So many things detracting from what I want to be doing! I am making great progress on TZC II, Max and the gang are fast approaching the finale of the book, another week should pretty much do it. Then the editing will begin and I am NOT pushing the book up to Amazon until it has gone through better editing this time. (As much as I want to shove it out there, I doubt it will be for sale until June).

Not all of the stuff distracting me is bad, sometimes choosing to have fun is a distraction I feel mildly bad about when I am drifting off to sleep. I am talking games here, those tables I built? Yeah there was a reason for them… Right now I am going through a MASSIVE Catan phase (again) and I have started up a Heroes Unlimited game as well, this stuff is in addition to Necromunda and the standard D&D weekly game, count up the games my friends and you will see that four days/nights are getting consumed by socializing. Dagnabit! I have to cut back, but just don’t see where to trim schedule, Necromunda maybe as my gang just sucks rocks and I am too stubborn to just bit the bullet and make a new one.

The weather has not been helping things out lately either, mostly the problems are indirectly related to the weather, like hating to leave work during the day because it is negative 89 degrees out. Or having to stop and buy more wood pellets ’cause we used all the other ones up. The little things mess me over all the time. My day job has gotten…intense, as well. Between the hot/cold of your job is secure/you might be laid off I have gotten several new projects that are challenging enough to mentally fatigue me. This is a bad thing because then I don’t want to write/edit things during lunch or after I get home, which makes me miserable. I must write.

So what to do? Just keep going. A cruise would sure be nice about now…a week to just sit and type and drink beer, no games, few distractions and lots of free time. I might plan one for next February, knowing what I am going through now that would be nice.

Anyhoo, enough bloggishness for now. Until next time….

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You know, I don’t mind building tables so much. I could have spent the weekend writing about zombies, but instead I opted to built a 5 foot round table to play games on. My wife and I have been dreaming of having another round table that size for years, we used to live in an old school house that came with some furniture and there were six or eight of these tables in there. When we left we were given the option to take whatever furniture we wanted (our landlady was the best!) but as the rider truck was already packed to the gills we decided to leave all the tables and this one particular green chair I really liked. I won’t get the chair back, but we now have a substitute table. It feels the same for playability and we like the clear coated natural wood, things just show up better on natural wood than they do on my usual dark stain jobs. We liked the new table so much after even just three days that I build a companion table to go along with it tonight. This one is just a little four and a half foot long thirty inch wide job with a concave end that fits right up against our round one. This is perfect for our weekly rpg night. I am in the process of putting the finish on now, it takes about five coats to get a decent glossy sheen, but it will be ready for next Tuesday night!

As for the zombies, they shall have to wait until tomorrow, Friday I am off to Gamicon in Iowa City, so not a lot of writing is going to get done around here in the next few days. There is going to be a guy at Gamicon who is right up my alley, does zombie artwork for t-shirts and dice, I plan on hitting him up for free artwork so I can give my good friend a break from my incessant whining demands for cover art. I predict a complete lack of success, I do so hate asking people for things. It is amazing that I ever got married or employed. Anyhoo that is another topic…

Alright, I have to admit that I really wanted to test out the picture upload functionality of the blog. That does not mean I am not excited about the tables though!

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