I got an e-mail today asking me to volunteer to help Gaeltacht Minnesota at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival the weekend of Sept. 6-7. Unfortunately, I had already agreed to be at a colgaffneyis event on Sunday, the 7^th, and I am reluctant to commit my entire weekend. I may volunteer for the Saturday if GM is short of people that day.

Still, I am tempted by the thought of completely abandoning colgaffneyis that weekend. The Pseudohistorian will be part of that organization’s group that Sunday, and after our recent history I am reluctant to be anywhere around him. I do not want a fight. But if I let him drive me from colgaffneyis then he has won. If you run into me in the following week and I am even quieter than usual it will because I have been biting my tongue too much.

And in fairness, Gaeltacht Minnesota also has a difficult character. But the leadership there is willing and able to contain him.