[unofficial weekender] Taking it slow

[sundancer 42900xp 1]

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First time visitor to OTT? Then please introduce yourself in the New Member Thread and look around in the Project System. Then come back and read on…

https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/introduce-yourselves-new-member-thread/

https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/

Read all of this before you start as it will save you any trouble later.

First thing you must do is make your “pledge”. It can be anything gaming related, big or small, and you don’t even have to finish it. No, in here, happiness is the road. Have fun doing whatever it is, but it is not a race. Accompany your work with pictures or we might think you are do something sinister and just using us for cover.

You are also presented with a few questions. It is to get the conversation started. Try and keep your answers ‘conversational’, no text speak, and certainly no “basically”. This is how we all get to know each other better. While you are here feel free to tell us a story, show a picture, joke, tales of love or woe, or just add your own little bit. This is the whole point…in here it is just us.

If you have never taken part before we may bark and bite, but we also like a cuddle! It is all done in the best possible taste and it is character building. feel free to give as good as you get.

A few other things to note: NO RELIGION & NO POLITICS! Glasgow pub rules are in effect. If you need to make a better point then it is fine, but don’t take the piss. And always keep it civil. This includes no philosophy, no home computer culture wars.

Play plenty of music to go with your work. Loud and through proper speakers. Write us a playlist of things we might not have heard before.

Now, after all of that there is only one ‘real’ rule in here and it cannot be broken: NO DICKS! (Exceptions may be made for little fighting men with little plastic/resin/metal wieners)

And don’t forget the highlights of the weekend: The Weekender on Friday and XLBS on Sunday. And the little show that is the unofficial Hobby Hangout over at twitch.tv

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Question of the week:

• When you’re on your major leave/time off work/holidays: how do you plan your hobby time if you plan at all?

Also, don’t forget the new Secret Satan thread!

And now back to the show.

[sundancer 42900xp 2]

I pledge to the spirit of relaxing and not giving a flock as I have 3 weeks off work! What get’s done will be done but I shall not pressure myself!

Answer: Usually I try to plan “a lot” so I get things done and then nothing happens and I feel horrible. So this time around I will try doing it the other way around. See “Pledge”

Also: have some music

[danlee 22433xp 1]

This week’s pledge is to paint a batch of four “random” minis that I got from last year’s secret Satan.

 

• When you’re on your major leave/time off work/holidays: how do you plan your hobby time if you plan at all? – Actually I tend to not do hobby when I have time off. Even if I’m not going away for my holiday, I prefer to have no pressure to do hobby with my time off.

[limburger 21668xp 0]

three whole weeks off work ? what magic is this ?

taking it slow is how I’m doing prepping my house for the big move too.

And even though I sort of had a plan, I also learned the hard way that painting walls is a lot more work than I was expecting it to be. I had estimated it to be a week worth, but I’m forgot that I didn’t have the gear and am so not build for physical jobs either 😀

In hindsight it probably would have been faster if I had hired painters to do the things I’ve done, but otoh … I wouldn’t have learned new skills.  Planning a second holiday and then getting to endure all the heat didn’t help move things along.Anyways … as of today all rooms on the first floor have had their walls painted (white). No time to relax, because I’ve got the living room to do and it’s a big one that also involves clearing out a lot of the things  had been storing there while I was working on the first floor.oh … and I really hope the trike I had ordered a little over a month ago is with me soon. I haven’t heard a peep, but given that it has to travel from far away it wasn’t realistic to expect the exact 4-6 weeks estimate I had been given.I had a kickstarter arrive before the deadline it had set, which is cool as that rarely happens.Here’s a few of the minis

[grantinvanman 2151xp 0]

My pledge: now that I finished bingeing season 3 of Vikings: Valhalla, I am going to get back on the longboat project! I have a week flying solo, so no distractions!

I retired at … 47. Yep. So all the time I have is, frankly MINE! It’s actually harder than people think, to occupy your time productively when you can just put it off to another day. It’s a weird concept.

This week’s music, in celebration of selling a guitar and buying a new one with the profits!

[horati0nosebl0wer 19610xp 1]

Pledge: Keep pushing through unpainted miniatures

Leave? What is this thing you speak of? No work=no money=no food/necessities. Support your miniature economy! Does it technically stand as a microeconomics issue?

@danlee A whole year and no painting of Secret Satan figures from last year? For shame! Eh, no real judgment as I’ve still got stuff from a decade ago I had built bases for but haven’t done anything more to. Procrastination ftw!

@limburger More stuff to paint in 1:1 scale and smaller. All this work and you’d think that living a real life was a career unto itself.

@grantinvanman Yes, to be be productively unproductive means you aren’t industrial. The everyday experience of thinking what you want to do is odd when you had the plan of “go to work” being a time of unthinking grind. It’s not a wonder more people drop off immediately after retiring when they realize it takes so much effort to organize and be active on their own terms. It’s why I push my dad to get a hobby not before he decides to finally commit to his second retirement.

It seems we have a reason for that insanity

The evil of deer from Japan

 

[limburger 21668xp 1]

retiring at 47 ?
does one win the lotto a dozen times over ?
know were the bodies are buried and what closets the skeletons are in?

As much as I’d like to retire I’d also like to have something of substance to do every week.

I think that not having any hobby (or not being able to do the hobbies he used to love) was what made my dad decide he didn’t want to go on any longer.

I get bored when I’m on holiday, which may be the reason I never plan them. OTOH … I do need my time away from society to recharge. Now that I’ve got a house of my own I have one less reason to hoard my holidays, but at the same time I kind of have forgotten what having holiday really should feel like.

This is getting depressing … need more fun music

 

 

[grantinvanman 2151xp 0]

@limburger – army officer at 18, followed by a good government career. It’s weird how fast 29 years went by… let’s hear it for great pension plans!

No lottery, just a bit of slogging through the drudgery of bureaucracy until the finish line approached. I have few regrets, honestly.

Since then I have volunteered at a couple of places, travelled a lot (with a pause from 2020-2022, for The End Times); now I do hobby gaming stuff, I’m relearning guitar, and of course … travel! Five countries, four continents, all in the past year. ✈️

 

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[sundancer 42900xp 1]

aw… youtube is not letting us see the videos from Horatio and Grant. Evil corporations!

The day started chilled and then it went downhill with work calling because “stuff”.

Hopefully all is sorted and I can continue to relax

[pagan8thParticipant 10744xp 1]

My pledge this week is to relax as I’m on holiday for few days… next week I’ll get stuck into hobby.

Hobhy this week involves taking photos of things to inspire my writing of a homebrew campaign and finding a couple of rocks suited to texturing foam board. I also locate nearest gaming shop to where I’m staying ?

Next week I’m painting and writing and making.

That’s pretty much the planning part on holiday.

Succeeded on rocks and making progress on pictures. Visited game shop and bought nothing… yet.

[pagan8thParticipant 10744xp 2]

Just noticed the retirement at 47 bit.

I’m 60 this year and recently decided that I’m not ready to retire yet. Work might be crap at times, but I have friends there that make the work hours fun.

I’m single and the thought of spending 18 waking hour a day alone is daunting. I need to get out more and socialise, so that’s my new ‘pre-retirement’ plan.

When I was younger I used to do 35mm photography… for you young’uns that’s taking pictures on film where you have to think about the exposure and won’t know if you got it right for days, or weeks.

I still have the camera and do take it out at times, but not often enough. I’d like to do that again.

As I never learned to drive. my options are limited on places to go when I’m working though.

[sundancer 42900xp 1]

As I never learned to drive. my options are limited on places to go when I’m working though.

Why not learn to drive scooter or motorbike? isn’t as expensive as a car and gives you options to get somewhere.

Maybe we should start planning a miniature retirement home of sorts. With a big gaming room and HUUUGE magnifying glasses for painting and reading rules XD

[pagan8thParticipant 10744xp 2]

We do need a home for retired gamers. Retired from work, not from gaming.

[grantinvanman 2151xp 0]

The main reason I chose to retire young was watching other people I knew, who had similar career trajectories, and retired before 50. Two were dead of cancer within a year. Made me think and change my priorities, massively. I’ve now outlived them, so the plan is working!

Also, @pagan8th you should get a licence of some kind. At various times in my life I’ve held licences for military vehicles (fun!), motorcycle, and of course normal cars. Even though I drive under 5,000km a year, the freedom option is worth it, to me.

[limburger 21668xp 1]

I don’t have a driving license either and I’m so used to it that I don’t even think about it.
Who needs a car when there’s a bike and good weather ?
I might even be dangerous on the road if I ever were to get a license.

Webshops deliver to my door when needed.
And as a software developer I don’t even need to be in an office,altough I do find it easier to focus on work when I’m not working from home.

I’d also be tempted to say that the journey is part of the fun.

 

 

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