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This year's textbooks have been sent in to the printers. Nothing's ever really done until the hardcopies arrive, but I'm glad to see them finished.
I now know more about politics (Australian and North American) and economics (Australian) than I did before. That's one of my favourite parts of this job... that, and getting paid to obsess over minutiae like font leading, stray apostrophes and embedded graphics. I know the printers can probably work around all but the most catastrophic of layout mistakes, but it's nice knowing that all the loose ends have been dealt with. Vastly cheaper to fix things in the layout stage, too.
For the rest of this week, I have two painting jobs to finish: one Dwarf Bloodbowl team (for a CanCon player), and some Menoth figures. Next week contains some zombie horsemen (Cryxian Soulhunters) and a box full of Space Marine vehicles - hopefully, a reasonable number of which will be finished before Christmas. Finishing work = getting paid, which is always a good incentive at this time of year.
I've been asked to magnetise all the optional parts for the plastic vehicles, which means I now have 300-odd rare earth magnets on my desk. They're kind of fun to work with, although frustratingly small - most of them are 1mm thick, and they whizz across the desk whenever one slips through my fingers.
Right now, it's time I headed up to bed. The last of the year's really major jobs is now finished, and sleep is sounding good right now.
I now know more about politics (Australian and North American) and economics (Australian) than I did before. That's one of my favourite parts of this job... that, and getting paid to obsess over minutiae like font leading, stray apostrophes and embedded graphics. I know the printers can probably work around all but the most catastrophic of layout mistakes, but it's nice knowing that all the loose ends have been dealt with. Vastly cheaper to fix things in the layout stage, too.
For the rest of this week, I have two painting jobs to finish: one Dwarf Bloodbowl team (for a CanCon player), and some Menoth figures. Next week contains some zombie horsemen (Cryxian Soulhunters) and a box full of Space Marine vehicles - hopefully, a reasonable number of which will be finished before Christmas. Finishing work = getting paid, which is always a good incentive at this time of year.
I've been asked to magnetise all the optional parts for the plastic vehicles, which means I now have 300-odd rare earth magnets on my desk. They're kind of fun to work with, although frustratingly small - most of them are 1mm thick, and they whizz across the desk whenever one slips through my fingers.
Right now, it's time I headed up to bed. The last of the year's really major jobs is now finished, and sleep is sounding good right now.