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Yah, I'm behind; other folks posted this days ago. Still, we've got a couple days before landgrab so I figure there's time ...

If you're going to Pennsic, say where you'll be camping and roughly when you plan to show up, so I'll have a decent shot at finding you to say hello. (No promises -- it's all too easy to overexert myself and wind up stuck in camp the next day resting to recover, leading to a lot of my plans not happening -- but I'll try to pace myself.) Also mention who you are / how I'll recognize you if we've only met online or if you're not sure I've connected your face and at least one of your non-LJ names to your LJ userid. (There are still a fair number of folks on my friendslist about whom I keep thinking, "This is someone I know, and I've narrowed it down to probably one of these four people, but I'm not sure which they are.")

I'll try to visit all the other entries similar to this one on my friendspage and copy the info into my PDA (and post my answers there), but I'm behind on LJ and behind schedule in packing/prep, so that may or may not happen in time. Posting a comment here makes it more likely I'll see it. Thanks.

As for me, I'm camping with Caer Edgemere as usual, in E15 as usual, arriving landgrab Saturday. While we won't know our precise location within the block until landgrab is sorted, of course, our usual spot is along Brewer's Road, the last camp on the right before the tree line if you're walking downhill, which usually also means across the street from Mountain Confederation and south of House Bloodjack (they usually grab the corner of Brewer's Road and Howard's Fenway). And east of Clan Cambion. If you found us last year using Burning Hand as a landmark, they will not be our neighbours this year, alas -- but House Bloodjack and Mountain Confederation are easy enough to spot to make up for our own lack of Dramatic And Obvious visual signifiers. Barring catastrophe, I'll be in the green canvas army tent again (which will get covered with blue tarps if when we get heavy rain). My SCA name is "Arthur d'Glenn", which conveniently means that if you come asking for me by my mundane name, my SCA name, or my LJ name, folks who only know one of the three will still be able to point out my tent.

And if you're not entirely sure what this is all about, why a bunch of folks on your friendslist are making a big deal over this particular event, and why we don't just count on bumping into each other on site, perhaps my web page atempting to describe it will clear things up.

I'm looking forward to returning to my "home town that only exists two weeks out of fifty two" and catching up with various of my friends while we're all there.

Last year at Pennsic, I built a platform out of three full sheets of plywood and some 2x4s and 1x4s. The idea starting out was to be able to level my tent on gently sloping ground (because my poles were starting to bend from setting it up on a slope yeat after year) and get the floor of the tent out of the way of runoff from rainfall. Camp was crowded, and it turned out to be useful to be able to add legs to one end and perch my tent on a rather steeper slope and free up some gentler grade for somebody else. I'm going to do it again, but incorporating improvements suggested by neighbours last year: I've not made any progress over the past year except to flatten out the plywood again by stacking most of my dining room and a large bass amplifier on it for eleven months (it was warped when I took the platform apart at the end of War last year), so I'll be assembling it all on site again, but the plan is to do it in such a way that it comes apart into three separate sections and a small number of carriage bolts for the ride home, instead of a pile of about twenty pieces of wood and a rather large number of screws.

Also, I'm guessing that in this configuration I'll want the joists to run short-ways across each panel, right?

The whole thing winds up being 12'x8', which is just a few inches bigger than the floor of my tent (nominally a 9x12 but it's more like 8x11.5 -- anyhow, it fit on the platform last year, and plywood sheets are 4x8, right?).