Vakkotaur

I had been informed last night that the rumor was that the Nishna River RenFaire was no more. Today I went looking for the Nishna topic on At The Faire's web board and didn't find it in the usual place. Now it's in the the defunct listings.

Well, that frees up a weekend in October, I guess. But it's a weekend I won't be seeing many folks I know - it would have been the only time I'd have seen RST[1] this year. Nishna was a nice way to wrap up a faire season.

Nishna isn't the first October faire in Iowa that has ended. There was also Wybreg, which was fun though it looked small at first.

Now, what will I do with October? Rest, I suppose.

[1] Last night I was looking through things I had set aside for my trip to Huntsville. I found a small alarm clock that I had somehow managed to miss. I had thought there was one more before I went and got the last one. Oh well. Now I also have my own alarm clock for motel stays.

Last year I read this account of RST's visit to Wichita which included this line: "There weren't clocks in the hotel room, none of us had watches, and for some reason, the time on my cell phone was completely off." A bit later I saw RST at the Nishna faire in western Iowa and asked about things like that and was surprised to find they'd wound up at some place that didn't have clocks in the rooms. I found that rather boggling.

An idea formed and for the past several weeks when I'd stop in at some store or other I'd see if they had any inexpensive alarm clocks. Eventually I collected enough, and a pack of AA cells for completeness. I had planned on bringing a rather unmarked Box-o'-Clocks to the Waterloo faire and springing it on RST myself, perhaps in the morning or maybe just after close Saturday. But Waterloo seemed to be in doubt and it's on the same weekend as Siouxland - which is my "I will NOT miss this" faire.

So I gave away a bit of it to ginafae who found the idea amusing. I sent the box to RST, care of her. The parcel arrived last week. And this weekend, this happened.