The Multiverses have conspired against me to deny me access to photographic evidence of the following, so I am left with the far less impressive "words only" list format you see below. My sincerest apologies go out to you all.

- On May 26th, at the Wars of the Roses in the Barony of Concordia of the Snows, I was made Man-At-Arms to Sir Aonghaus MacLabhruinn of Brus and presented with the payment of a beautiful (heavy list) katana made by Sir Aonghaus. I will be a Man-At-Arms in his employ for 6-12 months, as a trial period to understand if he and I are prepared for me to be his squire. I have been taking merciless advantage, so far, of the fact that my knight now HAS to answer my questions about fighting, or refer me to someone who can answer them better. For the record, Sir Aonghaus already has one squire, called Federach, who was his Man-At-Arms for 7 years prior to his relatively recent elevation.

- On June 8th, I turned 25 years old, sang with the teacher band at a rock n' roll show we headlined, and went and played video games and drank Irish coffee, while my friend's wife took pictures of my tight pants. How else would one celebrate newfound expectations of maturity?

- On July 14th, at the Great Northeastern War in the province of Malagentia, I was named to the Eastern Unbelted Champions team for the upcoming Pennsic. I think that makes two of us who will be eligible to fight in the Unbelts battle AND the Novice Tourney (and the other is a 19 year-old S&S fighter).

- As a result of the first thing on this list, I will be camping with Haus Wasserwulf in N21 (I believe) at Pennsic this year. Look me up, by all means.

That is all.