It sucked. I lost my friend Rob, and it sucked. It still sucks. I miss him.
While that was the thing that overshadowed everything else, it wasn’t all that happened because life goes on… The start of September means the start of school, and the kid is now officially in 1st grade! Of course there’s been like 3 fundraisers already, and multiple school events to attend… and it’s only the first month. The timing of the start of school and labor day means that I missed Reapercon again this year. I will make it back, but I’m not sure when. I haven’t bothered to pick up any of the minis from the con yet… not sure when I will.
This month was the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek, and… well I had some feelings about that. And also the 17th blogiversary of Tower of the Archmage. It still blows my mind that I’ve kept this going for as long as I have.
I also got a nasty case of food poisoning, got the flu and COVID vaccines, gave a double unit of blood, had a doctor's appointment a bit after where they spilled a bunch of blood they were collecting to test, and to top it off one of my aunts died…
I’m so very glad that September is over. While I don’t dare suggest that October couldn’t be worse, I’m hoping for better.
Miniatures
Decently productive month. With the kid back at school, including his weekend language school meant I got more hobby time. Some of that was spent working on my yard decorations for Halloween, and the rest was spent painting and building. I got really focused on the food truck, and banged out the basic structure over 2 evenings, and then got right to painting. It’s amazing how quickly something can come together when you’re avoiding something else…like crushing grief.
Of course with the focus on the food truck, I wasn’t nearly as productive on the rest of the minis I wanted to work on this month. Knowing the end of the month was coming, I put the truck aside and banged out everything I planned on.
Gaming
Ha! Hahahaha…. No.
Media
Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 4
Resident Alien season 4
Letterkenny
Game Changer
Make Some Noise
My Octopus Teacher
Books
Star Trek Lower Decks graphic novels 1 & 2
Some West End Games Star Wars books
Loot
Minis! A friend was moving cross country and they sent me a box of minis that were going to be tossed.
I've got more on the way too... A little retail therapy to attempt to sooth the soul.
Goals for October
Build new Tombstones
Play the next Hope Eternal scenario
