Six Weeks of Hell

Hello, and wow - I can't believe it's been this long since my last post.

First off, thanks to all who've checked in to see if anything new has been put up on the blog. It's nice to see that people are still interested in this thing, despite any progress notices.

Basically, the past six weeks have been absolute shit.

There have been a lot of ups and downs lately that have kept me away. Constant travel, social obligations, issues with the day job, issues with working towards the career that I actually want, finding out that pretty much my entire friend group are all moving away to distant locations, and a death in the family have eaten up the entirety of my time and attention since mid-June, and has allowed me to chalk up July 2008 as easily the worst month I've ever had.

So what's the progress prognosis? Well, I've gotten nothing new done on the army. Absolutely nothing. But the funny thing is, even though I would have liked to get some headway on finishing the thing up, I'm actually pretty happy for the break.

Probably the greatest pleasure I take from the hobby is painting and modeling, and I found that
I was putting too much emphasis on getting that part of the army over with so I could field the damned thing. And it kind of made me resent it.

My painting had become sloppy, I found myself taking shortcuts in the modeling of the things I was once excited about, and the whole process became a daily slog to get one more unit done even though I wasn't having fun with it. And once you stop having fun, and your army becomes a trial to simply "get through", it moves into the category of a weight around your neck instead of an enjoyable pastime.


So where does that leave me? Well, I'm taking a step back and reevaluating what I need to do to make the army into what I had originally envisioned - that may mean that things go slower, but I'll be happier with it. I'm also trying to get some real-life things in order and recover from the past month and a half, so I'll probably be working less on the army, but the time I do spend will be more quality time.

That's about it. Thanks for sticking around.