Left to my own devices...

[morsla]

aeliel has headed off for a fun-filled week of supervising a Year 7 camp down at Phillip Island. I think that the general plan is to run the kids ragged for four days, so they don't have the energy to cause any trouble overnight. As theories go, it seems pretty sound. Just so long as the kids don't develop boundless reserves of sugar-fuelled hyperactivity - I mean, what are the chances of that happening?

I've been slowly readjusting after what seems like a very long weekend... most of which seems to have been spent eating dumplings or yum cha, playing some games, and planning others. Nemesis went well on Friday - surprisingly well, after how quiet it was last time. I never made it out to Golgotha, as everyone else had succumbed to weekend-apathy or fled town to make the most of the holiday.

Hopefully I'll manage to get through a decent amount of work this week. I have a lot of painting to get stuck into, after losing a few days while my fingertip healed up. I'm still amazed at just how clumsy I become when I have to avoid using a finger - I must be using all my fingers to a greater degree than I thought. No yakuza membership (or at least no failures...) for me, I guess.

It's also time to start on the next phase of Ian's commision work, for Liber Animus. While searching for enough daemon models to fill his list, I bought all the Flamers in four stores, and had to wait a fortnight for a distributor to get enough stock to finish the order. I'll probably spend most of tomorrow drilling and pinning them together. Then I just have to paint the bastards :)

In other news, I'm enjoying the return to Tai Chi. My sword form is rusty. Hell, my sword is rusty... there's a patch of rust on the blade from last time I trained with it. Spending most of the last few months at a computer or painting desk has played merry hell with my stance, but I'm slowly getting back into it again.