Yeah, it’s tourney season in Michigan. This means events most every weekend. And posts very infrequently. Sorry about that.
October was the month of travel for UFO fencers. A group went out to IL for the Burton (I skipped and stayed home), then the following weekend was a NAC in Columbus (my fencing was such that I could have skipped and stayed home), and most recently the Remenyk Open in Chicago (where I did skip fencing, and went to a winery in Wisconsin). There are some great pictures of all these events on the UFO website. Between FreeSizer and FileZIlla it’s much easier to crop down a 7 MB file to manageable sizes and upload them to the website. So I’ve been keeping up on that pretty good this fall.
One thing I had to change recently was the cost of armoury work. The month of September I spent way too much time staring at an ohm meter and cursing at wires. So I raised the rates. By a lot. It wasn’t an easy decision, but I did have some input from other armourers out there that I was under-priced. Hopefully the increase will actually cover my time spent, or cut down the amount of work and give me more time to fix the club equipment.
I also want to put in a few improvements in the main gym area. More hanging ball targets and maybe rebuild Nate, our wall dummy. We’ve also got enough donated equipment to build Julio, a second fencing dummy. Now it’s just finding time…