Busy Week, Huh

So I had meant to contribute a bit earlier than this, but this week turned out to be kinda busy. It's not even over yet and I've already worked double my normal shifts at work, mainly due to an overly grumpy co-worker of mine quitting. So yeah, it's pretty much been work and sleep and then work and sleep. Then, on Thursday me, my brother and Tim went to go see Doctor Strange and then on Friday I proved how much I suck at bowling for my friend Idge's 40th birthday. In between those I also had to deal with that overly complicated crap-fest that is my not-really love life. So yeah, busy week.

Since my brain has dribbled out of my ears, I'll do another post tomorrow about my views on Dr. Strange and the new series Class, a spin-off of Dr. Who.

Checking out for now.

Perfectly Possible People

So normally I'd have waited until New Year to do the whole new blog, new approach to life (I'm attempting to be more laid back, since I know that I'm kinda easy to wind up), but I figured that I'd just do it now since it was on my mind. I've got a feeling that this is all just a reaction to getting older (I turn 33 in a few months) but I'm sure that most people do stupid things because they're getting older and starting a blog is at least less energetic than most of the other options.

That being said I'm working on going swimming more, since it's the only real form of exercise that I properly enjoy. I went this afternoon and I'm going to try and organise myself into going before I work on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays each week. You know, if I can drag myself out of bed for 9ish. Sleeping has always been something of an issue for me, either I do too much of it or I don't do enough of it and it's probably all at the wrong times anyway, but that's just me.

So from January to September this year I was pretty heftily unemployed, which certainly had its perks, but it really didn't help with giving life structure and having a good getting up time and all that rubbish. I basically vegetated for a goodly while. Like I said, it has its perks, I could go where I wanted, when I wanted. I got a shed-load of writing done. I played a mountain load of Dawn Of War. I... yeah, I pretty much wasted eight months but I don't really regret it. It was kinda fun.

I was looking for work during that time, but not like I actually needed a job, I was looking more casually. Eventually I find my job at the card shop because I just saw the notice in the door one night and figured 'why not, I can sell cards'. Didn't know at the time that I'd actually be working for WH Smiths, but it has its advantages, there's a certain security working for a big company and at least I know I'm getting paid at the end of the month and there's all sorts of extra hours going.

So... that's my job side of things.

Gaming, that's the other side really.

My Tuesday group had a semi-collapse a couple of weeks ago when my brother and Tim basically just dropped out quite suddenly. I know that the game I was running had gotten stodgy and painful and stuck in a muddy corner that was going to be a pain to break out of, but we were so incredibly close to the end that I was kinda pissed off that we didn't get to finish it off. Especially since the end of that game would have informed the end of another one that we've been holding off for a while now.

My fault really.

So the Tuesday group are starting a new game, missing two and a half of our members (Alex says he can now only do every other week, which isn't very helpful). Andy has a number of games he wants to do and one of them struck me personally, which is an Wild West Hunter: The Vigil game. Seeing as how I bloody love Hunter: The Vigil but never get to play it (I'm too busy running it), I stuck my hand up for that one and I'm finally going to get to play a murderous preacher, which for some reason is an ambition of mine. We've also invited Dan3 to join us for that one.

Why Dan3? We have many Dans. Too many.

Checking out for now, Xan

Will you need a bag or any stamps today?

Basic Info to get us started;

Name (on the internet)

  - Xan

Name (for real life)

  - Al

Age

  - 32

Height

  - About 6"

Weight

  - Considerable

Occupation

  - Birthday Card and Novelty Balloon Peddler

Reason for Blogging

  - My therapist thought it might help me out

Actually that last one is kinda round-about, I suggested it and she approved, so it's not technically a lie. Anyway, I've done some serious blogging before and kinda missed it, but my attempts after that first one never went anywhere and I let it slide for... hmmm... several years.

So yeah, here we are. I suppose I want to talk about me, about the world, about movies, about the things we see everyday and don't think about. But then I guess that's what everyone kinda wants to talk about, so I'll get back to you on making this blog startlingly original at some point.

Carrying on...

Hobbies

  - Wargaming, Table-top Roleplay-Gaming, Pretending to be a Writer, Cooking, Chain-watching entire series on DVD (I'm not onto Netflix yet)

Ambitions

  - To drop the Pretending part of the last entry

Love Life

  - We'll talk about that some other time, shall we

Political Alignment

  - Liberal Democrat (I miss you, Clegg)

So yeah, that's me in a nutshell. I'm trying not to be a borderline shut-in and having a job over this last month or so has really helped me out a lot (before that I was unemployed for eight months, which certainly had its perks, but getting paid was not really one of them). I like to think I'm a nice guy, I like to think that I'm friendly and funny (although to be honest I have no real idea if I am either of those things).

I figure that there's a lot of things I'm going to want to sound off about over the next few months/years (if I keep going with this one, that is, I could well leave it bleeding out on the roadside next week for all I know), but for now I'll just leave it with the virtual handshake that is me sharing a whole bunch of semi-personal details on the internet. Again. Because this time it's more or less personal.

Currently Reading

  - Yarrick: Imperial Creed (David Annandale)

  - Girls With Slingshots (Danielle Corsetto)

Currently Painting

  - 8 Heavy Bolter Devastator Marines

  - 7 Bolter Devastator Marines

Currently Writing

  - Episode 1-02 of Impact Winter

Checking out, Xan.