Tourney of the Unicorn yesterday (an SCA event) and I think they all had fun. The girls all seemed to be enjoying children's point, and both Ben and Jacob got a chance to boffer. (Jacob is too young to join any tournaments yet, but he can practice and receive instruction from the Marshals.) I was way behind on my costume sewing, unfortunately, (something to do with my sewing machine being dead), so Ben (in the black helmet) didn't have one of my patented padded tunics to wear. Luckily they aren't required. Jacob (in green) was wearing Lori's old middle-eastern garb and the smaller of the two padded tunics I made up a couple years ago, and all the girls had handed their dresses down a step, leaving Azure with nothing appropriate to wear, so we just sorta improvised something for her. Hopefully I'll hear back from the shop about the part I ordered soon, and can get something done for Azure and new bigger boffer “armor” for Ben before the next event.
The boy in “mundane” clothing is Lord Gareth (I think, I'm bad at names) who was acting as a youth Marshal. He hadn't wanted to put his armor on, because in his opinion it was too hot to fight.
Apparently “Wearing the Whole Armor of God” has been an assigned topic in church (LDS), this month, or something. I had one couple turn up my song on that in a web search and hoped to sing it, and I had to confess that although it had a melody, that's *all* it had, no accompaniment or anything… 🙁
But yesterday I had someone who wanted to put it my 'Armor of God' poem on book marks to hand out to the teen-aged girls at standard's night.
That was cool.