Beat Down

I’m insanely tired. I’m behind on my emails. I hope to clear it up tomorrow. So, I’m really sorry if you haven’t heard back from me today.

New Years Resolutions

• Eat more healthy (this is general on purpose). Almost anything would be more healthy than what I’m eating now.
• Fast six times (working up to twelve for 2010!).
• Spend more time with my kids. This one is the most serious of them. I do it already off and on, here and there, but with great frequency. I’m talking about daddy-daughter/son dates. At least twice a month.
• Cut out the mild profanity.
• I have three more but they’re really personal.

Snowy Saturday Lazy Afternoon

I just can’t get enough. So many games, so little time. I make it a habit to get in at least one game a week, and it’s mighty tough not to play two!

First off, we’re booking projects for February. Now’s the time to get things set up.

I’ve got a hankering to play 40K, but I only have the various studio armies and I don’t like to give them more than very light use. So, what’s next for 40K. If all goes according to play, I think it’s going to be Eldar. I am conflicted. I really want to try a force that features nine war walkers. I love the model and everything about it in the game. It’s one of the few, maybe only, items where two of the same heavy weapon don’t make it twin linked. Yeah, I really want to give that a spin.

Of course, I can’t lose sight of what will be fun.

Anyhoo, I got the studio around noon on Saturday for my game with Mike D. (Notrep about that forthcoming). We had mexican food for lunch and played a 1950 point game. I think that’s really an ideal point level. It’s almost the highest you can go without adding in a (potentially unbalancing) Lord with Humongous Monster Mount. It was a most satisfying game, very close, though we don’t know because we didn’t add up the points at the end.

The duds of the game, as usual, were the Cold One Knights who failed to Stupidity checks and just rambled forward, got charged and wiped out. Oh, how I hate them. Great models, but they are blow-tastic.

The studs of the game, as usual, were the Black Guard, who charged right up the middle and swept all before them all the way to the opposite table edge: they got hit with a direct stone thrower hit, charged through two Fanatics and then proceeded to shred everything in sight with the remaining nine models. So, It’s time to get another unit of those guys.

I am officially NOT doing chaos mortals nor skaven, but waiting for Lizardmen.

That evening I went out to eat with various family members on Tamies side: some steak and good company. That’s good times. Tamies two sisters, her mother, and one of the husbands were there.

In the private chambers of the heart and laptop… I wonder if I’ve done all I could with my life. I thought that by this age I would be more… finished, refined I suppose. I am ready to give it another almighty go against some of my old inner daemons. Another run up the hill. The effectual struggle spoken of my King Limhi.

I’ve been having strange pains in my chest. Nagging and intermittent.

I’ve been watching every episode of Frasier in order. I’m partway through season two.

We’ve been playing Magic down at the studio. It’s an enormous waste of time. But we’re having a good time.

About Politics

As most of you know, I’ve had quite an exuberant political awakening this last year. It’s been wonderful, but it’s time to digest it all. I think that my assertions are getting pretty scattershot. I need to refine and refocus.

It has been my intention to let you observe or come along for the ride.

Another development is that I’ve found my peace to some extent with this article.

Now the question is: what should I do? Or better yet, what can I do.

I am always happy to get feedback on my musings, and I almost invariably post them. I am surprised that anyone reads this blog. I think it’s really neat.

Bait and Switch

Trygon on the Block

Corsairs of Iyanden Return from Wandering

Day of High Jinx

See the rest of this army here.

This morning a client called me from overseas at 7:10am. It was a good thing because otherwise I would have overslept and the kids would have been late to their first post-holiday day at school.

It is bitter cold outside. The snow melts partially during the day, but the biting wind re-freezes it into solid ripples on cars, cement and houses. I spent part of the morning scraping ice off my car and shoveling the walk; a faithful chore of love I do for my wife.

After driving the kids to school I headed to the studio, arriving well before anyone else. I started preparing projects for various artists and also doing some general organizing. It is a new year so all the paperwork for the previous year needs to be sorted and filed. We finished nearly 1100 projects last year, the equivalent of at least 250 armies. No mean feat.

Read that again… Two HUNDRED fifty armies! That’s a conservative estimate.

It was a day filled with distractions. Like this:

Right now, I have the studio Iyanden army on the block. It’s a really good deal, like the Imperial Guard and Chaos Space Marines. Oh, you’ll all be sorry when I take them off the block! hehe.

I have yet another Iyanden army coming back home this week. You’ll probably see that in a Batrep.

I’m booking projects for February. Don’t hesitate to contact me for any matter.

It snowed about three times today. It make the world muffled and white. I really like it and haven’t tired of a white winter. Utah is a great place to live. I came home around 7pm to my adoring children and a meal of home-made turkey-noodle-soup and apple cobbler. Pretty sweet.

Super Saturday

Picture: a Wraithlord from the studio Iyanden army.

Today was a perfect day. I went out to sushi for lunch with wife, mother-in-law, and baby. Then off to the studio to “work” (ie hanging out with Renn and Mike who were playing Orcs v Vampire Counts 1850 pts). More Orcs are painted and they are looking good.

Solid Words from Ron Paul

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