A Midsummer&#8217;s Light Posting
<p>I&#8217;ve not been blogging much lately for two reasons.  One: vacation.  I went to sword camp (formally, &#8220;Polaris Summer Weapons Retreat&#8221;) again this year, had great time with friends, learned how to fight using a glaive (a form of bladed polearm).  Two: heavy technical work.  I&#8217;ve been designing and implementing a new protocol for GPSD; my next major post may be about some interesting issues that have come up during this process.</p>
<p>It-increases-my-paranoia news: Massive protests continue in Iran, some news about them leaking out through the news blockade, more reaching me through my NedaNet contacts.  My Pennsylvania CCW arrived, so I now carry concealed legally &#8211; I had had plans to carry concealed illegally and <a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=297">make a Constitutional issue of it</a>, but I&#8217;ve decided I don&#8217;t need to be in trouble with both the U.S. legal system and potential Iranian assassins at the same time. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking into upgrading my pistol competence level via <a href="http://www.idpa.com/">IDPA</a> tactical shooting;   there&#8217;s a match at a gun club not far from here August 22nd and I&#8217;ll probably be at it. I did IPSC, which is similar, once back in 1998: you can <a href="http://catb.org/esr/guns/ipscc1.html">read about it here</a>.  Then I got busy and famous and stuff, dangit.</p>
<p>Light blogging may continue for a while: World Boardgaming Championships is next week, and I&#8217;m playing a lot of on-line games in training for that; my goal is to at least make the finals in the Commands &#038; Colors Ancients tournament.</p>
