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…I’ll be looking over the next one, and I’ll be deputy chronicler for a while until my replacement is cool with the gig, but this is the last one I do. I’ll miss it, which is a sign that I’m handing it over at the right time. If I couldn’t wait to hand it off, I’d be burned out and probably should have done the handover a year ago.

Also, this way I can concentrate on my true destiny: being field coordinator for baronial events. Which basically means I get to draw maps and assign people to spots in them. Given the number of gamer geeks in the SCA, I’m surprised that this isn’t a job people fight to do.

…and hasn’t this one been fun to assemble. We had a busy month last month, what with a new Seneschal, polling on whether to give the current baronage another term*, and of course the event I ran. Stuffing it all into a PDF has been an adventure.

I’m going to miss this job when it’s done (and I’m not bad at it, even if I do say so myself), but I’ve been doing it for over five years. I probably would’ve cycled out of it, if it weren’t for the pandemic. I can find other things to do around the barony, I’m sure.

Moe Lane

*This is a standard thing, not a reflection on them. They do a great job; nobody’s expecting any kind of upset here.

The next Novice Tourney, too. I won’t have to do nearly as much for that as I did as autocrat for the event, thankfully. But it’s something that’s got to be done. At least I’ll be able to get plenty of fresh air, which is frankly something I need more of…

Had to prep for it, too. List of things that needed be gone over, paperwork to resolve, discussions on storage and staffing for the event I’m running – I like to pretend sometimes that I miss the old days, when we just did events. I don’t really, though. In the old days, none of us had any money and events were always one step away from a total disaster. Why, for the longest time we didn’t even really have spreadsheets. I’m trying to imagine running anything without spreadsheets, and failing.

Anyway: busy night.

Emails, double-checking, trying to figure out which parts of the event website need to be updated. Although that last one’s easy: it turns out they all do. I had had a faint hope that we could recycle information, but that’s largely not happening. Full update it is, then…

Some pleasant things were said about my time as Chronicler (I am stepping down in a few months). It was very gratifying. We also had to go over quite a bit with regard to the event I’m running, both before and during the meeting, so my schedule is off today. Such is life.

Every month I have to do the newsletter for my SCA Barony. I generally can get it put together easily enough, but there’s always last-minute stuff to handle. That eats up time, especially since I also have to email things and update the website and so forth. I’m gonna miss/not miss doing it when I train up my replacement this year, but it’s time to hand off the job; I’ve been doing it since before the pandemic, which is a while for a baronial office. It’ll be nice to take a little time off before I go find something else to do in the SCA.