A bit of a shakeup

My wife has had a bit of a shakeup at work. She will be ‘retiring’ at the end of October as they are closing her department. She was thinking about retiring in a few years but that would have been on her timeline. Any changes to her plans always throws her a bit off, but she is coming to terms with it. We should end up being okay.

This will have two direct gaming-related impacts on me. First, she will be home and prone to cleaning through my stuff. I keep putting off doing a good sift and will need to make that a higher priority. Secondly, the storage locker becomes even more of a hot button than it currently is. We are hanging on to a lot of stuff. Some of it was stored in haste and we really need time to go through it properly again and repackage it and decide if really does need to be kept. I had done a bit of a sift a while ago, and we repackaged the 11 bins of models model kits into 6 boxes.

I have been meaning to go through a bunch of the games and maybe passing them along. Especially with the games that I had picked up when it seemed like we were getting an expansion on the house. A lot of those I am not particularly attached to and could let go. It’s also time to take another look at the books and comics. This was all stuff that we were going to do anyways.

This just puts more of an impetus on this.

Deathwatch: Overkill - acquired

I was finally able to save enough to get a copy of Deathwatch: Overkill. It took a lot longer than I had hoped due to the spike in gas prices cutting into my discretionary funds. In the meantime, Gangs of Commorragh has been discontinued and has disappeared from the shelves and online.

I was in the area, so I had popped in to the local Games Workshop. I would have picked up the Gangs set now and pushed back the Deathwatch but they no longer had the Gangs set. The Deathwatch: Overkill had been boxed up to send back to the main office but he dug it out for me. It had a bit of shelf wear on the corners but at least it was here.

Gangs of Commorragh was going to be the next on my list but, if it’s out of print, I may try to save up for the Horus Heresy: Burning of Prospero or get some of the other Blood Bowl teams. Or I might try to get some more figures from Knight Models for the DC Universe Miniature game.

Books read January - April 2018

Jan
Rogue Stars by Andrea Sfilogoi
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter
Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette
Dark History of Hollywood by Kieron Connolly
Gaslands: Post-Apocalyptic Vehicular Combat by Mike Hutchinson

Feb
Warzone – A Fast and Furious Miniatures Battle Game by Bill King
Diablo III: Book of Cain by Flint Dille
Dracula’s America: Shadows of the West by Jonathan Haythornthwaite
The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game by Alessio Cavatore & Matthew Ward
Old Sword Play: Techniques of the Great Masters by Alfred Hutton

Mar
Future City edited by Roger Elwood
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
The Queen’s Doll House by Lucinda Lambton
Molly’s Game by Molly Bloom
American Pickers – Guide to Picking by Libby Cullaway, with Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz, and Danielle Colby

Apr
The Geek Dad’s Guide to Weekend Fun by Ken Denmead
The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History by Stephen Jones
Small-Scale Modelling by Caroline Osborn
Handmade Book: Binding, Folding and Decorating by Heather Weston
Haynes Star Wars Millenium Falcon: Modified YT-1300 Corellian Fighter Owner’s Workshop Manual by Ryder Windham, Chris Reiff, and Chris Trevas
The Hero’s Closet: Sewing for Cosplay and Costuming by Gillian Conahan