To Every Season

Yesterday was my dad's birthday.  He would have been 76. He passed away late August. My trip in early September was for his funeral service and to spend some time with my mom, sister, and niece (they live in the same neighborhood).

This post isn't really about my dad though other than that it in part explains why my posting has diminished a bit and will continue to do so. I had already been doing that intentionally per my New Year's plans but his passing was cause for much reflection (I drove 14 hours each way so that gave me plenty of time to contemplate!) which hasn't really stopped.

There is much to do and that I want to do beyond gaming and so I need to make some changes. I'm not going anywhere mind - twice a month posting will be more likely however, if that.

My hope is to make better use of my hobby time. In addition to playing games I most enjoy - focusing primarily on WWI and Fantasy (be it on Venus, the Great Game Gone Hot, or some imaginary place) because I realized I play WWII not out of deep fascination but by default - is to contribute to the hobby enjoyment of others.

That means more comments on others' posts to encourage them to continue posting, participating in forums, sharing useful sources of information, rules/procedures that might be useful, encouraging people to submit posts to the Lone Warrior blog (as the website manager, I handle editing blog post submissions) and running more games (RPG mostly) for family and friends.

As proof that work continues apace on my hobby related interests,  I am making "terrain", so to speak, for game 2 of the 1917 Stafexpedtion mini-campaign.

Here, too, is the current state of my painting table (aka the kitchen table):

Figures from Armies in Plastic, HaT, ICM, and CP Models. The house is from Target a year or two ago finally getting a simple paint job.