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Wow. It’s Monday already. I’ve not really got much “hobby” done (but have made great strides in an app for playing games so it feels like hobby). I guess that’s about how I’d answer the first question:

• We’re nearly 50% through 2020 – how’s your hobby progress?

Slow but steady. Soooo many ideas, so much to do and so little time (even with lockdown and lots of time at home). But it feels like things are starting to come together now, which in turn means I get more time to spend on actual hobby. I paint eyes now. And have started doing bases. The bit in the middle, however, still takes far too long so I really need to get friendly with contrast paints.

• Are *they* watching us?

Of course they are. Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you 😉

• What kind of merchandise would OTT fit best? Clothing (Shirts, hoodies, caps, FEZ!!!), gaming accessories (dice, dice bag etc) or something completely different?

I’ve never really been one for “merch”. I always bought my wife a mug when we went to see one of the many different Cirque Du Soleil performances. But t-shirts and hats and things just never resonated with me. I’m more a mouse mats and mugs kind of guy. In fact (just checks store.ontabletop.com to make sure they don’t already) if OTT sold mouse mats and mugs, I’d probably buy one of each (hell, two if the mugs were labelled “painting water” and “not painting water”).

 

Pledge: computer has had hold of my by the throat these last two weeks, and it’ll still require a lot of effort (but hopefully it’ll be worth it to share with you guys in a few weeks) but I’m determined not to lose the momentum of the last couple of months. So I reckon I need to finish my cyberpunk gang once and for all, and get my not-LOTR gang finished (contrast paints will feature *a lot*).

 

Music: I’ve been reminiscing about the 90s a lot recently. Maybe it’s the whole “what-the-hell-are-you-going-with-your-time?” thing because of the lockdown. But I quite liked the devil-may-care bit-of-a-knobhead fearless idiot I was 25 years ago; 90s rock reminds me that I wasn’t always a paunchy middle-aged guy.