From The Dark Arse

It occurs to me that I have of late been somewhat reticent in my postings. Which is nothing overly new to be honest. There's always some periods where one is more compelled to wax poetic than others. However it has to be said that my energies have of late been largely focused on other pursuits.

Firstly of course there has been the ongoing regime of Wii fit exercise. Or "Suffering" as I prefer to call it. You'd be surprised just how much walking up and down imaginary stairs for an hour a day can really fuck up ones schedule. But at least I can do it whilst watching Doctor Who, so I guess that's something.

The next pressing concern has been my ongoing attempts to sort and catalog my collection of Yu-Gi-Oh cards. This isn't nearly as straightfoward as you'd think. And wouldn't even be an issue if there was actually some supported database for the damn game. You know, like pretty much every other CCG ever. But since the best option is about 6 YEARS out of date I was left with no option but to begin building a needlessly complicated spreadsheet of my own. One day I might even finish the raw data entry and actually get on with some proper deck building functions.

So far so boring, but the other thing that's been occupying my time is mini painting. This is something I used to back in the day when I was young and Games Workshop wasn't just full of kids who aren't any older than I was back when I was collecting GW stuff. Honestly, what's that all about? But anyway, the point is that I have, after a long absence, once more taken up the brush. And, shockingly, I don't actually seem to suck as much as used to. Some stuff has actually come out okay. And it occurs to me that this is something I really should be blogging about. I'm no expert, and nothing I produce will be as good as the stuff you see on some peoples blogs, but that's not the point. As long as I enjoy doing it I might as well make the effort to write about it. And you never know, I might even improve slightly.

So, over the course of the next few posts I'm going to try and catch up with the gallery of things I've been doing this year. All of which already exist on the google+, but none of which I've yet taken the time to put up here. Which, quite frankly, is just silly.