Winter is here
New year is going fast. Last month I turned over one of my clients to a collegue in preparation for leaving TB for a new challenge. Took some getting used to, but I am happy with the decision. This time until the time I can turn over my last client is filled with a few mini-projects and some substituting here and there for collegues that are going on vacation, so that keeps me busy. Other then that I have no idea what the next step will be, and that is a feeling that I need to get used too. Not bad, mind you. Just new-ish. I did say no to anything that I know will cause undue stress. Stress due to a lot of hard work, due to 'balls to the walls' time, no problem. Stress because a client is not willing to either take the time or hire the staff to do it proper, I am done with that. I know these are hard times, but perhaps it is smarter not to change for the sake of change on a shoe-string budget with high demands. It is not like us technies can walk in, click our heels three times and say 'no place like 127.0.0.1...'.
EE weekend came and gone, and we have new evil (tm) plans. Besides the usual good fun we formally made the commitment for a new larp event cycle, and that coupled with Exit 2 has spawned a new locationhunt. A lot of hard work with a lot of maybe's and quite a few no's - honestly searching for locations is one of my least favorite things. Necessary evil, shall we keep it at that? Several eventful weeks have kept me from doing anything playerwise except the Aon Ball, which was awesome but also about endings. February will only see Unity, but after that there should be plenty of things to keep me busy. I'll definatively be sporting one, perhaps two, new characters - and I am significantly upgrading several others in terms of arms, armour and costume. I have a nice stack of reserves now so feel a lot more comfortable in spending a little more here and there. With our Unit 487/504 arts 'n crafts day done too most preps for that have also been done leaving me fairly light in the modding department, so I'll go paint some more Warhammer. Woe me ;-)
On the wargaming/tabletop front I've been able to strike the motherload with Battlefleet Gothic - a good Marktplaats bid netted me what I need to finish my fleets in one fell swoop. The end result of that plus what I had massive Imperial and Chaos fleet, plus a nice stack of Eldar and misc. vessels (including a few 'Orky shipz'). Plenty for Rogue Trader and casual Battlefleet. D&D is going well enough - we converted to Pathfinder (though I shall stubbornly keep referring to it as D&D) to great delight of all, and our first session was smooth enough. The weekend fell through on account of circumstances, but the next few sessions will see us trying to make enough gold to cover rezzing our Rogue and buying off her Negative Levels, probably plowing through some nearly old tower which has been acting uppity (spewing out Devils, prolly). Beyond that, exploring the third level of the Dungeon should also yield results - hopefully we can do some succesful diplomacy down there.
So, that is pretty much it. Not much, really, but I am not complaining too much. I am enjoying the winter weather and clearing out old larp supplies to permanent storage in order to make room for new swag and clear the back room for use as hobby-space again instead of just storage. I'd love to do a few new photoblogs though, so perhaps more of that in the future.
EE weekend came and gone, and we have new evil (tm) plans. Besides the usual good fun we formally made the commitment for a new larp event cycle, and that coupled with Exit 2 has spawned a new locationhunt. A lot of hard work with a lot of maybe's and quite a few no's - honestly searching for locations is one of my least favorite things. Necessary evil, shall we keep it at that? Several eventful weeks have kept me from doing anything playerwise except the Aon Ball, which was awesome but also about endings. February will only see Unity, but after that there should be plenty of things to keep me busy. I'll definatively be sporting one, perhaps two, new characters - and I am significantly upgrading several others in terms of arms, armour and costume. I have a nice stack of reserves now so feel a lot more comfortable in spending a little more here and there. With our Unit 487/504 arts 'n crafts day done too most preps for that have also been done leaving me fairly light in the modding department, so I'll go paint some more Warhammer. Woe me ;-)
On the wargaming/tabletop front I've been able to strike the motherload with Battlefleet Gothic - a good Marktplaats bid netted me what I need to finish my fleets in one fell swoop. The end result of that plus what I had massive Imperial and Chaos fleet, plus a nice stack of Eldar and misc. vessels (including a few 'Orky shipz'). Plenty for Rogue Trader and casual Battlefleet. D&D is going well enough - we converted to Pathfinder (though I shall stubbornly keep referring to it as D&D) to great delight of all, and our first session was smooth enough. The weekend fell through on account of circumstances, but the next few sessions will see us trying to make enough gold to cover rezzing our Rogue and buying off her Negative Levels, probably plowing through some nearly old tower which has been acting uppity (spewing out Devils, prolly). Beyond that, exploring the third level of the Dungeon should also yield results - hopefully we can do some succesful diplomacy down there.
So, that is pretty much it. Not much, really, but I am not complaining too much. I am enjoying the winter weather and clearing out old larp supplies to permanent storage in order to make room for new swag and clear the back room for use as hobby-space again instead of just storage. I'd love to do a few new photoblogs though, so perhaps more of that in the future.