This week’s pledge is to finish my next skin tones mini. It’s actually mostly done, I just want to try and create a marble effect on the base, then it’s complete.

• You’ve been off work for more than a week. Do you prepare yourself mentally for getting back to work? – I do usually find myself doing a bit of prep. Not so much mental prep, but I’d usually feel better if I spend an hour reviewing emails so I know what I might be walking into on day one.

Preparing for work ?

panicking because at the end of a two week holiday I’m likely to be awake at night and sleeping during the day …

I hope to do better this time by setting the alarm at the same time as usual.
Not sure if I’m in the mood for waking up at 6:00 …

Reminds me that I still need to plan my holiday (or rather : my days when I’m not working).

I really should have planned the work on my hobby room better.
I’m now dissassembling my table, because trying to move the thing in order to lay the floor tiles was proving to be a bit of a pain in the posterior.

I really wonder how people manage to make any interior look consistent, because all I ever seem to manage is just shoving a few things in a room and calling it done. Maybe my taste is a bit too odd and I’m not decisive enough to pick and choose stuff I need ?
It was more or less the same when I got my first appartment. It kind of worked out in the end as I stumbled upon a shop that sold a range of furniture that I liked. Of course I also underestimated how much storage space one really needs. That was before the blue&yellow furniture store was a thing and you had to make do with regular furniture shops that calculated delivery times in months instead of hours.

Anyways …
I reallly really should finish this room ‘soon’ so I can do some proper hobby.

Pledge: knock out more minis and put together a list for Kings of War (I’m not a fan of Napoleonic squares though).

Question of the Week: There’s an absolute need to get back into the mindset of going to work. Having irregular work is almost as bad as if I were, as Gerry put it in the XLBS, retired. I’m nowhere near those days but the search for work in construction is pretty rough in a city that was generally built up 70 years ago. Even with the regular work its the beginning of the week exertion that can be rough.

A bit of a change for music into triphop. A full on mellow tone to start the week.

I despise country, and Corb Lund @limburger – I can’t lie!

This was today’s work, replacing my broken air filter with a new one. So, you spend $450 on a new kit. And, they can’t include a $2 gasket. WTAF. Whatever. Also, bad instructions. But I solved it. New S&S teardrop filter over my stage 2 1200c Sporty. Clean, slick, and sounds better.

Do you prepare yourself mentally for getting back to work?

No need. Mentally, I’m like a coiled spring, always primed and ready for action, so no need to prepare 😉
My wife agrees with the analogy. Except she says it’s more I’m likely to go off at any time crashing into things and making a mess. I saw myself as a scientific instrument, primed and filled with kinetic energy. She, it would seem, more like one of those plastic monsters you used to lick the bottom of and stick to shiny surfaces.

Pledge – work a bit more on my Blood Bowl orc team. I’m not going to commit to anything silly like trying to complete them. But getting them a bit closer to done would be nice.

@zoidpinhead – nice music choice. Though I’ll be honest, just from the title alone, and until I played it, I did think it might have been this one:

I’m going to see the new Naked Gun movie tonight. I hope it’s not dreadful.
I remember loving the Police Squad tv series when it was on, but on re-watching it recently, I can also understand why today’s kids don’t find it funny either. That said, the recent trailer with “cover me” was enough to make me buy tickets!

@sundancer – I’m dying to see Spinal Tap 2!

@blinky465 Ah, Black Lace – the antidote to nostalgia 😀

I am plugging away with the last units of the Draugr.  Whilst I was waiting for some wet blending to dry I got started on the next small army:

Warlord Epic Celts for those who don’t recognise them.  I’ve got a division to do with two infantry blocks, cavalry, chariots and skirmishers as well as command bases.  I don’t have any others and I’ll probably sell them when I’m done as I don’t have anything else in this scale.  I just fancied having a go at something different.

Well done to @horati0nosebl0wer for the wonderful entry in July’s painting comp.  Is this the format now – winner picks the next category?  Seems fair enough and it spreads the load a bit too.