1st of the month so updates are due in various places.  I finished the Epic Celt cavalry who you can see here.  For your delectation here my latest progress putting 28mm Persians together.  Kardakes (Wargames Atlantic and Victrix):

I’ve got some militia/sparabara to do now and that’s the Persians getting pretty close to fully built.  Unless I c…[Read more]

nah, that’s just you getting older 😉

OTOH … I remember trying to read one of Gibsons’ books. (I think ‘Neuromancer’ ?)
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
Say what?

I think it depends on how flowery/poetic/alien the language used is that makes it difficult to read.
Which is probably why I doubt I…[Read more]

I had the error for the first time today, around lunchtime when doing my forum update here.   Interestingly the forum thought there had been an update as the topic went to the top of the current update lists but the update didn’t show up despite reloading the page after the error showed.

September already.  Time flies!  Here’s the latest stuff to be completed:

Finished the Draugr and with some other stuff I’m at 325/365.

That surely adds but I think it’s more the fact that I read those books as a form of hobby, spare time, relaxation thing. And my body seems to think “Oh, we got some us time? SHUTDOWN -hP NOW”

But then again, when I read stories to my daughter when she was 3 or 4 I also fell asleep reading XD

Is it because reading in a second language is more “work”?
When we lived in France, I used to love completing french Logic Puzzles books (les énigmes logiques).
But I found having to check and double-check my understanding meant I often read things four or five times.
A few times I completely messed up a puzzle because I’d read a clue as…[Read more]