[Artemisia] Kingdom Heraldry

[Georgia Foster]

At the moment, my real world includes proper funeral arangements for a great 
grandfather who passed away Monday at the age of 102.  This is only four 
months after making funeral arrangements for a grandfather in Feburary, and 
dealing with a less-than-friendly mundane clergy.  Some peace here would be 
welcome at the moment.  I would beg forgiveness of those to whom this 
missive may come out as a bit short in temper.  I would like to have put 
this missive off until after Saturdays funeral, but with the tennor of 
recent posts, waiting might be more disasterous than posting while under 
personal duress.

The real world does happen.


When I took this herald gig in September, there were some things I had hoped 
to accomplish.

For the record ... FIRST AND FORMOST ... was to get the group heralds to 
report on a reliable basis.  That part, I am jazzed to report ... is finally 
happening.  The heralds office is not mandatory for groups smaller than 
Barony size, so finding out who the heralds office should be expecting 
reports from has been a major part of that challenge.

Along the way ... there has been a need identified for a silent heralds 
program.  That project is in infancy but is progressing.  I would LOVE to 
have someone step up and take it over.  Anyone???

Several posts recently have adressed the web page ... that is being worked 
on.  Just for the record ... Malkin knows NOTHING about web, unless one is 
discussing that pesky spider in the cupboard under the stairs.  Jo knows 
precious little more than that.  If one can't click it to make it work, I 
have no idea.  One may read into this that there is a LARGE learning curve 
happening where web is concerned.  It did not help that there was  Society 
level server move in the middle of all of that.

Additionally, several posters have commented on the online OP.  Recent court 
reports get input really quickly.  Updates have to be cross-checked before 
they get input.  If there was no court report ... then updating is more 
difficult.  Award fraud can ... and does ... happen.  Wormwood sent out an 
article last month detailing why it sometimes takes so long to get a 
correction on the OP.  One may want to revisit that post ... there is some 
really useful stuff in it.


If anyone has a question with how the heraldry office is being managed ... 
please feel free to email Sageherald at yahoo.com.  I will be happy to try to 
answer your questions or direct you to someone who can.

If one believes that they have a better way ... please feel free to email 
Sageherald at yahoo.com, we are always open to suggestions on how to improve.

If one has an issue with me personally ... please email me personally.

Cheers

Malkin






Jo (Georgia L.) Foster
jo_foster81 at hotmail.com

Cynicism is not realistic or tough - it is unrealistic and kind of cowardly, 
because it means you don't have to try ... Peggy Noonan