Thursday morning I noticed one of my older posts (this one) was receiving comments… I figured someone, somewhere posted it on their own blog and people were following the link over here. Then my mailbox blew up as people started “liking” the same post, subscribing to the blog, and commenting… I had no idea what was going on until a friend on Twitter out to me that the post had been selected to be featured on WordPress’ frontpage!? Yup, my writing was featured on “Daily Press”!
What does that mean exactly? For one it means a lot of comments! That post now has over 120. It also means a lot of pages views. Before today my the most hits I’d had on my page was 180. In the last three days DiMortuiSunt has had 5,176 hits?!?
I'm still in shock!
This is just a quick post to thank everyone. Those of you who have been reading here for a while, those of you who showed up in the last few days, and WordPress for noticing me. I promise I won’t try to disappoint any of you!
Ultramarines and Warhammer 40,000 are owned by Games Workshop
I’ve talked before about my love of tabletop war games. If not, then know that I love them. When I was a wee lad my brother and I got Hero Quest for Christmas one year, and I’d spend hours flipping through the GW catalog that came inside that box. So many amazing looking miniature models, all so beautifully painted. I fell in love with the company then and there. Until I was older though and had a job that provided some discretionary income tabletop wargaming remained a dream. In 2001 or ‘o2 a hobby shop opened up in our area; I went in on my lunch as it was one of the few things, besides the mall, within walking distant of the community college I was attending. In one corner they had a selection of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,ooo products. My memories of that catalog came flooding back and I picked a few up. With the help of the internet a few became many and I found myself with an army:
I need to figure out the macro settings on this damn thing...
I have two WH40K armies. These days I might play once every month or two. I almost always run my Necron army. There isn’t a lot of good ways to run a Necron army (there is only one) so it’s easy to prep for a game. My Ultramarine army though? So many choices, so many models, too many. I don’t have that kind of time anymore. So, instead of playing with it it’s sitting in my collecting dust.
Vroomm! Vroom!Maim! Kill! Destroy!Tanks. Cause Super Soldiers sometimes aren't enoughI have a lot of tin soldiers...The biggest tank of them allSuper soldiers in super army, cause, you know, you can never be too sureEven more tin soldiers...
So, what do I do with all this stuff? Sell it, give it away, hold on to it in the hopes that someday I have more time? Anything would be better than letting it sit in my closet longer. Taking up space that something else I don’t use could be occupying!
PS – If I ever learned how to take a decent picture of tiny objects close up… Everything looks like shit.
PPS – They’d look way cooler on a gameboard with a bunch of terrain. Like I have the time for that…
PPPS – If you click on the pictures they get really big and maybe look better?
My truck has been busted up forever. About four years ago one of the tires blew out and took a mudflap with it. Three years ago someone inserted a screwdriver into the driver’s side keyhole and busted it as well as co-workers at a crappy retail job breaking the handle to my tailgate. The truck was still drivable, after replacing the tire with the spare, but I’d just been ignoring all the others problems… Entering the car through the passenger side, lifting objects into the bed, etc.
I wasn’t dealing with the car because it was still operable and fixing everything was going to cost money. I was quoted $125-to 150 to replace the lock on the driver’s side, $100 for a new tailgate from a junkyard more if I wanted someone to replace it for me and/or paint the junkyard find. $80 or so for a new tire (yes, the blown out tire has been in the wheel well for four years; I am a terrible person.) D and I have talked about selling the truck recently, in order to pay down some of my debt, and I couldn’t sell it in its current condition so something had to be done.
While I was despairing over the cost of repairs D took action. She called up a number of junkyards and located a tumbler for the car door ($25). With the help of the internet I was able to breakdown the side paneling on the door and install the new tumbler myself. Money saved? $100-125. I also broke down the tailgate as well, and was able to remove the handle. $5 got me some epoxy and that was used to reseal the plastic handle. Sadly, it didn’t work… I was able to use the item codes on the handle though to locate a replacement on the internet that cost (with shipping) only $17. Savings? $75.
Next weekend I’ll be vacuuming the interior and washing the exterior and next month I’ll be using my discretionary funds to pick up some new tires. So, by the end of May the truck is going to be looking great and ready to be sold. Except I’ll have put all this time and effort into the thing and not want to =P
Where am I going to find the time to paint all this?
This is everything (I think) that I still have to paint for my tabletop wargaming hobby. What all is there? Let’s see a Space Marine drop-pod, marine squad, terminator squad, predator tank and random figurines; a boxed Mordheim set (includes terrain and figures); a Battlefleet Gothic Chaos fleet and Necron fleet; a pretty large Legion of Everblight squad; chaos space marines (if I can’t sell them) and noise marines (ditto with the sale); a Vampire Lord; a Dark Elf Corsair Lord; Necron Flayers; and, a Beastman Shaggoth.
Out of the games you see here. I’ve never played Hordes, Mordheim, or Warhammer Fantasy. To be fair I don’t have a fantasy army; nor do I plan on getting one. I just have these three models that I’d like to paint up someday. I’ve only played Battlefleet Gothic once. I do have a large Space Marine army but, I don’t think it needs another tank or any more troops in it. In fact I’m thinking about selling the entire army (maybe 3000+ points?) seeing as I never use it.
This used to be a hobby that I took a great deal of enjoyment out of. Both aspects of it: the painting and the playing. Now? Now, seeing these things in my closet just makes me feel guilty. Guilty for spending so much money on it all and guilty for not doing anything with it all.
I suppose the question is what do I do now? Do I try to paint these things up? Do I try to find the time and energy? If I do paint them. Will I then have the time/energy to play them? If not do I simply sell them? I’m somewhat worried that I’m losing part of myself here if I let this all go; at the same time, is that so bad? Perhaps I’m no longer that person?
I guess I’m asking you all what am I supposed to do with all this stuff now?
