What did you do today.

[Lovejoy]

Today I put in an order with Warlord for some early war British exhibitionary force models that will add nicely to my home guard. Considered buying a totally unecessary overpriced bag to put order dice in, but didnt as this would have been mental. I'd ideally like to have picked up some of the more eccentric, makeshift and downright dangerous weapons that the Home Guard would have used in the invasion that never came, but few if any manufacturers seem to make things such as the blacker bombard, northover projector, smith gun etc. Shame that the super cheap beaverette armoured car isnt made either. No doubt warlord will come through later. The stuff on offer from them I bagged will fit the bill though.

In other news, coming to the disappointing realisation that I cant get a Japanese driving licence again without a single piece of a4 paper (uk counterpart licence) that I didnt need last time, havent seen for years and now cant find. It may be impossible to get a replacement for said bit of paper without being resident in the UK. Daft, I call it. Since I cany imagine taking the expensive Japanese driving test in Japanese, I am Thinking I may even have to spend a fewmonths in the UK at some stage to get a new one.

[me_in_japan]

@Lovejoy - how come you need to apply again? (you mentioned "last time") Like yourself, I went from a UK license to a J-license fairly smoothly, and I don't recall any counterpart license. I don't recall ever seeing such a thing, actually. I'm on my 3rd J-license as of this summer, and my UK license has been expired for some years now. How come they're asking for UK information?

[Lovejoy]

@mij, well.. my Japanese licence expired and I didn't renew it. After my first stint in Japan I wasn't even sure if I was going to be returning at all, and I didn't need a licence in my current job, so I didn't think to keep it current.
Things change and I'll need to be ferrying a wife and child about, also I want to do another job next year and a licence in Japan is going to be pretty useful, if not essential I think.
The counterpart thing is strange, I am pretty sure I didn't need it when I lived in Fukui, but when we talked to the official types in Nagoya after 2 hours of waiting in the driver centre last Monday, thats what they asked for. I think 'Huh?' Was my response, more or less. And they also wanted a translation of the licence (sorted) which wasn't necessary before.
I will phone the DVLA soon and see if anything can be done. Bit of a bugger though

[me_in_japan]

Well, I suppose the DVLA should have records of your having held a license in the past, so they should hopefully be able to give you some kind of printout, most likely at extortionate cost, but still, something ought to be forthcoming. Here's hoping it all works out for you

[me_in_japan]

Well, today. What to say? On the plus side, my wave 2 sedition wars stuff arrived. Unlike a fairly vocal minority on the McVey forum, I'm actually rather pleased with it. The minis are all present and correct, and look to be nicely detailed. The "sorry we're running late" freebie Vokker Dargu is especially nice. The new rule book and cards are all there, and the terrain pack is chocka with useful looking doors and crates and alien pods and stuff.

As well as that, my order from Firestorm games arrived (note to Vossy: that means your wilder and stone chappy are here, as are your paints. Yon blighted gold is a very useful looking color. More on that later...)

So, so far, so pretty-ok-sounding day.

Ah. But I have not yet mentioned what I did at work today.

This week we have term tests. My colleague is away on a business trip to the states, and his test workload has been split between myself and the head of department. In addition to this extra 50% work, yesterday was the culmination of weeks of prep and planning when I took 56 3rd yr JHS girls to a local elementary school where they taught English to 160 小学校5年生. To be fair to our girls, they did a bang-up job of it. However, the amount of rehearsal involved yesterday, coupled with the actual time taken to do it, meant that I got bugger all in the way of test marking done. The tests all have to go back to the kids on Monday.

As luck would have it, the vagaries of a weird post-test schedule dictated I had no classes today, so this morning I went in to work, sat down at my desk and proceeded to grade 620 sides of B4 size test papers. 9 hours, many cups of coffee, 2 pee breaks and one tuna sandwich later I stood up and went home. Never before have I felt that sandpapering the backs of my eyelids would have been preferable to looking at one more poorly constructed sentence.

In light of this marathon feat of endurance I did what any sensible gamer would do under the circumstances and went online and spent money One Malifaux 2.0 book, arcanist cards and 3 pots o paint (including the aforementioned blighted gold) shall be winging their way to me shortly. Personally, I reckon I deserve it

[AndrewGPaul]

The new rule book and cards are all there

Although annoyingly, you only get enough replacement cards for the basic game; not enough to replace the additional models from the Biohazard pledge level. A minor thing, and it doesn't bother me because I wouldn't use them to track individual models, but still a bit cheap.

[me_in_japan]

True, but tbh I'm heartily fed up with people (not you, particularly) only finding bad things to say about this game. The minis are well sculpted, the rules are fun, the company has bent over backwards to fix any design flaws in this, their first ever game, the components are high quality, and we all got huge amounts of free stuff.

And yet the only thing people seem to post is comments like "they didn't give us extra free cards for our extra free minis that we got for free." or "wahwahwah, the girly scientist lady in the slinky red dress looks too small next to the heavily armoured marine. I demand you resculpt and recast the whole range again until they're all the same size!"

I appreciate that you're just making a small, pretty darn inoffensive remark, but having recently popped over to the McVey website I'm feeling rather defensive on behalf of this game. Nowt personal

Ps I suspect the card shortfall is because they have a print run that covers the basic biohazard box set. They could probably hire some people to go through the packs of biohazard cards and count out the right number of extra copies for the KS backers, but that would both cost more and be slow as all hell. The alternative would be a whole separate print run just for the KS backers. That'd be pricey, I expect.

[Primarch]

It's a well known fact that the internet hates everything. Everyone who is happy with their products is too busy having fun to post a lot. I've seen loads of comments from people complaining that they don't like the material the Bones models are made from. Sure, it isn't great, but at the same time the kickstarter provided hundreds of minis in unique poses for 50 cents each. Some people are just never happy.

[Miguelsan]

I'm not happy that you host a tournament every GW, Prim! Do better and host two at the same time
On topic I'll say that I´m close to finsihing my ADL.


M.

[Spevna]

I went ahead and finished one of my beakies

The plan was the do them in batches but I had a spare hour so decided to have a go.