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Enjoying our final Cub Scout event with the annual Space Derby. The boys all craft, carve, and sand a small wooden “rocket”, which is then propelled by a rubber-band propeller. Lots of fun seeing all the designs, and just how fast many of them can end up going. After this, we have a single remaining Den Meeting, and then our crop of Webelos cross over into the Boy Scouts (now Scouts of America) in early December. And at that point, our commitment as Den Leaders comes to an end, with the last of my boys finishing up. No doubt it…
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The weather here has turned cold, rainy, wet, and icy, which means seasonal illnesses are back. Both my son and I are suffering from sinus issues, with lots of coughing, sneezing, and blowing of the noses. Fortunately, this tends to be short lived, which will be nice with the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. But it still makes for a few rough days and nights.
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Managed to play a game of X-Wing this past Sunday, and for the first time, managed to actually finish the game without running out of time. The battle was pretty good, though due to lucky dice rolls it ended up going bad quickly for the Empire. For our fleets, we are stretching the rules a bit – officially each team is only supposed to field one faction, but since we want to use the Millenium Falcon and Slave I, we have opted to allow Scum add-ons. Basically, we build a Scum list, and a Rebel or Empire list, and the…
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I think I am giving up on the early morning posting schedule – it was an interesting experiment. Overall, I can’t say my visitor count improved at all, in fact it seemed like it dropped a bit. Though admittedly at my volume, any change of +1 or -1 is a major shift. The biggest impact however was the challenge of posting content in time for the deadline. Although I managed to pre-post a large number of the articles, whenever I was stuck or distracted by work, it became a challenge to post something first thing in the morning. This way,…
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Continuing my collection of the initial releases of the X-Wing Second edition starships, and added the Millenium Falcon (Lando version). Initially, I was not excited about the model – the addition of the escape pod in the front just doesn’t seem right and makes the ship look weird. But after digging a bit, I discovered that it was a detachable ship, and the model was really two in one. Win win in my book. The colors are still a bit bright and new for the “real” Falcon, but I can deal with that easy enough. Also managed to pick up…
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Going to be a busy next couple of weeks, as I prepare for our upcoming Magic: The Gathering tournament. I still have to finish up the last pieces of the trophy I have been working on, in between what seems to be nearly constant rain. In addition, my trips to Toledo are more numerous, limiting my free time in the evenings. Fortunately, we have all but suspended our Shadowrun game, which leaves Sunday mornings every other week open, which will be helpful. However those days are also going to be likely assigned to the numerous board and strategy games I…
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By this point, the new expansion for Ark: Survival Evolved will be released, and hopefully our custom server will be running the new Extinction content. The wife is rather eager for the new material – she has plans of taming and crafting the new materials in the fresh land to explore. Personally, I am fairly neutral on the whole Ark game at this point, to me it feels like rinse and repeat each time, but I am sure we will all give it a try again to see if there is really any change in the process.
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Over the last several months, I have commented at times about how I had intended or planned for one action or another, and then ended up failing to deliver on my own claims. This seems to be a common situation, and one for which I envy regular content creators who are able to reliably complete their goals. Perhaps I am over eager, perhaps I am unrealistic, or perhaps life is just too complicated. Regardless, it seems to be a common catch-22 in which my good intentions struggle with the reality of life and scheduling. Although it is not an excuse,…
Halfling13 Hobbies
Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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