February - 2018

Workout Recap - Week of February 18, 2018

Settling into a new place yet again, along with a few particularly long days in the middle of the week, conspired to keep me down a bit again on the exercise front, but I feel like I stepped things up from last week, so there's that. On the plus side, this place has a pool, so I've been having some fun trying to remember how to swim again. It's probably not the greatest idea to do that after a tiring workout, but it just feels so good to take a cool dip under the hot sun af

Workout Recap - Week of February 11, 2018

I said last week that I'd start ramping things up again soon, but apparently, this week was too soon for that. Continuing to travel and getting settled into new places is time-consuming, particularly when there's also a language barrier to deal with, and that's also not even considering that I've been putting in a lot of work for my job along the way. Now, could I have done more? Yeah, certainly, and I think it's important to be aware that I made the choice to prioritize o

Workout Recap - Week of February 4, 2018

It was something of a light load for this week. Just the fact that I’m traveling isn’t an excuse for that, so much as the fact that I was busy enough with work and a little tourism that I was willing to scale things back on the exercise front for now. I’m expecting to start ramping things up again soon, but meanwhile, what’s done is done. On a related note, this is exactly the sort of reason why I’d moved the 100 burpee challenge forward a week. I didn’t do a weekend chall

Orphan X

Rating: F- Length: 354 pages, standard paperback font size, larger than standard paperback page size During the bookstore visit that I’d mentioned in my review of Ravenor, I took some time to tour the bargain bins and ended up with this book, too. Now, modern day thrillers aren’t a genre that I have much experience with, but a quick bit of searching yielded a cavalcade of high reviews, so I decided to take a chance on it. If that line of reasoning sounds familiar, it’s bec

The Process of Painting Arael, Half Elf Cleric

Well, I sure took my sweet time painting this one. I'd finished the base a week or so after the previous one, but one thing or another kept getting in the way of painting the miniature itself. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Over the winter holidays, I got a bunch of tools and supplies to base with, and while I'd messed around with adding some little details here and there, this one was when I decided to go all out with making a custom base. Not that I had a particular de

Workout Recap - Week of January 28, 2018

And so, after breaking the streak of consecutive workout recap posts, I start a new one. I've got a couple of #random bullshit posts in mind that I want to make, along with another Process of Painting post (once I finish with actually painting the miniature), but I've been busy with some sundry personal and professional matters this past week, and I frittered away whatever free time I had on other pursuits. I will have a major announcement coming up soon, though. Odds are