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.