1. Never grown up and to be honest never feel older, hit 40 last year and honestly feel young… I put it down to kids they keep you young and childish.

2. Just another day but it is often spent doing something nice with the family.

3. Sometimes I will use the excuse of a birthday to pick something up but let’s face it I do this throughout the year.

It’s the Weeee … ender time 🙂

1) Are you growing up or just getting older?
I’m noticing a few grey hairs … so I guess I must be getting older.

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw(*)

2) Your birthday: do you care for it or is it just another day?
It’s just another day. Then again … a birth day that’s in the big school summer holiday never felt like a birthday anyway.
So I guess that migth be why I never really cared.

3) Do you treat yourself to something special for your birthday or can’t you be bothered?
I treat myself to something special practically every time I go shopping for toysoldiers … so why wait for a random day in the year to do so ?

And with webshops + creditcard I don’t even need to see other people … the downside is that you don’t get that same sense of exploration and discovery from browsing a webshop.

(*)(at least that’s who Google says said it first … )

No music ?

First the plastic …

German Country & Western something …

Are you growing up or just getting older?

It feels like just older every day. Learning new things every day. Like there comes a time when you have to *take care putting your socks on*. Bracing yourself before a big sneeze – when did that become necessary?!

Your birthday: do you care for it or is it just another day?

I care nothing for it. But only because most days it feels like my birthday. Honestly, some days the postie knocks on my door and I can’t believe it’s not my birthday. It’s only the lack of birthday cards with blue five pound notes in them that give the game away.

Do you treat yourself to something special for your birthday or can’t you be bothered?
Always. Because my wife likes to make a fuss. So we always make it a special day.

So what’ve all been up to? I got distracted (again)

I’ve given myself until Monday to get my DOTT diorama finished and app coded up (it’s growing into much more than just a battle-royale type game now; I’ve even added character inventory, so you can carry different weapons, change weapons, find and collect goodies….)

Pledge – by next Friday, I’m pledging to paint a couple of super heroes, finish my diorama, and invite a few other people to join in with my over-the-net play-by-app game. It sounds like a lot right now (especially since there’s also real life to be getting on with inbetween bursts of nerding out) but sometimes you need to push yourself, right?

Music:

Saw these guys live, mid-90s. Sure, the look like a cheesy mid-90s rock band (which is exactly what they were). But they were amazing, live. I think I need to spend less time at jam nights pretending I’m in a band, and go see the real thing more often, like I did as a young wannabe-grown-up!

So my new toys are STILL not here… A little grumpy at that, to be honest. So I guess for a pledge I’ll do something, maybe? Kind of hoped to be painting some new toys, but we’ll see what I get up to until then…

1. Definitely depends on my mood, but usually I just feel old. That’s what happens when all of your contemporaries at uni are 1 years younger that you…

2. I absolutely hate it and try to get everyone around me to not even acknowledge it. Never works…

3. I usually don’t bother. If I feel like it I usually buy some nice alcohol.

@scribbs Liking the look of the Napoleonics there! Officer looks great.

@blinky465 Manbat and the Credible Hulk are looking super (get it?)!

@sundancer Glittery bases? Maybe they live inside a giant geode? Quartz is fairly glittery, after all, and comes in most colours.

This weeks pledge is to paint up some of these models:

They are the nymph models from the Aeon Trespass kickstarter.

1. Are you growing up or just getting older? – Just getting older.
2. Your birthday: do you care for it or is it just another day? – I treat myself to a purchase and celebrate for the kids really.
3. Do you treat yourself to something special for your birthday or can’t you be bothered? – I’ll treat myself to a nice model or similar.

And in terms of music (mrs has a meta ban until the pm)

Keeps me humming along in the morning