I've been meaning to write daily, Monday through Friday, but I had to skip yesterday. Since I also write for my day job, The extra hour I've been spending on my blog has put extra stress on my hands and wrists. And yesterday I was in pain from the strain. So instead of risking further injury, I took the night off. Today I'm working on it to make up for that deficiency.
It's felt good to be writing for myself again. After spending the last 20 years writing as a corporate mercenary, it's a liberating feeling to be writing without any specific purpose other than the joy of it. Which, honestly, is how things should be. And while there are specific things I want to accomplish with this blog, I am in no rush to manifest them. Instead, I plan to take things slowly and see how they develop organically. All too often it seems that people rush into their creative pursuits and burn themselves out. That has certainly happened to me over the years.
Besides writing, I've also kept up with my workouts through the week. I was on a good cadence before, but we had a car wreck a couple of years ago and that put me off. I had physical therapy, and then life just started happening again and I never made the time. Ultimately, I'd like to shed the extra weight that crept back up and stay strong. One thing that I want to avoid is what happened to Dad. By the end of his life, he had lost a lot of weight and was very thin and frail. It was a huge juxtaposition from how I knew him growing up -- a giant strapping man, full of strength. I don't want my kids to have that same experience. I hope that their memories of me aren't about how I looked at the end of my life, but of what we did together and how they felt doing so.
Tomorrow, I have my first game of Warhammer 40,000 second edition for 2026. It will be my third game of this edition since that version was the current edition! Dave and I played two games last year before Christmas, and we will continue our escalation with a 1250 points game. I've been debating on whether I should take light vehicles and a small mob or if I should put all of those points into a looted tank. I'm leaning toward the former for two reasons. First, it's more models on the board with which I can overwhelm the lower number of space marines. Second, it's a way to help close the gap as my Orks close the gap across no man's land to get into melee. In the two previous games, I struggled to get the ladz into a proper scrap and I owe them this much!
On my painting table currently, I have a bunch of Steel Hussars space marines that I'm working on finishing up. They found themselves there last year, and I want to clear up some of these half-finished projects before I try to tackle anything new. I really love these old miniatures, and I want to get this army up to a size that is both playable but also has options for tactical flexibility.
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