Seems that updates to this webspace are few and far between… lack of thinking time to myself might indeed be the cause… So what is taking up valuable CPU cycles in my brain these days… What are that thoughts that rattle through various cells and junctions of that pink squishy mass?

Website stuff mainly… And what is it they say about mechanics, electricians and plumbers? Well… other than those things. Yes… they find little time to do their own Car’s, Electrics and plumbing… So alas dear reader, your whinging blogger has segmented his brain for the following purposes…

The House Drakkar website, a site for the morally depraved wanna be Vikings out there willing to sell their war talents for Cider and food. Work on this site started in July, and the site went live on the First of August this year. It has now been handed over to the ever competent Egan to administer, however I am still involved in small maintenance tasks and larger updates.

The Barony of Rowany website, a site for all things good in and around Rowany. This site is consuming a greater part of my mental power (what little there is), tracking down information isn’t as easy as it seems, though I do have a great support base. Being reletively new to full SCA involvement there is alot I am learning, hence the brain drain. But we are slowly getting to a point of easing off, where I can concentrate on detailing the content more and not so much of the chasing content and writing content.

This with my training obligations to Drakkar as a fighter, and my desire to get IKAC shoots happening in Rowany has left me little time to tinker here. So for that fellow reader(s), I am sorry.

Casual War this weekend in Canberra… I’m looking forward to this last War of the year, and then spending time preparing for Festival. So many projects, only “Two Weeks” to Festival…

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Seems that Drupal, the CMS I’m considering using to fix my blog site Syridian.com actually has a built in RSS parser…. Oooo What fun… Now to just work out how to blend that content with site content…

LJ now allows you to post directly from your IM client?!!?!?!!! Thats amasingly fun and easy! Now I just have to work out how to get my LJ posts imported into my normal website, and All will be right with the world. :)

Memory lane is an interesting place… It exists in all of us, yet it’s never the same. Like a generic street name that turns up in virtually every suburb, it’s always there, but sometimes hard to find. At times you find yourself hopelessly lost on those cobbled back lanes of the past, wandering aimlessly revelling in the sites and sounds that surround you.

Since participating in the SCA again, I have found myself wondering those cobbles a lot. It may seem strange for someone like me, who was always on the fringe to dwell on brief memories of fleeting SCA involvement, a feast here, festival there, and even the odd armouring day and fighter training, but dwell I do. Maybe the ghost of regret haunts me… regret for not being involved back then, all those years ago.

I’ve lost track of how many years it’s been since I was first introduced to the SCA. I was hooked, but being introduced by someone who was not part of a household, and not knowing anyone, I felt like an outsider. My friends involvement was always fleeting, a feast here and there only. He wasn’t that interested in fighting, and didn’t really get involved that much, so I had no-one to go with who I knew. My life changed… I moved over-sea’s (stupidly I should have chased up the SCA over there), and basically work and socialising took over. The SCA became a memory for a few years longer…

I have resolved to draw a map to Memory Lane, well at least the SCA part of it. I would like to drag up the old memories, and thank those that helped to try and drag me in.

Stay tuned for Part II…