The Importance of Being Idle

World Of (Slight) Hurt

Oh I ache today.
We had a long weekend this week, mainly for the sake of a trip to the doctors to get my medicine reviewed, which took all of about ten minutes and then the rest of the day was ours to do with as we would! So naturally we went to Lincoln.
That's not why I ache though, why I ache is cos I was back at work today and my proper van still hasn't been fixed and I am stuck in that bloody stupid transit, and I find it massively uncomfortable. My lower back is incredibly painful, and I apparently have some tendinitis in my right wrist. This is less than I ideal given that my job essentially involves sitting down and carrying things. Ah well, I am sure I will recover in time.
As I think I mentioned last time I am suddenly very "into" Games Workshop stuff, and seem to have conversion and painting ideas running around in my head almost constantly, but they are all shockingly ephemeral. I have just started reading Dan Abnett's rather awesome Gaunt's Ghosts novels and they have got me massively excited about the Imperial Guard for the first time in my entire gaming career, and for a good week or so there I was reading Guard stuff, having thoughts and ideas, making plans and then today I picked up a White Dwarf from a couple of months ago with the new Space Wolf stuff in (some of which I already have cos me and the Sons of Russ go back a LONG way) and of course I am all excited about them again now. Oh and the new Skaven. It seems to me I can't settle on anything unless it has the word new in it's description and then I only love it for a month (or at least I can only concentrate on it for a month, and then there's another new thing along to replace it in my fickle affections)!
In a follow up to a previous blog I feel I have to comment on the terrifying number of dead badgers I saw by the roadside today. Three. Three may not seem like a particularly terrifying number in and of itself but as has been previously recorded I have never so much as seen a living badger, so the number of (apparently) freshly dead ones is both a source of some mystery (where do they all come from?) and also some not insignificant sadness.
Other things that happened in the blog hiatus (because hiatus sounds so much better than time-when-I-just-couldn't-be-bothered-with-the-whole-thing, although they are pretty much synonymous)? Most significantly, or at least most significantly that comes to mind, is that I turned forty. To celebrate Becky baked me a fabulous Ork cake and I bought Star Wars LEGO. Seems I'm all grown up now.

posted by BadMonkey @ 8:40 PM