[TheForge] Re: Generators

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> So S' Phlip,
>
> With this preoccupation with mideaval defribulators, surgeons, et.al... as
a
> cook, just where do your interests/specialties lie?  Inquiring minds want
to
> know. :)
>
> Kevin Donahoe

Well, Kevin, it's all part of this rather complex game I play, called the
SCA.

I do the Medical thing, because it's my service to the SCA- giving back, to
this grand and glorious playground I'm in. Acting as a Chirurgeon can be
pretty difficult- not everyone has the temperment for it. Making sure my
friends and associates can play, with medical backing if something happens,
helps, in my opinion, to make the Game safer and more pleasant for everyone,
even if cynicism and experience at times make me feel like some people come
out to play, carefully leaving their brains safe at home ;-0

I don't really think I need to explain smithing- either you have the love of
the steel, or you don't. I'm just lucky that it's a very acceptable madness,
in the Game ;-)

Cooking has been a lifelong love, in part because as a kid I was fed very
well, and as an adult I can afford groceries, but not someone to feed me in
the style to which I am accustomed. It also provides an outlet for my
interest in Historical research, just as the smithing does. And face it, if
you can use fire comfortably for one purpose, you can just as comfortably
use it for another ;-)

And the leatherwork... Leather is the plastic of the Middle Ages. There's
lots to be done with it, in terms of supporting my smithing, for scabbards
and accessories and the like, as well as, when I tan, making good use of the
OTHER parts of the animals I have slaughtered, from my cooking endeavors.

As a general rule, I smith in the warmer months, do leatherwork in the
cooler months and on really hot days (unless I have a project I need to do
in steel), and can cook and do medic duties any time- usually simultaneously
with doing one of my other things- after all, most medical emergencies are,
fortunately, few and far between, and much of cookery is waiting for the
food and the heat to come to a tasty agreement ;-)

It works, and I'm having fun ;-)

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....