Falling behind

[msmemory_archive]

Bah! goldenstag is all caught up and has his OP records ready to take to HIS Twelfth Night. But baronadhemar still owes me a court report from December. I had great intentions of doing the alpha and the pdf year-end while I was on holiday last week.

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[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Well, I have to wait for awards to be published in The Page, before publishing them. Otherwise they could be done even more often (once court reports are done). There was an attempt to get around the "require it to be published" law, but ... so far, that hasn't happened.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, what do you do about corrections (spelling, date, awards inadvertently omitted from the court report)? Do you send all those through The Page publication process too, before including them?

We do publish our court reports in Pikestaff, but by the time a crown or herald takes 3+ weeks to get the report filed, plus lead time, a mid-October award might not appear til January's issue.

The East used to have a law requiring the OP to be published every two years, as a supplementary issue or insert to Pikestaff, but the expense got to be prohibitive. Now there's just my website, which I update about once a month. (Hmmmm... it's past time to do a big upload from www.waks.org/Prec/ to op.eastkingdom.org I think I'd better not wait for baronadhemar to file his report, since he's incoming Principal Herald and autocrat of Twelfth Night.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Spelling and Date issues I handle if someone sends me an update. Missing awards have to be handled otherwise -- normally they have to be reaffirmed by the royalty in court, so that they make it into a court report, and then published in The Page.

The lead time is typical here for publication. It's rare, but sometimes they get published within two months, and even more rare, within one month -- timing -- it's all in the timing.

I don't publish the awards list on paper anymore for anyone but the incoming Royalty, The Banner Herald, and the Kingdom Scribe for Kingdom Coronations, and for Principality just the incoming Royalty and Principality Heralds (and just a subset of the data -- awards given by the Royalty of the Principality, and all awards for all residents -- the filter is a bit odd, but it shows if someone not living in the Principality has an award that can be granted, but residents show all awards).

The West Kingdom awards list, in totality, two columns per page, is running 234 pages as of the 12th Night printing. Publishing it in a newsletter would definitely be prohibitive. However, the information is readily accessible on the web, as I know you're aware ... <g>