Of artillery and infections

Hey All!
All in all, I've been having a great week, with doing work in exhibits such as Frankel's readymade clothing store, the Provost Marshal's office, and the dry goods store.

On Friday, I was supposed to give my first tour in the park, doing a "Harpers Ferry, place in time" tour, giving a basic overview of the history of the town, and so on and so forth. This was the plan, but my physical body had other ideas, and decided to make me take a sick day instead, starting out with a tooth ache (on the side that finally has no cavities, nonetheless), and then taking me down with a high fever on thursday night. Thankfully though, the people at the Charlestown urgent care center are on top of their game, and I'm on antibiotics, and will be giving a tour on wednesday and saturday!

Now, for this past weekend (my weekend, not the literal weekend), I went up to Baltimore with three friends from work, to see the tall ships in Baltimore harbor and Fort McHenry, the reason being that Monday was the 200th anniversary of the start of the War of 1812. The tall ships were incredible, and the ceremony at Fort McHenry was awesome, so it was a pretty great day.

Anyway, THIS weekend (literal), we were up on Bolivar heights (which is apparently pronounced BAHlivar, instead of BOlivar) battlefield for artillery weekend. And in spite of being still a little sick from the day before, I had an awesome time, and by noon of the first day, was feeling perfectly healthy. My position on the cannon is position #1 aka, being the sponge-rammer. My duty is first to wet the sponge on one end of my tool to cool down the barrel and more importantly, to make sure there are no sparks that could detonate the cartridge prematurely, killing me (being in front of the barrel most of the time), or my comrades around the gun. Second, my job is to ram home the cartridge, seating it in the very back of the barrel so the friction primer can be inserted and fired.

It was a lot of fun, and I'm ready to go another round if anyone gives the word.

As to my weekend off, going to a dentist isn't fun, but I suppose its necessary, and as for the rest of the weekend, its pretty open, so I'm guessing I'll be hanging out and enjoying AC for most of it. :)

Still working on getting photos, I think I'll make my albums a public post, so ya'll can see it if you're not on FB. Any way, I'm out, and I'll see you soon!