chaos and noise

The solstice has passed, and the days are slowly getting longer. A fitting turning point perhaps - the last few weeks have slowly dragged me under them, but this is changing.

I didn't make it to work yesterday. I had plenty of overtime up my sleeve, I'd stayed late on Monday, and all my urgent tasks were finished. Instead, I stayed at home and focussed on the things that have been looming over me lately. I finished Insurgent #2, and taught myself about hyperlinking the contents page (page anchors aren't working for me... I had to use my headings as text anchors instead). If you're into miniatures games (40k in particular, but most of the articles this issue are about building terrain), please take a look... you'll need to register with http://www.wargamerau.com to download files, but that doesn't take much time to do. Issue #2 is a 1.8MB download, with 16 colour pages.

My entry for the Reaper competition is coming along nicely - I'm painting the Guardian Dragon figure (mine is purple, though...), with a display base containing some hatchlings hiding amongst the rocks. I'll put up pictures in the next week or so, as the competition closes on July 1st. I don' t know that I'll finish my entries for the other categories in time, though. All the entries will be in Mind Games by next Friday night - drop in and have a look, if you're interested.

Next Wednesday I'll be playtesting Silent Streets to run it at RetroCon on July 2-3. I'm enjoying writing it at the moment, as I finally found my angle into the final (fifth) character. The characters are mostly written up, and several background groups are already working their own plots. It looks like I'll be GMing all seven sessions across the weekend, so I'll get to see lots of different endings to the story. That's the reason I run these things :-)

I'm still massively overcommitted with work, but no longer hopelessly so - yesterday made a world of difference, and I'm slowly climbing on top of things. I have plans to try some more layout tricks with the Silent Streets character sheets (more practice!), and then I can get back to painting things for my first Ebay attempt. I'm really not sure how the auction will go, but I want to see what the waters are like... I'll be selling some models that I bought for about 30% of retail value, so at worst I'm unlikely to lose anything.