Sand Rat

Wow - been a long time since my last update.  Sorry, just haven't gotten used to this whole posting online thing. Lets see - got some minis painted, and even posted some here for scoring.  Started a 40k group with some guys from work - we play our first game Saturday, which should be interesting as I think no one has any painted minis at this point. And I finally found out about a job thats been in the works since January.  I've leapt the final hurdle as it were, and have ...

Spent most of this afternoon undoing work I did in January - pulled up the ramps I installed for a friend so she could get around her house after a car wreck.  Her doctor says she's done in 3 months what most people dont do in a year - guess you could say she's driven. Other than that havent painted in about a month, just really havent felt like it after work.  I'm looking at 7 pieces that need to be sealed and finalized, 4 of which might make CMON.

Ok, so yesterday I go to the LGS - I pick up an Iron Man graphic novel, From Hell (cause you can never have too many Alan Moore comics) and a whole bunch of Reaper Minis (some at 71% off - got to love inventory reduction sales plus good dice rolls).  So I'm sitting in my chair reading Iron Man when the GF calls from the other LGS in town - to tell me she's snagged some more Orks for the Horde - on sale.  So she got me a Nob in 'Eavy Armor, a Slaver, and a Wierdboy.  So, the Mob Grows. ...

I have come to the conclusion that the people who call tech support have become even stupider in the last four years.  I'm sorry its hard to be sympathetic to an Idiot who Spent $5000 on a TV to IMPRESS HIS FRIENDS who cant understand that he too has to follow the established rules in order for us to send someone out to fix said TV.  Then of course there's the douchebag who wants service right now, or something that is outside what we will do, and knows if he talks to a supervisor he will ...

Sorry guys - the last few weeks have been a bit strained. I'm sitting here sore as hell after spending most of the day installing ramps for a friend.  She was in a car wreck just before Christmas, and has been in either the hospital or rehab since then.  The good news is she comes home tomorrow, and my GF can quit hauling her mother back and forth to the hospital. The bad news was that I got to spend most of today trying to figure out how to attach two ramps (one to the front ...

41.  Just starting my fifth decade extant on the mudball we call home.  Been thinking about this for a couple of weeks now, ever since another buddy of mine turned 41 - and missing a buddy who would have turned 41 last week if the crab hadn't got him two years ago while I was overseas.  Although, my GF pointed out that at least I'm not as old as her dad (we share a common birth day if not year). As for painting - I'm sitting here looking at a Reaper Necromancer that needs grass, ...

Going to be an interesting day today - got to run to Waco so we can have Turkey with the family - My mom and dad (who the gf has met and gets along with) my brother, his wife, their 3 kids, her mom, and her mom's brother (whom the gf hasn't met) - then when we're done there we're going to meet her father (apparently he took a run to Texas (he's a truck driver) specifically to meet me).  So today should be interesting. Yesterday was not som much - took one of the cats to the vet - he'd ...

Been a bit since my last update.  Sorry for that been a bit busy around here.  Haven't been doing much painting lately except on a couple of Christmas Projects (15 Christmas Villiage houses oh my).  Things around here have gone from bad to good - the GF lost her job the first of September and after a month off and looking, went to work for the same company I work for, on a different account in a different building here in Big A.  And, as we put it when I was working overseas, ...

Been a bit for me here.  Sorry guys - things went to hell last month around here, and I just didnt feel up to Blogging about it.  Needless to say things are better now, and I should be back to the inane chatter soon.

Been a bit since my last visit here to the land of the blog.  Not much going on except work.  Apparently the number of clueless cell phone owning asshats quintupled while I was over learning to enjoy sand in every available opening on my body.Yes, I work tech support.  And yes if you are calling tech support we probably hate you just as much as you hate us.  We do understand that you have bought a piece of equipment that you have no clue on how to operate, but feel you somehow ...