Signs, Signs, Everywhere There’s Signs…
Guess who’s going to win this election season?
The Signmakers!
My wife and I waited in line for over an hour. It was awesome!
Sweet Revenge
Emo Philips – “My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.”
Booking Projects for November
We are booking projects for November. They can get near-immediate attention.
I am offering 35% off on cost of models for the next three (now two) armies booked (assuming you get the models through us– an army is at least 1000 pts).
I am also extending the Evil, Hungry and Dead special: 25% off on painting if you give us Artistic License for a Tyranids, Necrons, Undead (of any stripe), Cryx, or Legion. Combining these two is a real deal.
I have a la carte price guides available on request. These are spreadsheets where if you plug in the numbers of each model it will calculate a total for you. Email me at bluetablepainting@gmail.com I’m available for any matter large or small.
Fight for it
Here are a few interesting items for your consideration:
These are echoes of Ron Paul, in my opinion.
Let Him Do It With Simplicity
Picture: Walden Pond in Autumn.
As with many people, the stresses and worries of trying times has tested my resolve. And recently. Since my life is pretty much perfect in every way, I tend to blow business problems (eg slow sales) way out of proportion. But there is an undercurrent of peace that I’ve found. It’s possible to have peace inside. There is an Almighty God. It’s the peace of David:
32 And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him [Goliath]; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
37 David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee.
–I Kings 17
I’m not saying I’m a “King David”. And besides, he showed up with five rocks, not one. He didn’t know how it was going to end.
Picture: Thoreau’s modest home on Walden Pond.
I’m getting somewhere here. In these troubling times, I found some solace and guidance in this following talk by the Apostle L. Tom Perry.
Those of us who have been around a while—and Elder Wirthlin and I have been around for a long time—have recognized certain patterns in life’s test. There are cycles of good and bad times, ups and downs, periods of joy and sadness, and times of plenty as well as scarcity. When our lives turn in an unanticipated and undesirable direction, sometimes we experience stress and anxiety. One of the challenges of this mortal experience is to not allow the stresses and strains of life to get the better of us—to endure the varied seasons of life while remaining positive, even optimistic. Perhaps when difficulties and challenges strike, we should have these hopeful words of Robert Browning etched in our minds: “The best is yet to be”
As a side note, I actually met L. Tom Perry at the MTC in 1990. He’s a mighty mountain of a man, and his hand is like a giant meat-paw, and his laugh is like rolling thunder. Presence.
A few comments about the talk: turns out that if Thoreau tried to do this nowadays (ie build a modest shelter to live in) the City would show up in short order to assess property taxes and/or to order him to tear it down for not being up to code and having the mountain of permits needed.
A man’s not allowed to live anymore. I found this out talking to my friend Greg M. who helps developers get straight with zoning etc.
Also, I’m not sure how this works with a wife and four kids. A la my yurt idea from a few weeks back. Then again, the point of the talk isn’t *go out and live in a hut* but rather live more frugally. There’s a season to pull back.
And I’m like “Those were the FAT years” ?!?!? Well, crap, because I had to work my butt off just to stay afloat. Well, if troubled times are ahead, I’m looking forward to it. It’s going to be a wild ride.
As usual, I make my disclaimer: I don’t mean to be preachy (quoting bible passage is so irritating!) or to suggest that I’m better than the common man. Believe me, Ihave my share of faults and struggles. My only hope is that someone, even one person, is encouraged or uplifted. I get an email now and again that keeps me going, so thanks for those.
Sunday October 26 2008 Beauty all Around
I don’t know where to begin. I always wake up, my mind a boiling stew of worries and ideas about what to write about on the blog. Funny, because I don’t even know if anyone reads this. There were like 250 readers on the old blog, so I assume it’s a few.
I still need to do book reviews on the books by Obama and McCain (hint: I’m going to rip them both, but one more than the other) and I should probably do that soon. I’ve read well over a thousand pages (just from candidates books) and I still blunder when I talk politics. Seems like there’s no end to it.
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Flashback to Friday night. Tamie and I went to the Provo temple. It was sublime and peaceful. But as soon as I left the grounds my worries came back to me like a flock of crows, pecking at my mind. Nothing to do but plow ahead. I have a lot of very positive and very negative things going on right now, none of which I can publish, but may someday soon. I accept these challenges as part of life. I will be glad later for the Wisdom I will learn. I’ll get to know good from evil, and learn by my own experience.
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I don’t like it of course. I would love to just have an endless round of peace and prosperity. I am very frustrated. It seems like every time I make some headway, I’m pushed back
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Here’s an exercise for all you parents. If you could exempt your child from all pain and suffering, would you do it? My answer is no. That would be the worst thing to ever happen to them.
Back to today. In our household, we are ratcheting up our Sabbath observance by limiting the amount and kind of TV we watch. Not quite ready to go cold turkey yet. But it was nice to have some Discovery Planet going instead of cartoons. Oh, and the Muppet Show. That’s wholesome entertainment.
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My youngest son is still having trouble in nursery. I took him home halfway through. He needed a nap so badly. The other kids are doing tremendously. There were two missionary farewells today, so the chapel was packed to the gills. We were in the very back. We even had to create a new row of chairs.
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Tamie made some chicken and bean soup today. As usual, everything she makes is just perfect. I don’t know how she takes regular ingredients and turns it into something amazing.
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I went on a walk with my three-year-old this morning. He trundles around on his little trike like a pro nowadays. He stops every twenty feet in wonderment over some item: a bit of rubber, a dried up flower, a potato-chip bag, a dying wasp; asking me what it’s called and what it’s for. “OK” he pronounces and starts pedaling along again. It’s a magic time. I turn off the clock and just take my time. It turns a five minute walk into a half hour outing.
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Winter is just around the corner and the city is just starting to repair the roads from last year. Well, at least some of that tax money is getting back into our lives.
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We went as a family to a local park and the kids ran around like maniacs, but the experience really set off my (mild) allergies. The Benadryl should be kicking in any second now. Oh, there it is…
Now Booking for November
We are booking projects for November. They can get near-immediate attention.
I am offering 35% off on cost of models for the next three armies booked (assuming you get the models through us– an army is at least 1000 pts).
I am also extending the Evil, Hungry and Dead special: 25% off on painting if you give us Artistic License for a Tyranids, Necrons, Undead (of any stripe), Cryx, or Legion.
Combining these two is a real deal.
I have a la carte price guides available on request. These are spreadsheets where if you plug in the numbers of each model it will calculate a total for you.
Email me at bluetablepainting@gmail.com I’m available for any matter large or small.
Chaos Lord
This is a new release from Forge World, Chaos Lord Zhufor. Obviously Khorne-aligned. Note the alternate helmet. I think this is one of the crisper, more characterful models I’ve seen recently.
Lizardmen February Release Schedule Rumor
W/H ARMIES: LIZARDMEN $25.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN STEGADON $40.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN SAURUS TEMPLE GUARD $25.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN KROXIGOR $20.00 FEBRUARY 09
TIKTAQ’TO, MASTER OF SKIES $17.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN BARBED RAZORDON HUNTING PARTY $25.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN SCAR VETERAN WITH ARMY STANDARD $15.00 FEBRUARY 09
CHAKAX, ETERNITY WARDEN $15.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN TERRADON $17.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN STEGADON $40.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN SAURUS TEMPLE GUARD $25.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN KROXIGOR $20.00 FEBRUARY 09
TIKTAQ’TO, MASTER OF SKIES $17.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN BARBED RAZORDON HUNTING PARTY $25.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN SCAR VETERAN WITH ARMY STANDARD $15.00 FEBRUARY 09
CHAKAX, ETERNITY WARDEN $15.00 FEBRUARY 09
LIZARDMEN TERRADON $17.00 FEBRUARY 09