John Zeitler

So the plan is that, since I stayed up excessively late tonight, I’ve built up a sleep deficit sufficient to get me to go to sleep pretty much as soon as I get home tomorrow, so I can get up early on Thursday and get done what needs to get done.

Yeah, sounds silly, but it might just work, so…

I spent last night discovering that I was almost out of white spray paint for priming the Imperial Guard army. That said, however, I also found that the IG infantry sprues are easier to pre-prime before assembly than the Space Marines were; I’m going to guess that the same will hold for the Orks once I get around to putting those together.

Tonight is a night for Rock Band.

So, I’ve made it through what’s been probably the most restless and work-addicted week of my life since my days at Gannon. That says something, probably more about how lucky I’ve been at my gigs so far than about how rough the week has been on me– physically and mentally. But, the good part of all of this is that the worst is over now, and I feel I can go back to promising daily updates. More to the point, I actually have a lot of real, honest-to-God content that I want to go over. And I will, I promise.

But tonight? Tonight is a night of feasting and of relaxing. Catch you tomorrow, folks, with some notes on These Hopeful Machines.

The two most soothing and comforting voices in the English-speaking world are up there.

Really, I could listen to that clip for hours and still feel relaxed.

Long weekend ahead, folks, and that means I get some time off to do what I enjoy: playing games and writing. I did manage to reclaim a couple Dreamcast games this past week, and as a result I’m overjoyed, so there’s probably going to be a post about those soon. ‘Till then.

So far this weekend I’ve introduced my mom to Can’t Stop and Ticket To Ride.

So far, I’ve not won either of those games. There’s a connection there.

I know I’ve been saying that I’ve been tired for a while now, but really it’s just the last few weeks’ worth of constant activity catching up to me. Fortunately I have a pretty peaceful weekend coming up, where I should be able to take it easy for a little while at least.

On a very slightly related note, I’m thinking about expanding some of the fluff work I’ve been doing for the Warhammer 40K campaign into a short series, probably to run on the blog hosting the campaign. We’ll see– I’d want to talk to the group leaders first before making any commitments, but I’ll be honest, writing for the Imperial Guard has really been a lot of fun.

Gonna have to keep this short because I didn’t get to sleep until late last night– or rather this morning– but I did go see Iron Man 2, which was awesome, and I managed to snag a copy of Picross 3D for the DS as well. If you’re into puzzle games at all, or have a DS and a commute or some time to kill now and again, this game is well worth the budget-level layout (and I was very surprised to see Nintendo priced it at $20). Be warned, though, it’s really, really hard.

Later, kids.

You would think that, being as avid a gamer as I am, I would have long ago developed a healthy callus on my left thumb.

As evidenced by last night’s run with Super Street Fighter IV, that’s kind of not the case. Ow.

Tonight’s the evening before my resumption of the whole bus-commute thing, and as a result I’m off to bed a bit earlier than before. However, today was very relaxing, so actually getting to sleep shouldn’t be difficult. Granted, I didn’t get quite as much painting done as I would have liked, but overall the fact that I’ll be able to do more gaming and other stuff during the days to come, and free up my evenings for the painting and so forth, means I shouldn’t be too far behind schedule.

My big problem now, however, is picking out the next DS game to concentrate on…