At Ready
I am at the studio today. It is quiet.
I am eager to get a few new projects booked. I’m just ready to hear from you.
Willow-tastic
Willow is coming up on her first birthday. She’s an absolute delight. She’s always happy to see her family.
Last night I went to the Provo Temple with my wife. A sublime experience to say the least. We ate at the temple cafeteria, showing up plenty early (Ward temple night), enough to enjoy extended and relaxed conversation. We held hands while sitting in crystalline near-silence of the celestial room, whispering our insights and innermost thoughts to each other.
Ron Paul- Champion of Liberty
I would encourage anyone who reads this to purchase and read “End the Fed” by Ron Paul. It is an excellent book. It costs about $13.00 through www.amazon.com
Ron Paul’s Son, Rand Paul is running for Senate in Kentucky. I encourage any Kentuckians who read this blog to seriously watch that race, donate to Rand Paul’s campaign (if you think it worthy) and vote.
I have a few ideas:
You vote also with your wallet by making campaign contributions. It doesn’t have to be a lot. Many of these “men of the people” rely on grassroots support. For example, there’s a “money bomb” for Rand Paul coming up in December. I plan on chipping in for that.
Every time government expands you lose control of your life. Maybe you don’t run your life very well, but that’s beside the point. At minimum, through various payroll taxes, the Federal Government controls at least 20% of your money. Fact: You don’t decide where that money goes, someone else does. That means that someone who lives until age 80 will have spend SIXTEEN YEARS in what is effectively forced labor for government programs. Now maybe that money came back to them in the form of benefits, and maybe the administrators of those programs are enlightened beings who have the welfare and interests of their fellow-men pulsing warmly within their hearts, but the fact is that the citizen didn’t get to choose.
What is it called when it’s 100%?
What is it called when it’s 0%?
What percentage would it need to be for you to say “waitaminit”? For me it’s 0%.
If government spending were brought back to 1997 levels, the payroll tax could be abolished and replaced with NOTHING. That would mean no IRS, no income tax, no filing (which I view as a financial strip-search: how is it the Feds business what I’m spending my money on?)
Just for the record: I am a firm, firm believer in paying taxes, and paying them completely. If anything I err on the side of paying too much. But not for the reason you might think. I plan on writing an article about that later. Basically, I believe there is spiritual power in the Christian principle of turning the other cheek.
I hear about citizens cheating on their taxes. What is it called when the government cheats the citizens with mis-use of tax money? Who goes to jail then?
I believe the real problem is not with corrupt officials but with the lack of vigilance on the part of the voters. Yes, me. I’m to blame. All those years of apathy.
A Favor
I have someone helping my abysmally poor search engine rankings. They should be much better.
What you can do to improve your organic search performance is to urge folks, when they link to you, to use text like this:
“http://www.
“http://www.
Blue Table Painting, a “http://www.
If you feel inclined, could you link to my website using one of the following tag/link-things?
Pretty Please?
Specials
We’re still running the various specials: Pandora, Turbo, Basic Training. And of course, get whatever you want a la carte.
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Second Wind
The day began at 6:30am. I almost completely cleared out my Inbox. After cooking me an All American breakfast (hash browns, eggs over-medium, toast, and ice cold milk), my wife went out running errands with Willow, leaving G. and I to hang out at home. We went out to pick him up a little toy (which he naturally loves) and to get lunch and McDonald’s.
This was a much-needed part-day off. I’ve been really sprinting this week.
Flash-back to Wednesday night. I stayed at work late and really plowed through all the work that needed to be done except maybe like twenty emails. It was totally worth it. I am working through all episodes of Red Dwarf again. After everyone has gone home is when my productivity really kicks into gear.
Anyway, once I got in to the studio I found Josephus working on some Confrontation figures. It’s some really great work. He loves the figures so much he’s giving them a L5-6 treatment just for kicks.
Renn is working on his Skaven, pretty much done with the first 2000 points. I have to say that he’s quite a skilled painter. I really want to play against him. But I am also tired of playing just Renn. I need someone else to pony up with a painted army and get in a game. Maybe Janene will take her Dworks up against my Dark Elves. I don’t think anyone wants to take on the Tzeentch Daemons after they’ve left two battlefields of charred corpses and not much else. I’m really excited to get in a game.
The weekly order came in: a bunch of paint (Vallejo), some brown ink, Menoth figures, and various GW stuff, all in all pretty light on the ordering this week.
We’re also working on some sculpts for some Slaanesh tanks. We’re working on a very custom Emperor’s Children type army. More to come on that.
By the end of the day I was pretty much caught up. My main concern now is to get projects set up for January!
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Advance Scout Report
Thanks to advance scout Paul for these leads!
Here’s a few tidbits from the internet.
Pics of the new tyranid models:
http://www.belloflostsouls.
The trygon is said to be $49.50 and has enough parts to build 1 of 2 figs, the trygon and the Mawloc. Termagaunts and hormagaunts (a dozen for $24) are going to be split boxes now, so if you want the current mixed box, buy them now.
Oh, here’s the big price list for the models:
99120106017 Tyranid Battleforce 46 Fig Box 5-Dec-09 $105.00
99060106064 Tyranid Spore Mines 9 Fig Blister 16 Jan-10 $16.50
60030106003 Codex: Tyranids (English)96pp 16-Jan-10 $25.00
99120106016 Tyranid Ravener Brood 3 Fig Box 16-Jan-10 $44.50
99120106018 Tyranid Gargoyle Brood 10 Fig Box 16-Jan-10 $29.00
99120106019 Tyranid Trygon / Mawloc 1 Fig Box 16-Jan-10 $49.50
99110106063 Tyranid Pyrovore 1 Fig Box 16-Jan-10 $33.00
99120106021 Tyranid Termagant Brood 12 Fig Box 12-Dec-09 $24.75
99120106020 Tyranid Hormagaunt Brood 12 Fig Box 12-Dec-09 $24.75
9906010606201 Tyranid Venomthrope 1 Fig Blister 16-Jan-10 $20.00
9906010606101 Tyranid Hive Guard 1 Fig Blister 16-Jan-10 $20.00
January should be a HUGE release
Dragonforge has some cool looking Eldar themed bases:
http://www.dragonforge.com/
http://www.dragonforge.com/
http://www.dragonforge.com/
Dan Abnett talks about the new Ultramarines movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
If you haven’t seen them, the new Legion of the Damned models are awesome:
http://www.games-workshop.com/
I picked up the new Fortress of Redemption, and I have to say “WOW” that thing is HUGE. I can’t wait to get a game on it this weekend. I highly recommend one. And as a tip, magnetize the weapons on it for planetstrike games so you can put them where your defenses need it.
Finally, games workshop has 10% vouchers going on right now:
http://www.games-workshop.com/
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New Tyranids
Got this in from miniwargaming.com
I just received an update from Games Workshop as to what will be
coming out in January for the Tyranid, and I wanted to pass this on
to you right away.
First off, all of these new products will be coming out January 16,
2010, so be ready to get your piece!
Here are the new products:
Happy wargaming!
Matthew and Dave
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Sprinting
Now THAT’s a gun!
Three days of running. It’s been a mad dash from morn to night the last three days. They have passed in a blur. I apologize for no vids. I really did want to put up a LOT more.
I am nearly caught up, just a handful of emails that need to be responded to. So, if you’re waiting on a response for me, I apologize for that. I should have it all cleared and ready to go by tomorrow morning.
Notably, I have several armies on hand and ready to be done up:
Lizardmen
Imperial Guard
Orcs and Goblins
Vampire Counts
Tau (we’ve got a refurb of 2000+ pts going, final price is going to be about $1200)
Here’s a BTP army that’s on eBay now.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/
New Website Look
New Website is up!
http://www.bluetablepainting.com/
The work was done by Sean P. Here’s his link:
http://www.rpgenome.com/