Hail, Hale, Hail

Well this week was interesting, only had to work 3 days as I took off Thursday and Friday to spend with Mary before she leaves early Sunday morning for Germany. Driving home Wednesday night, was well interesting, go about half-way home and got just hammered by hail, luckily were we are at it was not very big hail stones. The run was completely covered and a surreal white landscape as I drove home. The cars are fine and the roof and house are fine.

Did not get to get any armouring done this week as Mary was not feeling to well Thursday night, so decided to stay home and hang out with her.

Armour Night 03-19-2009

Had a good time Thursday night at Zach's Armour Night, decided to take a break from planishing the right greave and switched over to shaping the left greave, got some good work in. Even with the new forms it is a real bitch to get the metal to move the way you want it too.




Have decided to trade my Klapvisor Bascinet for a grilled Kettle/Pot helm and I am in the planning stages for either a Close Helm/Armet or Burgonet helm for Heavy Rapier/Cut & Thrust Combat. Wanting to make it out of 410 Spring Stainless instead of the 4130 to help with rust prevention. Going to see about getting the helm top from Rough from the Hammer and working on the rest myself (with help of course) and hoping to find someone local to weld the 410 pieces together. Jason suggested getting the piece professionally heat treated (like he did on his scales) as it doesn't cost that much and it is going to be going on the noggen.

Work has gotten a whole lot better with our new Pharmacy Manager, he actually cares about work and we have been working hard at getting it cleaned up and reorganized. Mary is leaving for Germany next Sunday, but we are going on vacation when she gets back, so should be fun.

Greaves

Well finally got to work on some armour at Zach's and had a good run on my right frontal greave that I have been working on. Zach had gotten (2) new forming stakes for the complex curves at the ankle and they made a huge difference and I got the right greave almost done. Still need to do some more planishing and then some sanding before I fire them.



Weight is holding steady at 207.8 lb.'s, really need to get into the exercise groove and continue to improve my eating habits (especially at work). School has not done well and will be taking my foreign language over again this summer, this time it will be go to school and then go to work. Not looking forward to the short 6 ½ week time frame though.


Erebus is growing like a weed, he is almost 6 months old and is getting closer to the 70 lb.'s mark, going to have to take him in around May to check his weight, once he goes over 100 lb.'s we need to adjust his Hart Guard for worm prevention. Mary is leaving for Germany at the end of the month and will be gone for almost 40 days or so. Glad she is getting to go, but going to miss her, hopefully I will not starve to death..........

Sir Gaston's Shield

Well I finally got around to putting the edge on Sir Gaston's (Zach) shield after he had painted it and gotten it back to me. Unlike my last heater I started the rawhide edging at the bottom and did the top last so it would layer/overlap better for SCA combat. Got the shield edged in 3 pieces and was very happy with the edging. I tried out latex paint for the rawhide, as you just cannot dye the stuff and was surprised at who easy it went on and how well it looks. I have been told that it holds up to SCA combat well and it was akin to paint the canvas/linen covering on the shield. Just touching up a few bits and the heraldry before I deliver it for him to strap up.

Well I have come to the conclusion that I will be dropping German, working and then going to class is not working out. The summer class looks brutal, but it is a slow time at work (no flu season) and it is during the late morning, so hoping it will work out better than the evening classes did.

Still not getting exercises like I need to be doing, I do plan to start getting out for Rapier practice on Tuesday nights and I will have Fencing on Friday and Saturday afternoons so that should help a bit. My weigh in was the same as last week 207.8 lb.'s.

Bad Week

Well the week started bad and ended bad, although I did get back on track and back down to 207.8 lb.'s, really need to get out and exercises more or at least some. Fencing starts Friday and hoping to get my schedule worked out so I can fence on Tuesday nights too.

Work sucks as normal and school is not going all that well either, going to school for almost 3 hours after working in hell all day is not conductive to doing well. Might just take them in the Summer. Down side is it is only a 6 week course, like Monday thru Thursday; upside it is late morning and then I would go to work.

Started working on Zach's shield edging finally, got most of the forward edging on, just need to let it dry and then drill and sew it on, then off to the rear edge and finally the top edge.

Erebus graduated from his basic Obedience training Saturday and on his weigh in at 20 weeks, he was 65.5 lb.'s and growing.

Comfort Food

Comfort Food, should be called food that will kill you, did my weigh in today and I gained +2.4 lb.'s this week (back up to 210).

1. Eating Bad, comfort food (Deathbox and McDeath)
2. Stress (work, school, work...)
3. Lack of meaningful excises

Does look like I will be getting some good excises at least once per week coming up as I had to add a fencing course to my schedule (needed to have 6 hours and not just 5). Goals are:

1. Strengthen Shoulder and surrounding muscles
2. Cardio/Aerobic exercises to manage stress and get less fat
3. eat better

Less Play, More Study

Well finally getting over the cedar fever/sinus thing, felt like crap all last week and last weekend spent most of it in bed feeling like crap. Stupid trees and shrubs.

Looks like I am going to be concentrating on school before hobbies, as I am tired of having just 2 classes to finish my degree and just need to get it done. German is going OK, need to study more and working on my listening skills, still hard to hear the differences in the words and phrases.

Haven't been doing much, no SCA or armour and not much on-line gaming either. We did watch some Sopranos this weekend, starting over and going to try and watch the whole series with Netflix.