End of an era and other stuff

Today was the last day of my counterpart at work, the one who went on vacation and came back to tell us she'd bought a house in Tennessee. Her replacement has been training all month. She's very sweet and I think she's gonna be fine once she absorbs everything that's been thrown at her. In other, semi-related news, I finally managed to shovel out my desk enough that I shouldn't be in too deep a hole on Monday.  This means I should be able to leave for Great Western War on Thursday after work as scheduled, though I will confirm with our boss Monday morning that I can take Friday off as previously requested.

However, after the mad scramble of the past several weeks (compounded by my previously scheduled vacation), I opted not to camp this weekend's October Crown. Instead, I'm going to day trip. It's two hours each way, but I just could not face the logistics of the event site, which involve tight quarters and ferrying one's camp in bits from the parking lot to whatever slice of grass one can pitch one's tent on. (Yeah, I'm getting a little old for this stuff...)  Lunch is packed, linen has been torn up so I can work on my new under-kosode at the event, and I just have to decide what I'd like to wear and possibly wave an iron over it.

That gives me Sunday to start getting my poop in a group for Great Western War.