I was talking to a friend of mine this morning at work, she looked happy and chipper.
I said to her, “You look chipper, you must have slept well.” Her reply “I slept like a baby”.
I looked confused and said – “So you woke up every two hours screaming because you had either pee’d or pooped yourself? Sounds like a rough night to me!”
She laughed and said – ok, so I slept soundly, and not like a baby at all…
So often we go to Border Raids and I hear the rank and file guy next to me comment that “we’re always out numbered”, “we need to get more fighters to this war”, “look how many fighters the Midrealm brings”, “we should support this war like they do” or any myriad of other comments bemoaning the numbers discrepancy.
Now most years the numbers are pretty even ranging usually between 80 to 120 per side. But what that “rank and file” fighter next to me doesn’t understand is the HUGE gap in the numbers of fighters each kingdom has. Well thanks to Sir Omarad posting to this thread on the Armour Archive we now have these numbers.
Meridies 431 Armoured Combat Fighters to the Midrealm’s 1996. That means Meridies entire number of fighters is 22% of the size of the Midrealms.
So when we put forth great effort and bring 100 fighters to Border Raids, we bring 23% of our entire army. To match our numbers and the Dragon Kingdom brings 100 fighters, they bring 5% of their fighters. IF they put fort the effort we do and brought 23% of their forces, it would be 459 fighters and we’d be outnumbered roughly 4-1.
That is just the way it is. It isn’t good or bad. There is no point to this other than perspective. and trying to give it to some folks.
There is other information to be gleaned from this, but its purely statistical and geeky….not that there are any geeks in the SCA.
Is admitting you have a problem…
No this doesn’t count the helm From Pennsic that Sir Cydrych – [who desperately needs a new picture on his knights page] is currently using.
The beginning of an addiction?
I know I’ve been away from this for a long time, That is mainly due to the giant Facebook monster.
From now on I’ll try to post a bit more here, and a bit less there.
Today My Mom (Judy) would have been 70. I’ve mostly gotten past her passing. With the exception of a song here or there, an occasional reminder from a conversation, or on this day of the year. On Feb 15, every year, I become an emotional wreck.
I still miss her greatly – She was the only person in my life, who ever truly believed I could do or be anything I set my mind to.
For my SCA friends, if you’ve ever wondered where my motivation came from to be a Knight, or comes from to strive to be a good knight. – it was from her.
I miss you Mom…
If you are going to use the “Express Lane” at your local retail or grocery store – have your payment out and ready.
Cash and Credit are preferred, as they are fast and usually take little time to process, thus making the experience of yourself, the cashier and the customers behind you inline an “Express” experience.
please do not use:
Small change
checks, (if you must use small change please fill it out ahead of time – with every bit of information you can possibly have on it – Drivers License Number – Date of birth – home phone, work phone, next of kin social security number name and location of first born -for Pete’s sake get with the 21st century and start using cash or credit.
And finally I implore you – don’t bring coupons to the Express Lane. Coupons do not equal “Express” (neither do checks).
Do these simple things, and the people behind you in line will indeed not be firing laser beams into the back of your head while YOU fail the douche-canoe test of not understanding the word “Express”
This has been a public service announcement from the Large Bald Man (LBM) behind you in line….with the laserbeams and loud mouth.
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