Friday, June 15, 2012
all right, i promised an update, and i shall deliver!
the first weekend of this month was the hampton blackbeard festival, and it started off with a bang. friday night, during the ball, we were hit by a tornado. it leveled the camp, but thankfully there were no causalities from the pirate side of things. there are many people to thank for that, due to their quick actions. we set back up, and were open for the public by 2 pm the next day. and the the public did come. i'm not sure what the numbers totaled, but the vendors told me that they made as much as last year, and beer sales were better than last year.
after that, i spent the next week cleaning up. my position as event set up for air and space lent me this dubious honor, and a golf cart. so it became the regular show with matt and adam. good times.
after clean up, CSF had adam and i manning the customs hose for the lower james district the rest of the week. this stretch of time i spent working on a new hammock (it's still not done) and teaching boaters about revisionist history. we were lucky to have the wolf, meka II and pride of baltimore as backdrops for the week as well. great folks, they.
at the end of last week, we made ready to head up to pohick bay in northern VA. adam did this by packing up the customs house and i by trying to amputate my index finger on my left hand. to each his own. it was not so bad a cut that solid first aid could not fix it, but after our arrival at pohick that night, i was treated further by a pair of stitches, lovingly administered by an equally lovely apothecary.
while my wound kept me from invading the pool, (a pohick tradition) it did not keep me from the pleasure of the vigilant crewe's jolly boat. she is quite a fine craft and i must thank duncan again for hosting us.
at the end of the weekend i returned to hampton, where life has returned to normal, or as normal as we get. i am well, i've received a second paycheque from air and space, and there are more opportunities on the horizon. i hope everyone is well, and i will see you soon.
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