Sorry about not posting earlier. I was in Tech Support Purgatory in regard to my antivirus program. Because it’s late, I’ll just give you this picture to enjoy, of the battle reenactment on Saturday. I’m the one in the white tunic, meditating on man’s inhumanity to man, and whether there’s any loot to be had.

(Thanks to Mrs. Lais for the picture.)

And what to do about restlessness in humanist terms. In biblical terms, this answer is incomplete, but it’s still good.

It was a strenuous, exhausting, yet enjoyable weekend. It’s going to be a fairly strenuous week too, by my standards. I have to prepare for my departure for Minot (the Høstfest Scandinavian festival, if you’re a new reader) on Monday. On Thursday I have to help the guys load a van for that event, and on Saturday I help a friend move.

(By the way, Phil will be gone next week too. Both of us will try to post as opportunities present themselves, but frequency will be down.)

Another Viking and I drove down to New Ulm on Saturday evening. The weather was unseasonably warm, and remained that way through the event. We were given a room in an old hotel which is now operating as a sort of arts center. As latecomers, we had to take a room on the third floor, where the air conditioner’s writ did not run, but opening a window helped a little. We slept on army cots, and I actually slept pretty well, since I’d prudently stayed up late the night before in order to give myself a sleep deficit.

There was a shower downstairs, and I (up early) was the first to snag it after the Roman who’d been sleeping in the room got up and went to breakfast. The shower, as it turned out, was cold. I endured it like a Cherusci (that was my tribe).

Afterwards, the Roman informed me (with a smile) that the shower did have hot water—“Just not for the first guy.”

And they wonder why everybody wants to massacre them. Continue reading My weekend as an honorary German →

Here’s a YouTube video of our battle this weekend. I’m in the main section of the barbarian army, the one that comes up from the mid-left with Arminius himself, but I was standing on the opposite side, so it’s pretty hard to make me out. I think I caught a glimpse of me once. I was wearing a white tunic.

The clip is almost ten minutes long.