What provoked this was Carolus' comment on the Caid list. And it crystalized a lot of what I was trying to put into words about problems I saw in the SCA.

Certainly schedules need to be flexible, but anymore they're treated more like overcooked pasta. The problem is that people are fixing their plans using the wiggle-room of "SCA standard time" as a start, rather than using the scheduled time as a start. That mindset is causing worse and worse problems.

Maybe I'm too much of a bitter oldtimer, but the dream still means something to me. :-(