CanCon is a week away...

I am travelling to Canberra for CanCon this time next week.  Followers of this blog will know I have been painting a team of Dwarves to take to the tournament and I am just about complete.

I have one more to do for the tournament and I have started doing the bases and then a varnish and I am all set.

The good thing is that it has turned into a bit of a family friendly event.  Given I had booked a hotel room in Canberra, Niki & the girls are going to come down as well.  The hotel room has the obligatory double bed and a set of beds for the girls so it isn’t costing anything more in accommodation.  While I am playing Blood Bowl at CanCon, Niki & the girls will do some sight seeing (Questatron, Cockington Green etc) and we will catch up for dinner after the days play.

I have settled on a line up with 6 Longbeards and 2 each of the positional Blitzers, Runners and Troll Slayers.  I am now whether to go with 4 Fan Factor and 1 Reroll or 1 Fan Factor and 2 Rerolls… I am leaning to the latter, but any blood bowlers out there with their view, let me know.

CanCon will involve 3 games on the Friday and the Saturday with a 7^th game on the Sunday then presentations.  I think Friday and Saturday will be 9am – 6pm so they will be long days.

Also I am keen to check out the rest of the convention.  Apparently there is one Dungeons & Dragons session running plus all the other Games Workshop games (Warhammer, 40K etc etc).  I don’t play those, but I always like looking at the set ups for those games.  I never got into Warhammer because of the cost and effort.  I have taken weeks (months?) to paint 16 dwarves… imagine how long it would take me to do an army worth of miniatures!

I will be keen to pick up a new BB team as well for my next painting project… I have been bidding for several on eBay, but given they’re overseas and the Aussie Dollar isn’t as strong, I get easily outbidded (cant justify paying over the top just yet).  Perhaps I will find something in Canberra.

When I do finish my team, photos will follow here…

I want to be back on holidays!

Day 2.  Overslept.  Had to catch the later train.  Was so late I had to go down to Emu Plains and catch up to the train.  Had to therefore park miles away from the station.  Pouring rain.  Trudged quickly through the rain in a suit with an umbrella and my laptop bag to get to the platform. Get to the platform and am informed that a) train is 5 mins late, b) is only 6 cars instead of 8 and c) that Car # 3 is locked up due to vandalism….

My journey was not pleasant.

 

Shark Attack

One of my mates from fumbbl Beefy Vanzino sent me some of his holiday snaps... now I am happy if I catch a Bream!

One for the fishermen amongst us :)

Beefy's Shark Catch

Best blonde joke ever...

I normally don’t like to pass on things via the email and only occasionally post other people’s material, but this blonde joke made me laugh…

Well, here we go...

Day 1 of the new working year today and I am on the train once again Dear Reader ready to bring you the cutting issues of 2006.  Issues such as train timetables, conks on the train, passenger etiquette and the like will be covered intensely with other commentary on such issues as World Politics and Peace to be intermingled on occasion.  At the moment though, I have nothing really as I have been living in a vacuum at home these past 3 weeks with nothing but my wife, kids and hobbies to keep me occupied and as such, I am bereft of anything news worthy.

The only news I have really caught these holidays was this morning in the car on the way to the station with an admission by “two of Australia’s leading super market chains” (um, who could that be?) that they engaging in the practice of “gassing their meat” and that the rump steak you buy “Freshly Plastic Sealed” could in fact be up to 4 weeks old!  Yee Gods!  Aren’t you glad I am here to bring you this stuff?

Anyways, I am sure I will have more to say about things as the days progress, but for now that’s about it…

Christmas Holidays - Last Day

Today is the last days of my holidays... Tomorrow I am back to work, so today we decided to go into the city and spend the day. We went to Circular Quay first up looking for a Harbour Cruise, but before that happened, we got caught up in some street theatre and buskers. Here, Kate & Brooke burst enormous bubbles made by "The Bubble Man"...


Then it was onto a Captain Cook Harbour Highlights Cruise. For $55 for the family, it was great value and took about an hour and a quarter. We cruised from the Quay, around the Opera House, to the Eastern Suburbs forshore, across the middle of the harbour to Mosman, past the zoo and Kirribilli House and then under the Harbour Bridge to Darling Harbour (where you can get off) and the back to the Quay.

The only complaint was that the weather was a bit grey, but there was no rain all day.


After some lunch in the city, we took the Monorail to Darling Harbour where again it was all street perfomances (I think we sat and watched 4-5 over the day) and sight seeing. We went to the National Maritime Museum (which was packed) but it was a "bit boring" for the girls. We spent a good hour or so letting the kids run around Tumberlong Park.


And of course the obligatory ride on the Darling Harbour Carousel. All in all a good and tiring day out. Lots of walking, but we pretty much experienced a fair portion of the city. Just need to rest up and get ready for the train in tomorrow. :(

WARNING: Gross Picture Alert

As a postscript to today's cricket, here's my left leg... got hit today whilst batting and my leg has corked right up... thought it was worthy of posting :-)