What did you do today.

[me_in_japan]

figured I should check in and say hello

Meh, to quote Granny Weatherwax, I aten't dead. I've just been having an uncommonly busy/stressful time at work, and have had bugger all energy to do anything when I get home. Which is a bit of a problem, as I need to plan 6 hours worth of summer classes for next week (class planning gets done at home - no time at work for anything as mundane as prepping for classes ) and also I have a 3000 word report to write for my university course before I go to scotland on the 27th.

Anyway, the past couple of days have delivered a tiny chink of light at the end of the tunnel, so I shall soldier bravely on and hope that it aint a train coming the other way

And also, try to paint a bit, then post pics

ps. A Really Wierd Thing happened to me the other day. I went into my hobby room (where I hadn't been for a while) to grab a moment's respite from life, sit down and eat my lunch in peace. Whilst chowing down on a toasted scrambled egg sandwich, I heard an ominous buzzing from my extractor fan vent. "bugger" thinks I, "that'll be wasps in the extractor unit". Right enough, when I pried the interior cover off the wall, there was a wee skinny-waisted black wasp buzzing around looking perturbed at being exposed to all this light suddenly. Feeling somewhat unmerciful, I turned the fan on and watched the little chap struggle manfully before being whooshed out into the wide wide world. I then took a closer look in the fan for the inevitable nest. Right enough, there was a tennis ball sized convolution of papery tubey wotsits stuck on the side of the fan. I went and got some waribashi and proceeded to knock it off the fan and onto my desk, where it shattered.

Here's where it gets wierd.

Contained within the nest was nothing but dozens and dozens of small (about 1cm), neon-green spider corpses, now spread all over my desk.

It was one of those "wtf?" moments. I swear, if that had been in a dream a psychiatrist would be all over it, but since it actually happened in really real life, I'm just gonna chalk it up to one of those wierd things that life occasionally throws at you. *shrug*

[The Other Dave]

<Hank Hill> Oh, God! </Hank Hill>

Dozens of spider corpses is not something I would want on my painting desk - or anywhere, for that matter. I suppose baby wasps have to eat something, but still. *shudder*

Also: This evening I started prepping up a few units for priming. I guess with DZC under my belt I'll basically alternate between Napoleonics and armies of Middle-earth, with some 6mm terrain work in the mix to prep for September. Since my last batch included some redcoats, hardy Men of Lake-Town it is!

[Lovejoy]

I haven't posted recently either, no baby spiders involved thankfully - but work life has been pretty frantic in preparation for my leaving day.

Finally today, I finished my last day at work at a certain big eikaiwa, after two and a half years of pretty solid graft. Initially I hated it to be honest, but after irritations in the first year (massively alleviated by the influx of genuinely nice management staff and great new co-workers) it had ended up be genuinely enjoyable, and beneficial for me as a teacher. I can honestly say that the co-workers were the best I ever had.
Actually, It was this job that got me the visa to enable me to return to Japan, to finally marry my wife, and consequently young Louis might not be here if it weren't for them hiring me, so, you know, I have to be thankful for that. I'm sorry to leave the staff and students behind, but I had to make some changes to my schedule now the boy is here.
So.. I am now a man of leisure, until I find the next job. If possible I won't be starting something new until September, so that I can have a well deserved break over summer. We're already off to England for a couple of weeks as of the 22nd to show off the unseen grandchild, and visit London.
I have a few work ideas - but if you know of anything, please let me know!

Sorry everyone, for a not terribly hobby relevant post. But it's a fairly big event for me, so there you go.

[me_in_japan]

@lovejoy - enjoy the break, mate. Best of luck finding something new, but until you do, be cool and enjoy life for what it is.

This evening, I got this far on yon Trueborn:


Just the head and bones to do now

[Spevna]

@MiJ - That sounds horrendous ( work and spiders )!

@Lovejoy - Enjoy the long holiday mate

My last hobby related shenanigans were with Prim at my place. 2000 pts of Beakies VS Orks. Great fun was had, and it,was educational taking the new ork codex for a spin.

I think that large squads of Killa Kanz are pretty nifty.

I think Kommandos die easily ( especially when poorly placed by me!)

In the end it came down to 7 kill points to 9 in favour of the Emperor's finest.

I took some pretty good photos but realized that they were actually pretty blurry and shit after I checked them the next day. Seems that beer goggles not only make mingers look like hotties,they also make dodgy photos look liken masterpieces!

[AndrewGPaul]

I can't help thinking a man with a Dark Eldar army could find a modelling use for dozens of dead spiders.

[jehan-reznor]

MIJ, alien spider invasion? be glad it weren't the big wasp ones.

GW made me do it! started with infinity! here is my haul.

http://31.media.tumblr.com/e10b6e6122f4 ... 1_1280.jpg

And started to work on a copula i got fro a friend in the Netherlands when i was there, magnetized the barrels and one of the side pods before i ran out of magnets.

http://38.media.tumblr.com/e04417755fae ... 2_1280.jpg

http://38.media.tumblr.com/7c4a730009cb ... 3_1280.jpg

[Primarch]

... I heard an ominous buzzing from my extractor fan vent. "bugger" thinks I, "that'll be wasps in the extractor unit". ...

I love how that was the first thing that popped into your head. Is buzzing in your extractor fan a common enough occurrence that you can identify the root cause by the pitch and timbre of the buzz?

On the plus side, the only thing that would have been worse than a tide of bright green alien spider corpses flowing across your painting table is a tide of bright green alien spiders scuttling across your desk.

My last hobby related shenanigans were with Prim at my place. 2000 pts of Beakies VS Orks. Great fun was had, and it,was educational taking the new ork codex for a spin.

In the end it came down to 7 kill points to 9 in favour of the Emperor's finest.

In fairness to the Orks, it should be pointed out that Spevna was ahead of me on kill points for most of the game. It was only when a tooled up squad of vanguard veterans made it into combat with his Warboss and his last remaining Nob bodyguard that I managed to jump ahead. The Warboss still splatted a marine, but with 20+ attacks and the boss only having heavy armour, it was kind of a one sided affair.

[Auxryn]

I've pretty much finished painting my warbikes/nob bikers.
I keep finding more details I want to fix, but they're pretty much done.

Now I just need to work on my remaining Tau.

[The Other Dave]

Got a couple dozen 10mm horsemen (although, different manufacturers being what they are, they're really closer to 12mm, making them look fargin' huge compared to the bulk of my Bo5A stuff - but oh well) cleaned up and based and generally prepped for priming. Also played a whole bunch of XCOM, but that's neither here nor there.