Staying Close to Home

While the #CharacterCreationChallenge in January and the impromptu #RPGCampaignTour filled up my blog with daily goodness, it hid and ugly truth:  I would only have 33 posts over those 59 days without them, a veritable desert compared to my normal production. 

I'm writing this because, I have no material.   Sure, I have my draft posts overwhelming me with ideas, and a painting bench getting gleefully cluttered, but it's a winter of taking care of my mom, trying to see the kids, and a new job.  

Finally.  It's nothing glamourous, but I'm back in insurance operations. And while I may hate it everyday, it's enough money covers bills, it's cheap on gas, and apparently I'm beloved by my team.  A nice reminder that despite problems in previous jobs, I do know what I'm doing. 

Gamma World is still going on Monday nights.  We're almost to the climax of the big epic quest that started thirty weeks ago, and I need to relax with a beverage and perhaps ChatGPT to figure out the options and ultimate fates of a few characters after this week's session.   

Contrary to the title, I am heading out to Upstate New York to see Maja in a volleyball tournament, then the following week in the school play.  Nothing like some dedicated Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff time, plus a Spotify DJ list that adding a lot of Bad Bunny and 90's chick rock.  Hopefully, I will add some Upstate game store reviews on my Sunday afternoon drives home. 

You start listening to the Spanish station for a couple weeks and the algorithm just knows...

I'm definitely locked in with my events for Mepacon 50 in April.   Part of the appeal of my convention games have been their quirkiness, but it is fun to see old school folks and newer folks sign up for my stuff. 

Historicon registration started on Monday, but the Stout Gnomes are at a bit of a standstill, with some logistics issues (beyond the normal hotel chaos).  The goal is to get Maja's Mepacon registration paid for,  then start setting up the Thursday-Saturday games.  

And beyond scrouging up the funds for Macrocosm's latest Kickstarter, there isn't much else I'm actively looking for.    I am still trying to rid of my uncle's wooden model ships kits, as well as the last of my Alpha Magic cards...

Games:  The consensus from the girls is a return to Savage Showdown for our Mousling game.  We're finished with part one of Temple of the Serpent and I can break out my desert terrain once again.  Once more terrain and figures are finished (see below), I'm certainly returning to the Fistful of Lead games for Death Planet Iota. 

Painting:  I now have three buildings for Death Planet Iota sitting on the bench, as well as two new vehicles for the Gnomish Space Marines that just scream "kitbash!" After that is an old Star Wars boxed set of minis, then heaven knows what.  

Project 350:  #RPGCampaignTour and some good episodes of Ken and Robin added some ideas to the backdrop of the blog, thus a stagnant/negative  453 (283/170)  from  451 (284/167) in mid-February.