[SCA-Cooks] list lurkers

[Jeff Gedney]

>    I've been absent from the SCA for almost a decade and poked my nose in
>    here out of curiousity and nostalgia.  Mundanely I've gone the gamut
>    from Clinical Psychology to running a computer consulting business to
>    software program management, and of late have been doing SQL data mining
>    and trading stocks from my home in Seattle.

Ah, so you have never stopped dealing with crazy people then....
;->


Brandu
(mundanely a Programmer and Software Quality Engineer)

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Going back to school is like riding a bike ...

After fumbling with the pedals, getting saddle
sores from a too-small seat, and struggling
uphill, you realize why you got a car in the
first place.

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>    -----Original Message-----
>    From: sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org
>    [mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of MSN
>    Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:04 PM
>    To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>    Subject: [SCA-Cooks] list lurkers
>
>
>    Please allow me to introduce myself before I commit even more unintended
>    atrocities of Netiquette. :*)
>
>    [/Old Codger Voice]
>
>    My name is Nathan Adelaar and I grew up in the Old Middle Kingdom's
>    region of Calontir (and sojourned in Ansteorra) long, long ago.  My
>    primary interests were fighting and medieval cookery, with a minor in
>    dance.  With enormous help I cooked around 30 SCA feasts and a
>    smattering of weddings, parties and suchnot.  I taught a bunch of
>    courses and tried to militate about kitchen hygiene and the wonders of
>    the Dazey Seal-a-Meal.  One of my favorite activities involved a group
>    of friends who would gather at my house weekly over a two-year period to
>    redact recipes from one particular manuscript His Grace Cariadoc
>    reproduced in his "Miscellany".  I helped start a Calontir Cooks Guild
>    and originated the "Rolling Scone" magazine.  Around the time when the
>    Grand Council formed I burned out thoroughly and (to me) suddenly,
>    leaving a pile of unfinished manuscripts and projects and a load of
>    guilt.
>
>    I've been absent from the SCA for almost a decade and poked my nose in
>    here out of curiousity and nostalgia.  Mundanely I've gone the gamut
>    from Clinical Psychology to running a computer consulting business to
>    software program management, and of late have been doing SQL data mining
>    and trading stocks from my home in Seattle.
>
>    So to answer Mordonna's questions:
>    >>  By the way, Have I seen your signature before on this list? Are
>    >>  you a lurking newcomer?
>
>    Nope you haven't seen my signature before here, but you saw my byline on
>    a "Swete Dough Gourdys" parody documenting chocolate chip cookie dough
>    which I wrote in 1990, nicely cited by Cindy (cindy at thousandeggs.com)
>    earlier this year.  As for "lurking newcomer", well, I've lurked on your
>    list for just a few hours, reading a couple months' digests before
>    making my first response. And I suppose after a very long hiatus from
>    the SCA I might qualify as a born-again newcomer.
>
>    Well-met, good gentles.
>
>    -Nathan
>    clarenburg at msn.com
>
>
>
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