Archive for August, 2008

Me Me Me

Friday, August 29th, 2008

That’s what this is all about.  I hope you all realize that.  This is all for me.  I don’t do it for you, or for world peace, or for J. Edgar Hoover.  I do it for me.  What does that mean?  Absolutely nothing.  I don’t even know why I brought this up.  It isn’t even true.  I do it all for a variety of reasons, none of which are of any importance.  Forget it, let’s just pretend this never happened.

So, things have been a little slow around here lately.  That is because things away from here haven’t been that slow.  I have way too much on my plate, though to be completely honest most of it isn’t really all that important.  Many of the things are just things that I want to do, not necessarily things that I need to do.  I do need to find a new job.  That much is true.  I may try to get back in at the game store, maybe even the bakery.  I just need something part time, days during the week.  We will see what happens, it doesn’t have to be now, but sometime soon.  I would love to start putting a little money away for something nice, maybe even pay off some of that pesky debt that seems to have popped up.

I have a a lot of little projects that I want to work on too.  I have a giant pile of minis that need to be done, I have Dwarves, Golbins, Lord of the Rings, Bloodbowl, and some 40K stuff, all of it needs to be assembled and painted.  No rush on this, I am just sick of seeing it all just sitting there.  Along with all the Hirst arts stuff I want to get done, why do i have such time consuming hobbies.

Then there is my writing.  I haven’t done much lately.  I have plenty of ideas, I just haven’t done much with them.  I do want to get some more Mistrunner stuff done before OshCon.  I want to at least make it look like the game is progressing in the right direction.  I need to speak to my collaborators on this front.  I would like some new art, maybe even a new map or two.

On a positive note, the backyard is really coming along nicely.  It is finally getting to where I want it to be.  I still have a few things I want to fix, but most of them are going to wait until next spring.  It will be nice once the weather cools down a bit so I can do some backyard movies.  You’re all invited.

GlennCon

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Well, it is over.  I would say it was a success.  Started off slow, but it allowed time to play some one on one with Rob in Carcassonne Castle.  Once the day started moving on Friday though, it didn’t slow down much.  We ended up playing games until 5am.  I am gonna do another post with a list of all the games that got played over the weekend.  I would like to thank everyone that showed up.  So, thank you Rob, Jeff W, Jeff K, Jeff S, Steve, Joanne, Gretchen, Randy, Endo, Andrew, David, Joyce, Kristen, Lynette, Karl, Colleen, Chris, Jammie, Eric, Lori, Monty, Thalia, Connal, Lilly, Jake, and anyone else that I am forgetting, which I apologize for.  Now I just have to truck everything back to my house.

Rogue Trader…..Movie 82

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Ambitious, wide-boy Nick Leeson is determined to rise in the world and be more than a simple bank clerk. When his employers, Barings Bank, offer him the opportunity to go to Jakarta to sort out a problem that nobody else wants, he seizes the opportunity with both hands. In Jakarta he meets and marries Lisa and together they go to Singapore when the bank offers him the job of setting up their future options trading operation. To save money the bank allows Nick to operate both the floor trading and the back office facilities and force him to employ cheap, unskilled staff. His first year of trading is a big success and he makes large profits for the bank even though he has illegally broken trading rules and secretly covered up losses. Given more freedom, even more money and continuing unchecked, Nick starts to make losses and again attempts to trade out of them but this time he comes unstuck as his illegal trading generates even bigger losses. After the death of his unborn child Nick completely loses control and gambles without restraint with other people’s money leading inevitably to a complete financial meltdown and the bankruptcy of the bank.  Thanks IMDB.

Okay, so maybe it isn’t the most riveting of films, but I still found it interesting, another one of those, “Hey, let’s look up so more information about all this” films.  Plus, I do like Ewan McGregor a lot, and as such I have been getting many of his older movies from Netflix (though a certain number of never to be mentioned movies by a childhood murdering wretch are not included).  It was a solid movie, with solid performances by most of the cast.  The Asian actors though, at times, seemed like cutouts from a bad kung fu movie, they way they talked seemed like it was poorly dubbed voiceovers.  Still, I enjoyed it, 3 1/2 axes.