Nattering around

Mostly a getting-caught-up weekend. Finished chopping up all the prunings to fit into the green can and returned the chainsaw polearm. Got several months worth of junk mail cleaned off the dining room table, partly in the interests of being able to serve dinner on said table, partly because I had time on my hands waiting for my dinner guest. Finally got the digital converter box installed on the living room tv. I still have never gotten around to getting the tuner, cassette player, and turntable hooked into the entertainment complex. There's actually no strong reason to have an integrated system -- the only thing I'd use the cassette/turntable stuff for at this point is ripping albums to mp3, for which an independent setup would work as well. Having the tuner hooked in would mean I could run the tv sound through the stereo speakers, but the sound improvement would be marginal for my purposes. Anyway ... whatever.

With the rain coming back, I'm back to leaning towards daytripping March Crown this coming weekend. I don't at all mean to cast aspersions on the choice of the Woodland site for March Crowns -- it has a lot of advantages as a site. But when wet it has a tendency towards significant swampiness. Mind you, any site used for March Crown will have a tendency towards swampiness. I repeat -- this is not a specific complaint about this particular site. Another tipping point was reading the event description in the kingdom newsletter and being reminded that we're once again in the middle of a "Saturday night cocktail party on the eric" reign which significantly detracts from my ability to enjoy the event. I think I may be happier opening my own personal camping season with Mists coronet in a couple of weeks.

I've got a collective movie review owed, but that will be a different post.