{"id":1760,"date":"2017-01-29T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T22:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2017-01-29T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T22:48:58","slug":"birka-birka-birka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"Birka, Birka, Birka."},"content":{"rendered":"

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As I write this, Birka 2017<\/a> is now in the books. For those of you who don’t recognize the name, Birka is the big winter event that the Barony of Stonemarche runs every year, and it’s basically a con masquerading poorly as an event. There’s food, there’s a hotel, there’s a hot tub, there’s a few tournies, and there is court. Oh yes, and there was shopping. Oh lord, there was shopping.<\/p>\n

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I’ve run Herald’s Point at Birka for too many years to remember, and this year, although I wasn’t running it, I was volunteering there. It’s a ton of fun, but a lot of work too, and that’s why there was no posting last week, either here or at the Patreon blog<\/a>. My brain was full of Birka.<\/p>\n

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Now that I’m home, my brain is still full of Birka, but for other reasons. I’m charged up, like I get at cons, and finally coming to an idea of what I want to do in the Society now that I’m not Baronial Herald. There will be changes coming here, as I work through things, but regular posting will resume within a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  As I write this, Birka 2017 is now in the books. For those of you who don’t recognize the name, Birka is the big winter event that the Barony of Stonemarche runs every year, and it’s basically a con masquerading poorly as an event. There’s food, there’s a hotel, there’s a hot tub, there’s …<\/p>\n

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