How things have changed... #1 - Life.
  Posted by mace at 11:51 PM // 0 comments
Well everyone, it's certainly been a while since I last blogged. But upon seeing Kevin's new blog, I too questioned why people create and post to weblog. "To what point and purpose? ^*1" I feel as though, somewhere along the way, I've lost my focus, or perhaps never had any in the first place when I started blogging.

So, to what purpose do I dedicate my blog to? this particular blog is a bit of a duality, I have my column for thoughts and opinions on anything that comes to mind, and a column to follow the life of mace in both meatspace and cyberspace. Someday I can look back at this and recall all the memories embedded in each post, or empathise with my past-self and the state-of-mind I was in whenever I wrote a particular post. Because, as unfortunate as the truth may be, there will be a time when things will have changed and I have forgotten (or don't want to remember) the events of the past...

^*1 who can pick the reference? =P miffy probably knows it off by heart ;)

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So much has happened in the past three months; where to begin?

House

I've moved house, finally! Quite seriously just down the road from where I used to live. So here's a shot of my *messy* room. But I cleaned it up today, no joke! Whilst i'm at it, my guitar:



From what I can remember, only select few have actually been to the unit where I used to live, and I'm sure you can all remember how small it is! Packing my group in here + extra's after our Year 12 Formal was very fun though =)

Now our rumpus room is just as big, if not bigger than the unit's lounge room + bedroom area combined. So eventually we'll get a pool table and table tennis table to go in there!

Life

Life is good. Uni is.. meh. I'm making my way through the session. Been having fun, haven't really caught up with some old friends lately.. which is rather unfortunate. I'm glad I have my hobbies though...

It's back to uni this week, although I have engineering week, so I have a few more days of break =) I better start work and catch up on everything I've missed out on.

Working itself, at Dick Smith, well I've been doing ok in sales, but been dropping down lately, and haven't been selling warranties. Sometimes it's pretty stressful, but now I'm a lot more relaxed about it all. Next week I'm getting bumped off into music, so bye bye sales targets (and commissions) =)


More about life in the parallel post (when I get around to writing it...)

Tech

I've since upgraded my computer, and bought a new laptop from HP. It's allll good.
The specs, off the top of my head:

      Desktop     Laptop (HP DV6519TX)
CPU   P4 2.53Ghz  C2D T7100 1.8Ghz
RAM   2GB SDRAM   2GB DDRRAM
GFX   GF 6600GT   GF 8400M GS
OS    WinXP       Vista Premium
HDD   80/160      160
Mon   19" Wide    15.4" Wide
Res   1440x900    1280x800

Laptop has all this cool extra stuff, webcam, altec lensing speakers, fingerprint reader, hdmi out.. but it basically trumps my PC. Surprisingly good specs for a laptop, turned out to be a beasty entertainment pc.



I've been gaming a fair bit lately, especially with the mid-session break (sorry theresa!) - although I haven't dropped as far as to play WoW. Instead, been playing Quake Wars demo, could potentially get recruited into a clan to play in competitions.. but I don't think I'll be getting the full game anytime soon. So much for being a pro-gamer.

Meanwhile, Halo 3 was released a week ago; played through nearly half the game at tom's house, and played a bit during my lunch break at work. It's just awesome.

After looking at Ikea catalogues, and searching the net for LED tables... if I had a chance to design my own house/room.. it would be as techy as I could possibly make it of course! I'm talking about LCD's everywhere, funky lighting and interactivity, the works!

Warhammer 40k

Well I've gone and given this a bit more attention lately. A few days ago I decided to pull out everything I had, and chuck it down on the table. That's not even including the Battle for Macragge stuff my brother has nor his space marines. The scale of my collection surprised even me =\



So, for starters, for anyone who isn't aware of it by now, yes I play warhammer 40k, as you can expect a typical 'true' geek to do. For those who are game-savvy - well there's a new expansion coming up, called Apocalypse. Yes I'm caught up in the hype, but it's just going to be massive. Huge 3000+ point battles, where the FOC restrictions are removed and you can basically put down and use anything you want, in arbitrary quantities (I've been hearing things from 6 Baneblades to an army of assassins!).

I'm getting closer to my aim of a 2000 point pure mech list, but once I have the models for that, I'll have 3000ish points in models anyway that I can put down and use. 1/4 of it largely useless IMO but anyhow.

Apocalypse on October 13th. Funny to casually put a date on such a phrase. Anyway, I have one of the bundles on pre-order, that includes a Baneblade, Linebreaker Squadron (3 Vindicators), the book, and the Apocalyptic templates. Meanwhile I've just won some stuff off Ebay for my Tau, which should hopefully arrive soon.

With all this attention back on 40k, I'm now tossing up even more ideas of projects to run in parallel. So here goes:

• Tau: Reach my ideal 2000 point mech list. Move onwards to 3000 points for Apocalypse.
• Marines: Figure out what to do with my marine army. Thinking of going for Blood Angels, but Dark Angels and leaving it as Black Templars and just expanding is tempting.
• Daemonhunters - well I have that 2000 Point list to work towards. I can always add in a Baneblade just for fun, and more units of Terminators.
• Imperial Guard - I'm getting a Baneblade. What do I do with it!? Thinking of getting more IG.
• Movie Marines: I want to convert up some models for this. And build a remote-control and/or LED-lit rhino for the squad.
• Deathwatch: I just want a squad because they're awesome. I've been reading too many sci-fi novels.
• I should build a gaming table. I mean I have the space now, even to put one in my room. Cities of Death/Apocalypse themes are the way to go.

I've also been to GW a few times in the past week, been working on some models that have been sitting here for over a year... So, from my WIP bench, I have a techpriest and a piranha that I'm working on at the moment. The techpriest was kind-of subject to a 15-minute speed-painting session.. just so I have a general idea of what it will look like. I will of course go back and fix it up with a lot more detail... As for the piranha, I'm still on the first colour, the blue-lining still has a long way to go, but you can see the general gist of it =) Still heaps of detailing left to do on the cockpit and pilots, as well as the drones and engine blocks. The highlighting is really dodgy in the second pic...



More on my Tau army progress and Apocalypse as it comes.

.mace out

Labels: 40k, Apocalypse, gaming, life, Tau

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