Abandon hope all ye who enter here

last night was a good night, went out to play Warhammer again. me, dave, and a young guy who i can never remember the name of played a 3-way battle. 1900 points, i played my dwarfs, i had two cannons, two units of thunderers, and 51 hammerers. Dave played High Elves, and the youngster played Britonians. Those two ended up deploying right across from each other. so they ended up mostly attacking each other, i ended up just taking pot shots with my gunners and cannons. it ended up to be a Solid Victory  for me and the high elves and britonians having a Draw. though Dave won second place by about 60 points where as i won by 600.

then walking home i came across a very nice solid wood bookshelf on the edge of the road about a large city block and a half away from my home. so i ended attempting to move it with my cargo (my warhammer armies) to no avail, i continued on home to drop off the cargo, and to make a slight bit of room for the book shelf to go, then i went back out, and hauled it by myself the block and a half. it took me an hour to do so, when just walking the distance would be a 5 minute trip. yeah, it was HEAVY. so now i've got a very sore back and a book shelf in my apartment. it's gonna be great, i hanged my pop-tab vest on the side, i'm gonna get a decent dollar store clock and hang it on the other side. i've got my DVD player, and Sattelite box and game cube hooked up on the bottom shelf, and so far just my chainmaille in the drawer that's on the bottom, and warhammer on the top shelf. so it's really helping organize the chaos of my apartment.

going on to another line of thought; as i doubted my ability to attend Polaris (star trek diluted sci-fi convention in toronto) again this year, i've decided upon going to FanExpo (also in toronto but in august) so i'll have a bit longer to save money, and i'll probably take a train up, one with wi-fi access. and there's a listing for a youth hostel on the convention site, saying $25/day stay so that'll be cheaper than the $140/night for polaris's hotels. as well it's got more celebrities that i know of there. ie Buzz Aldrin, Kate Mulgrew, Brent Spiner, Sean Astin, Renee O'Connor and Jeremy Bulloch. so Astronaut, Janeway, Data, Samwise, Gabrielle and Boba Fett. and that's just in the Sci-fi section. (also compared to just the woman who plays Teyla from Stargate Atlantis). oh and they've got the Fonz. as for the AnimeExpo, i'm not sure of who's who off hand and they don't have any guests listed for the GamingExpo section. but i'm gonna go Klingon one day, Heero Yuy the next, and just generic Starfleet officer the third. Woot Cosplay! speaking of the klingon uniform, i need to still make the headpiece, and redo the chest armour. i'm going plate armour for it, a big sheet of mild steel, 17 gauge or so for the shoulders with 22gauge aluminum trim and details. then the chest peice will be again 17 gauge mild steel, or with aluminum trim. the aluminum will be provided via popcans, sliced up. the mild steel will be bought at a metal superstore. the chest piece will be more of a slatted armour, vertical slats, with the lower half hinged so it's still flexible and it's all gonna be bound by 2 belts one around the nipple level and one at the bottom of my rib cage. and under that is the chainmaille shirt, i'll make up some basic bracers and shin-guards probably with aluminum as well.

and now for a more immediate notice, i'm going to my tuesday D&D game. When we last left our daring rogue, i was in a prison barge waiting for rescue as he dreads being away from his belt for so long. The belt was his item familiar in which he put all his skill points from 3rd level on and all his XP. When he's away from it for more than 4 days, he looses the stored XP (and extra XP) and Skill points. so i'm going from a level 4 rogue to a level 2 P.O.S. so after his release/rescue/break-out, he's going to have to go find his belt. so suffer so badly....

so that's all, and keep your stick on the ice, we're all in this together.

i had got some new orcs the other day for my Warhammer Fantasy Orcs and gobbos army, and was anticipating the games tonight so i could try out my new orc unit. i also intended to have a nice decently paced battle, i was going for a fun night playing all my night goblins in one huge unit, I've got 10 of them. So i ended up some how playing 2 on 2. i finished my army list quickly, and had to wait an hour and a half minimum for the other players to decide upon their army lists, after that, it took ages for them to deploy, 2 of the players going out for a smoke break during what should have taken only 5 mins. *sigh* then we played 1 and a half turns before i finally broke and quit. They had been nit-picking the placement, angles and targets to make it more beneficial to themselves. so, i ended up picking up and dumping my army back into it's bin. We've got two players who commonly fight and argue over rules, they barely know the game, and they weren't in today, so i thought "hey, i might enjoy myself tonight. alas but no.

One of the guys who plays 40k was there, he had come and gone while my teammate and enemies were making their army lists up, he gave me a few bits for my Space Marine army that he had extra of, and a disc of the different army codexes. So that was the highlight of my day. i'm tweaking some of my units of Marines so i'll be more efficient in battle. ie, giving better weapons to them, reforming their units.... that's about it really, better weapons, and reforming the units. i've made a Devestator Squad and a quartet of Tactical Squads of 10 men each, as opposed to 6 tactical squads of 8 men each.

howdy folks, so, i made another sale of chainmaille today, a co-worker bought a byzantine bracelet off me, so i made $10 today. i headed over to imperial hobbies and bought me some more warhammer guys and talked strategy with a fellow player who was there. Actually i played very well last night, 6 units of space marine tactical squads, 1 missile launcher, 1 flamer, and 6 other marines. My opponent was playing Dark Eldar, we were playing in a city setting, and he had a trio of skimmers (2 attack and 1 transport) sitting near each other in the street, and i fired a missile launcher, made one attack skimmer explode, which set off the other attack skimmer to explode, which in turn blew up the transport skimmer, that one shot really turned the tides for me. I won that match.

Anyways, i ended up walking back home and passed through a residential zone, and there were a couple young girls out side, one was playing with a dog, the other sat at a lil table selling lemonade. It was so cute i couldn't help buying a cup. $0.25 a cup, the cup was about 6oz. and it was decently prepared. so yeah, i did my good deed for the day.

So, i was going through a bitz bin for warhammer, and found an orc skull that reminded me of an illithid's head. so i was thinking of making the head into a full model of an illithid, and using that for any future Dungeons & Dragons game that i play an illithid in. mind you, it's unlikely it'd ever be played. So i was looking at the Monster Manual for the entry, though at a +7 level adjustment, i know i'd never play an actual Illithid. sooo... i was looking around other places, ie Complete Psionic, and Expanded Psionic Handbooks and Unearthed Arcana. I found some cool feats in the Complete Psiconic; illithid heritage, illithid grapple (which stacks, and gives you tentacles from your mouth untill you take the feat 4 times and get all 4. At which point, your jaw shifts to look like an Illithid's jaw) and illithid extraction (which allows you to do Intelligence drain damage to an opponent). using flaws, human race, Psionic Warrior, Human Paragon, and fighter classes, i can get the full out Tentacles, and be able to take the Illithid Hunter Prestige Class. That class is focused on hating and killing mind flayers. so this character is part illithid, and hates himself. it's a very angsty theoretical build. it's quite amusing.  

...'cept the metal ones.

So i'm painting my 30 some-odd Space marines hat i've got while watching House. Today i was at work, just to make pizzas, probably made about 15 or so. it was a slow day. i like it when it's slow. Though what sucked was i missed out on my Warhammer Fantasy night. oh well.

Tomorrow's my first day as Mongrelfolk Rogue. I'm joining Hank's Game, Hank's a player in my friday game. So i've been pimping out my rogue to be a major skill-monkey, i plan on making him similar to the Spelunker build where i'll eventually be able to just drill a hole in a guy's house, and squeeze through it, rob him blind with a Bag of Holding Type 4, and slide back out without anyone knowing. I've got an item familiar who gives me a use 3 skill points get one free deal, so i'm using that plus the Nymph's kiss for a major bonus to my skill points totals, i just wish i could have got the item familiar at 1st level,  then i could get tonnes of bonus points. oh well. i'm still gonna be uber before i'm epic. it's an Escape Artist check DC 80 to squeeze into a space, that a head shouldn't even fit into. i'm at +13 right now. It's DC 40 to take a small item off someone as a free action with Sleight of hand. I'm at +19 right now, it's sooo close i could just touch it. if only we had a bard in the party. lol.

as i've got tomorrow off, as well as the rest of the week, i'm gonna use tomorrow to cut out my mek'leth as i've been saying i was gonna do that for ages. literally ages, it's been about 4 months since i bought the steel to make it. and i need to clean up my apartment tomorrow.

Instructions: Open up your iTunes and fill out this survey, no matter how embarrassing the responses might be.

How many songs total: 1314

How many hours or days of music: 3 days

Most recently played: Not available. (i use my Winamp )

Most played: Not available. (i use my Winamp )

Most recently added: All of them!

Sort by song title:

First Song: A - Barenaked Ladies

Last Song: 93 Million Miles - 30 Seconds to Mars

Sort by time:

Shortest Song: Star Wars Sound effect - Blaster. 0:01

Longest Song: ...i think it's an error but... Le Chic - Freak Out (from Shrek 2) 17:21

Sort by artist:

First artist: Abba - Dancing Queen

Last artist: Wow, i really need to properly update all the tags. but yeah, it's 30 seconds to mars - Hero

Sort by album:

First album: AC-DC

Last album: and again, 30 seconds to mars.

Top 10 Most Played Songs:
yeah, that's not viewable for me right now.

First Five Songs That Come Up On Shuffle:
1. Family Guy - Running Mates - Peter Learning to Dance
2. The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda
3. Rolling Stones - Time is on my side
4. William Shatner - Live Life
5. Barenaked Ladies - Adrift

Search the following and state how many songs come up:

Death - 2
Life - 25
Love - 42
Hate - 2
You - 99
Sex - 5
Wish - 16

as i prepare to leave for work in 10 mins, i'm just gonna jot down random thoughts that pop into my head.
first off happy 4:20 to anyone who lights up, smoke 'em if you got 'em people. ugh, my damn space marines fell last night, and one of them fell apart. i've just got some new (new being relative) space marines the other day, about 20 of them, and half of them have their pauldrons put on wrong, so now i need to find out how to take them off without breaking them and reassemble them properly. then i need to paint them my colours. Black with silver trim.... I call my Space Marines Chapter the Storm Clouds. Black against the sky but every cloud has a silver lining.... lol oh god that's corny i love it!
i've got a place in a new D&D game on tuesdays, apparently it takes place on a pirate island in a fort, so i'm making a pirate. right now it's just got levels in bard, but i'm gonna take levels in Dread Pirate later. and Legendary Captain. I'm playing a race called the Aventi, they're basically aquatic humans, if you ever watched Reboot, they essentially look like the top half of Bob and Dot when they were in the game in the episode where they meet Andraia.
I start off at level 4... shit it's 10:20 i gotta go. more later!

i'm currently online in the middle of a partial power outage... odd eh? i'm thinking that.. hell i'm not sure what i'm thinking. i just know the wall with the two power plug-ins are temporarily deactivated. and the plug by my stove is still active. and that my light's out. so i took an extension cord, passed it from the plug by the stove and plugged my PC into it. i've got my alarm clock on my desk plugged into the deactivated power port so i'll know when the power's restored. if'n it's not restored by time i wake tomorrow, i'm gonna re-route power to the phone and call my landlord. i hate being without power. it reminds me of the dark ages of my life. *scowl* so here's to a quick recovery of power.

Have you ever been up late, talking With a friend, one that you have so much in common that you kneW that if it Weren't for the hundreds of miles separating you that a beautiful relationship could have taken place. I Wonder at times, Where I Would be if I hadn't moved back doWn from sault ste marie. What kind of job I'd have,Who I Would have had as friends, or as a girlfriend. Would I be aWake With insomnia typing out a blog on a iPod touch While Worrying about Where my life Was going? I'll never knoW

i was checking my standard webcomics that i read, and i got to XKCD.com and they had a lil loop set up with Questionable Content, Dinosaur comics and another comic that when you went to one, it'd display the next webcomic in the loop. so i started reading the Questionable Content webcomic and was hooked. so i'm upto about 250 or so in their archives... out of 1111. so it's gonna suck up alot of time now, cuz i always read the archives of all webcomics i begin to enjoy. so... i've got alot of reading to do, it's a very good webcomic, i suggest you guys read it.

i'm watching one of the oddest things i've seen before. it's a reality show, with Mr. T. He gets letters from dysfunctional families and he goes to their house and help them. it's quite odd. One guess as to the show's title: I pity the Fool.

I'm generally not a fan of reality shows, but i've now found two that i actually like, Fat Men Can't Hunt, and I Pity The Fool. Fat Men Can't Hunt is a british reality show where they take about a dozen fat people from england and dump them in africa with the full crew of the show, and have them live with an african tribe to learn to hunt, and gather, and actually work for their dinner. it's a neat lil show, it amuses the hell out of me. mostly cuz the fat people are just so pathetic. lol

okay, it's now been over a day since i've had the mandatory hair cut; re: removing the plaster, i've attempted to shave the patches and longer hair into a common denomitor. ie same length. i scowl at hair, i hate it really, the only times you need it is when it's cold, and then you can always replace it with a good hat. *sigh*

 

anyways, i'm attempting to rekindle an old friendship that's faded. I'm also attempting to patch up a power cable's tip so i can use my laptop for the first time in months, and then i'll be repairing any dwarves or goblins that have fallen apart due to the 2 weeks of use for tomorrow's Warhammer game, and painting the wolf riders i've missed. Memo to self: i need to get a new thane to replace Thorium Silverbrow (he's my thane i use as my character minature for my Dungeons and Dragons game) Speaking of which, as it's now the week of game, i need to tweak my monk as i apparently gained a level of aristocrat... so i gain a shiteload of nothing. damn npc classes. thought i did away with them when i first died.

 

Tomorrow, i'm going over to my friend sara's so she can assist me in making a 3/4 mold of my head. from that mold, i'll be making a copy of my head, then building up that with some clay to form some klingon head ridges. then i'll be copying that with some liquid latex, it's already flesh coloured so then i won't need to worry so much about making them it proper coloured unlike the original.

 

um, yeah, that's it for this update. i'm just watching SG:A right now, i'm wanting to get a SG:A costume for a future Convention i'm hoping to go to in the summer. but only if i can actually afford it. so now is the end of this post. 

So, i was re-reading all my old posts, found the first post that i ever met Aly, noticed how attrocious my spelling was back then, and found a geek quiz, of which i did better on.

Your Geek Profile:

Fashion Geekiness: Highest Gamer Geekiness: Highest Geekiness in Love: High SciFi Geekiness: High Movie Geekiness: Moderate Music Geekiness: Moderate General Geekiness: Low Internet Geekiness: Low Academic Geekiness: None

original test results: http://thecaptain.mindsay.com/?entry=61

ok this is now the morning after that botch job of plastering my head. i went into work, cuz there's no way i could have called this in, so i went to work, my boss was speechless, till i said i gave new meaning to being plastered. then i went to the hospital where i waited in Triage for 2 hours, then they hacked at my hair and plaster for a couple more hours. they had 3 RN's hacking away at one point.

Continuation of the Molding process: Part 2

 

so, i gave up trying to make a big dough mold for my head, and i just greased up my head (with pam) and made up 2 cups of plaster of paris, and smushed it onto my head. it's very heavy and warm on top. i'm so gonna need to go have a shower after this. hopefully i can get this off my head in one useable piece, if not i'll be looking very odd walking down to the hospital with a cloak on, cuz i'm not gonna go out with a plaster molding on my head and have people see it.

Continuation of the Molding process: Part 2

 

so, i gave up trying to make a big dough mold for my head, and i just greased up my head (with pam) and made up 2 cups of plaster of paris, and smushed it onto my head. it's very heavy and warm on top. i'm so gonna need to go have a shower after this. hopefully i can get this off my head in one useable piece, if not i'll be looking very odd walking down to the hospital with a cloak on, cuz i'm not gonna go out with a plaster molding on my head and have people see it.

I'm currently in the process of making a mold of my head, attempting to use a flour/water mixture to make a positive of my head. not so much useful. ...and now i've got dried dough in my eyebrows and hair. i'm gonna be attempting to make a positive/negative of my head with the plaster of paris... hopefully it works.

 

and Hm. appears to be my word of the night.

hey everyone. been running through my Mindsay settings, attempting to get them to reflect the new me, which is just the old me that's been modified through two odd years of life. As i look over my horribly messy room, certain things pop out at me, my first hot plate from when i moved into my first apartment, my Curran hat; that was given to me thinking incorrectly it was mine only to find out that it was linked to a construction company that i've never heard of, my lil green photo album containing pics of the last semi-formal i ever went to. a picture of the band when we were in Vancouver, my batleth; the first blade in my collection, my shirt from the Grade 6 VIP program that still fits me; half the names have been rubbed off from years of use but are mostly legible. as i look over it all, memories come flooding back, it's the same way with blogs for me, i re-read what i've once sat and typed. Memories, thoughts, dreams come back to me, some good, some not so good, but they are still as important as the day they were created, for with no past, you can have no future.  since my line of thought has just run out of steam, i end it here.

okay, well this has been a LONG hiatus for this blog. i think it was my first one, could be mistaken. anywho, i was bored at work and looked up Supertramp Logical song, and star trek search for spock. [now i know what you're thinking. oh no he's still obsessed. yes i am. to some degree. i've very much mellowed from star trek. i've diversified my geekdom. to Medieval things such as the SCA, to RPG things like Dungeons and Dragons, to Geeky war tactic things such as Warhammer Fantasy (i play Dwarves and the Orcs & Goblins)] And one of my previous posts came up first on google's search. so i'm back. i'm gonna rework my display theme (hopefully) to more of a generic militaristic style.

 

hm, an update of what i'm doing now adays? well, i disappeared off to Sault Ste. Marie for 1.5 years going to Sault College for their Chef Training Program, i met my biological older half sister and her kids, moved to norwich region for a month to live with my sister to get to know her and that branch of the family, met my natural father, found out that i'm half indian from my dad's side, my "tribe" is from the Trois Riveire area, i moved to london to go to Fanshawe College for a semester also in Chef Training, went on OW for a few months, went and lived with a couple of friends for a few months, and moved into my own apartment, got a job at the Western Fair Sports Center as a short order cook. so, yeah, that about sums up the last 2 years or so.