Our rehearsal schedule so far has been more than light - almost nonexistent. We'll be paying for that ease come tomorrow.

Yesterday we had the day off, and the theatre got any of us who wanted to go tickets to the PA Renaissance Festival. I went with a few people, and a guy in our group ran into a friend from college working there. The friend worked part time at the jousts, part time selling weapons at one of the many sword shops.

He went to talk to the guy who ran the shop - and suddenly they delcared a "special ten-minute pirate red light special" on all Lord of the Rings replica swords. For ten minutes, they sold these $200-300 weapons (Nasril, Strider's sword, Gimli's Axe, Sword of the Witchking, etc.) for $40 each. Needless to say, we got some. I now own a big ol' broadsword exactly like Aragorn's. My friend Thom here bought himself a copy of Nasril, and ... there you go.

Happy freaks. Back to work.