A Funny Old World

This is more of a rant than a gaming post. There have been a few things lately that have caused me to review what is going on in my life. So I thought, as this appears to be how I record my life now, I would mention them here.

I have had a few opportunities to consider my own mortality lately. Stuff going on, talking with The Older Generation of my family (which are really quite old now and not in the millennial sense of old) and being sat outside a funeral for a friend of the family that I never met.

In the past few months I have had some "Man in the Mirror" moments. Time to make a change but too tired to do it.  If I want to make my world a better then change is the only way ahead. Before anyone starts, this is not a self improvement post. It is just about getting stuff done. Not leaving those jobs undone. Starting projects with a real intent of getting them done. From brushing my teeth and reading a book to sorting the garden and eating right. This has been and may well difficult 

 

Even if it is hard, I have one good reason. That is getting so big they probably won't need a child seat for much longer. There are many things that are important but none more important than this one. 

I remember my grandad telling my mum that it wasn't worth buying a new pair of shoes as he wouldn't get the wear out of them. I feel like I have been buying books and minis that will take a while to finish. My reading, as an example, had almost stopped. Maybe a book a year, down from a book a week and often more than that. I am back up to about three or four a year with an aspiration to one a month. At my current rate I have enough books for twenty five years. This is almost enough for the rest of my life. 

There is less of a problem with minis. It's things like I have a plan to paint a Blood Bowl team every year. For me there is a lot of work in painting G Dub so unless I have a really reason to do so, I limit myself. With Blood Bowl I have enough sets to go beyond the end of the decade and a few years into the next. More general minis is harder to say. I have worked quite hard to get through the backlog (the lead mountain or plastic pile rather than anything to do with shame). A good chunk of my pile of stuff is there because it is leftover from projects that are finished or at least not coming back so I have no reason to paint them, although I often do.

Like life, the pile is short but life feels shorter. If you are reading this far down the post it's probably time to get on with your life and do something more interesting instead.