:-) Yes, 5:30 sure seems to come earlier these days... Been getting up every day to hit the basement and get in a workout before showering and herding the kids off to school. Elliptical machine, weights, getting closer to where I want to be in order to actually start running again, though to be honest I am still concerned about old injuries there. Knee, shrapnel, back, etc... For the most part they never really did heal. In retrospect, I probably should have taken the medical out from the Army, but there was that whole "pride" thing... I just sucked it up and convinced myself that I was "better enough". Made it through Ranger school, so I was probably right, at least for a while... After a while, well... :-) Good thing I was never really a professional level athlete, it would have been more obvious that I was never going to recover fully... 'course, that also defined a lot of what I later became, getting "no one gets left behind" reinforced and drilled into your head over and over really did not change much for me, just really amplified a lot of how I was already. Also made me completely unsuitable for other work... That whole silly Pack loyalty thing just doesn't translate well to people who do not have it themselves. If it has to be explained, it is unlikely it will be understood...
:-) Yeah, darker moods these days... Not sure why, but just can't seem to shake it in a lasting way. Work is stressful, money is tight, other random issues keep popping up. And it just keeps building. Have our first "real" vacation in a decade or more coming up next month, hoping that does not turn out horribly. We'll see. Should be fine, but Florida in June is going to be a hot swamp... Maggie hates it when I refer to FLA as a giant swamp, but... Well, the last few times I went there, I was air dropped or drove through huge swaths of swamp... Having that whole "Green Hell" experience really does color your perceptions a bit.
Gaming is just not happening much if at all these days either. Just not really getting into the current 40K scene. Not enough of a group for much else at the moment either, so per usual 40K is about it for miniatures gaming at the moment... Maybe Warmachine/Hordes will come back, I don't know... We had a REALLY solid group for a long time that just faded and dropped off... Infinity and Confrontation are good possibilities as well but just not there yet. And at this point knowing how many miniatures I have in the basement of doom, I can't really justify buying a lot more... Sucks a bit, there are a LOT of things I'd like to pick up, but I have to keep that annoying "reality" in mind... And the fact that I have shelves and a desk overflowing with random minis from dead games of course...
Not much going on in the painting/conversion thing recently... Really just a holding pattern until I see what, if anything changes with the new edition. I have a bunch of Scouts I'm working on... I always use them with my Fleshtearers, but don't have much use for them in other Marine armies I play... Wolf Scouts are different :-), and those I am further along with... Those lads are in every Wolf army I play... 'course, it has been a long time since I played them... Perhaps telling...
We'll have to look over the Team rules from Adepticon, looked like they allowed some silliness there, but since those rules are widely used at other tournaments... One player taking a special character modifying the Force Org allowed all of their team to use the modified Force Org... So, Logan Grimmar becomes a MUCH better possibility, making Wolf Guard "Troops" for the partners... And if Dave and I end up going out to play again, I think we can coordinate the lists a LOT better... I think his list was good, mine was the weaker (Deathwing)... I also screwed up bringing fully painted and WYSIWYG stuff over the "mostly painted" but better stuff I could have brought... Silly me following the published rules :-) Ah well, lesson learned...
Hmm, I can understand a lot of what you are saying. Sometimes we just have to navigate some rough waters to get to calmer, sunnier shores.
ReplyDeleteI downloaded all of the Infinity stuff the other night. I haven't had much time to look it over, but what I have seen so far I like.
Finally sat down and started painting again. One figure at a time, but it IS a start. While at the painting table I've found myself looking over at the plastic bag that is holding all of the Warmachine (Retribution) stuff that I bought on sale and haven't done anything with...
Tom
Yes :-) I keep tripping over the suitcase full of Cygnar stuff I have... I have the 2nd ed rules somewhere and should be able to pick it up easily enough... Eventually :-)... Just not sure if there is a large enough group at the Gopher to be playing these days...
ReplyDeleteKeeping my Squat army around mostly as a reminder that GW does sometimes "disappear" things, including whole armies... One of the reasons I am just not all that into painting 40K stuff right now. Wait and see seems the order of the day. And while I have no "Finecast", have to admit I'm FAR less likely to purchase something in that, at least if it is simply a resin cast of the old metal miniature... :-) Personal thing, but cheaper material, no new sculpting, and more expensive? No thanks... Just seems "lazy" to me, but that's one I'll keep mostly to myself...