@unclejimmy – re: sarcasm, If I’m not good with sarcasm you might not be that good with emojis 😀 😀 😀  with the multiple laughing faces after my crack I was hoping to convey I was, well, sort of in on the joke.  I’ll admit not 100% … it has been a while … It’s also my experience that sarcasm delivered over the web can be tricky if not “over-delivered.”  You almost have to “ruin” it by overplaying it and making it bluntly obvious.  Also, I’m “in front of” a lot of people these days so I have to be careful I understand what people are saying before replying.

But you know what, you’re right, emojis are not “language” (no matter how much kids these days try to make them so).   So in the end, my bad.

As far as not posting in a while today, well, sadly … I’m still at work.  Time difference and all that, actually just now on my lunch hour.

You were on GF 8!  – Well, at the time, yeah.  I mean, this WAS almost 30 years and about 80 pounds ago.  I was a 19-year old Marine.  That adds a few +s to your dice roll, if you know what I mean.  Anyway, most of these were super fast, I wasn’t kidding about the two-three months thing.  @gladesrunner was the first to pass a year.  Then she repeated the feat 24 more times.  😀

That sounds like awesome work Heather does.  Jenn works with normal children (well, as normal as kids are in America these days) and she’s always exhausted and stressed out.

Wild Weasles rule. F4’s rule even more. – Yeah, it tells you something about guys who’s job it is to literally bait the enemy into turning on their air search / acquisition radar and fire everything they have at you … just so you can put a Shrike HARM back down their own radar beam and take them out.  Those Wild Weasel squadrons were some crazy, brass balls guys.

Anyway, I’m making the game pieces tonight.  Not sure if I will go with Air Force Wild Weasels or Navy F-4 Phantoms off the old Essex-class carriers USS Ticonderoga, USS Bonhomme Richard, or dare I suggest, USS Oriskany.  😀  (oops, there goes another emoji). They’ll be up against double their numbers of MiG-17s, plus plenty of SAM-2 support from the ground.

Did you notice the thread about the moon?  Yeah, bro.  It’s my thread.

Painting station – that’s awesome!  Man, my dining room table has been a perpetually-frozen wreck for almost six months now.  Check that… OVER six months.  I haven’t touched a brush almost since the beginning of the year.  Between Ops Center, Sitrep, and two game run on the weekend every week (Darkstar is now fully published, btw), there just isn’t time.

I also like the mdf garage / hangar?  There was some great mdf from “Things in the Basement” and “Impudent Mortal” at historicon.  I can’t use any of it (don’t really use miniatures that much any more) but some of it could have been used to bulk up my Dad’s 1:48 railroad table.  never made it back to buy  it, though.

I’ve also fallen into the trap where my painting station / hobby areas gets to such a point that it takes an hour of clean up just to get started, every time the mood takes me or I have an extra hour or so, I let it pass because I don’t feel like “grunt work.”

Another 90 minutes at the office.  half an hour home after that, than its making maps and game pieces for Air War Vietnam and designing Darkstar scenarios.  I swear, sometimes I go to my “real job” just to relax.