Week Ending 10/11

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It's been an OK week. I'm looking back over things trying to remember what I did. Seems I did a little writing, mostly outlining and planning for my next Wyrd Tales story. I also did some painting. 

J and D got me some fantastic new terrain for our tabletop wargames, including this amazing bridge set (minis included for scale)...

It's huge and would take up the whole table, but fortunately it's also modular. Leaving off one of the center sections makes it the prefect size for a center piece. Bridge battles anyone? :)

I also finished painting this cool "forest cave" piece that I got earlier. Another great center piece for the tabletop. I'm looking forward to having a chance to use it, but I've got to say painting all those vines was a pain. :)

So, yeah, that was pretty much my week. Resting and painting and then doing some more resting and little more painting. It was pretty good.

Onward

Week Ending 10/4

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This week was my birthday, so happy birthday to me! 

I had a mostly quiet day, laying around and watching movies that J and D got me as birthday presents. J made me a fantastic dinner - sesame chicken and rice with a chicken satay appetizer - inspired by fond memories of one of my favorite restaurants.  Yeah, it was a good day and a decent week. 

My Uncle Kirk, mom's brother, sent me a package of memories and treasures from my mom and grandparents. Just little things - pictures and books and some of my Grampa Ted's carvings and the like - that he'd collected over the years and passed on to me. Looking through it brought a smile to my face. I need to go through it all again with a more "awake" eye and ask him some questions. 

Honestly, that was the excitement of the week. It was good. 

Resting now, because it was also a lot. 

Onward 

Week Ending 9/27

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At least, I think it is. 

Not a huge amount to report, because five out of the last seven days are pretty much lost in a fog of feeling absolutely horrible. I've been exhausted, brain fog beyond all measure and generally miserable.

I finally started to feel a closer to normal yesterday and that involved waking up at 2AM, 4AM and 6AM and somehow not feeling exhausted and totally fogged... I mean more than my usual exhaustion and brain fog. I'm not able to take up marathon running or anything. I just started feeling closer to my normal. 

That's really all I have to report today. 

Cross your fingers for me for next week.

Onward 

Week Ending 9/20

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Well, last week I said I was looking forward to better days. I got my wish. I'm still not doing great by any stretch of the imagination, but this week has been OK. 

I spent a chunk of it working on more house rules for my "Age of Sigmar 3.5" game. I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but Age of Sigmar is a tabletop miniature wargame that D, J and I play together. We really enjoyed the 3rd edition of the game and were very unhappy with some things about the current, 4th edition (most notably that they deleted my main faction entirely). So, we decided to continue playing 3rd edition. 

Of course, me being me, I couldn't help tweaking the rules a little... or a lot. Basically, I've been incorporating the parts of 4th edition I like into 3rd edition and making a few other tweaks here and there to make our games more fun. Early this week, D decided to try out a new faction he had collected but not played extensively. Turns out, they needed some work. They were the last faction released in 3rd edition and hadn't had time to get their rough edges smoothed off before the new edition came out. So, we did some smoothing of our own. Like I just said, most incorporating 4th ed rules that are obvious improvements. 

This is fun for me. What can I say? I'm a weird guy. 

In other hobby news, I finished posting the chapters for my SimLit story In Moonlight. I'm very pleased with how it came out. I've been struggling a bit with the sequel story, In Starlight, but this morning The Click happened. The Click is that moment when things start falling into place. It usually comes by looking at the various "puzzle pieces" of my ideas in different ways until suddenly two of them Click together. Once that happens, the other pieces start to fall into place. Sometimes a story or idea has multiple Click moments but this was definitely one. I'm thrilled.

Anyway, Click aside, today is a day for resting. So I'm going to and we'll see what next week brings. 

Onward

Week Ending 9/13

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This has been a pretty crappy week, if I'm honest. I've been completely worn out all week. I am very frustrated about that, because I have things I want to do but my body and mind just aren't up to actually doing any of them

The best I can say is that I am now on season 5 of Stargate SG1. While there are still some episodes that have aged like warm milk, on the whole, the show has improved in both storyline, acting and production values from a very shaky start. 

That's about it for me. Like I said, crappy week... but where there are bad days, there will eventually be good days again.

Onward 

Week Ending 9/6

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I vacuumed my room! This is huge. I know, to normal people it's like "big deal, you should do that" but no... this is huge. I spent the rest of the day in bed because of it, but I still feel an enormous sense of pride and accomplishment for doing this. The floor was getting pretty grungy. 

You see, J's cat is afraid of the cleaning lady. J's cat is a afraid of everything actually, but she is especially afraid of the cleaning lady. So whenever the cleaning lady comes, J's cat literally hides in my room, putting me between her and the door. I don't have the heart to let the cleaning lady into my room and further traumatize the cat. So, the floor got pretty grungy. 

One day, when the cat was elsewhere, I went for it and I vacuumed. Voila, clean floor and untraumatized cat. 

So, yeah, that's basically what I did this week. :)

Onward

Week Ending 8/30

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Well what can I say about this week. Not much. It's been kind of up and down. 

My energy levels have been weird. I think I'm doing OK, and then I crash hard. It's been frustrating. 

I got some more paint on minis. I really need to remember to take some pictures so I can post them, but I'm too tired to do that for this week. 

I've been watching more Stargate SG1. It's continues to be not horrible, but I'm getting a feeling that Stargate Atlantis came by it's war crimes honestly. The good guys aren't exactly ethical exemplars. They also seem to be kind of idiots. Still, watching it passes the time. Kinda.

I am starting to really appreciate how hard "just relax in bed and watch something" actually can be. There comes a certain point where it just don't do it. 

Too tired to actually do anything. Too awake to be satisfied doing nothing. 

Something I've got to work on.

Onward