The Time of Plenty is Upon Me

I’ve spent a lot of time over the holidays sick, with the latest being a case of Bronchitis that took me out for four workdays, plus a weekend. To this end I haven’t been up for much of anything and very little has gotten done. Only on the last day did I get any painting done in the afternoon. Happily I was able to finish the flesh, helmet and battledress for six more WWII Canadians. I always feel like I’m on the home stretch after I finish the battledress, and even spent some time today working through the webbing. I have some pictures which I will share later.

My firm’s busy season is upon me and my hours will shift from 9-5 to 10-6. On the downside this takes me out of sync with my family. I’ll be arriving home just in time to wish my daughter a good night. On the upside it’ll give me an extra hour in the evening to get some painting, writing, blogging and reading done, all of which are part of my New Years resolutions.

All I have to do is train my daughter to wake up at 8am instead of 7am, otherwise I’m waking up at the exact same time and having an hour to kill in the morning. From my experience working evening shifts in previous jobs I don’t get much done in the hours before work. There’s something about that hard deadline—I have to stop whatever I’m doing by this time or be late for work—that makes it hard for me to get something started. A bedtime deadline is more forgiving and if I go a half-hour longer than intended I’m just losing a half-hour of sleep.

Which is to say, I expect to get more stuff up on the blog in the coming months. I’m not sure where I am in the schedule of my WWII project—probably late—but I feel I’m making good progress and nearing the end. Afterwards I finally get to buy the box of Victrix Peninsular British I’ve been looking forward to. When that’s done hopefully my friends will have bought some Flames of War so that I can too. And at some point I should probably build some terrain.

Tyler