Sick

I woke up early. The seventy two hour TB has been keeping me and the dog awake. My eyes seem to be producing something like a mix of clear gel, salt, vintager and curry powder. I feel like I have had a beasting and then force to drink a couple of bottles of vodka yesterday.  I hurt everywhere, and much more than normal. So I really would welcome AI to take over my day. Blurrg...

Today was set to be a busy day. Well busy for me anyway. Sadly I am currently busy taking day nurse and attempting to project one of my lungs out of my mouth and onto the floor. 

The only progress is that I have picked out what I am actually going to paint and I've put a couple of colours on. So that is fourteen Fleet Troopers, an Emperor Palpatine and some random stuff I got online, some of which were already in progress.

Time for a major Nerd Out. When I watched the original Star Wars film, the opening scene of the boarding of the Tantive IV (that's tan-ta-vie) stuck with me for a very long time. This was a big influence in a lot of sci-fi games I got into as a teenager. The usual Star Wars retcon ruined it for me. Which goes like this. Princess Leia is a diplomat for Alderaan. Not a rebel at this point. The same trooper uniform is worn on Yavin 4 (Lucas does seem to like the number four a lot). Which makes her definitely a rebel. If they are Fleet Troopers then what are they doing on Yavin? I think this is mainly down to the defenders of the ship needing a brand name so they could be written up in a book or a mini made (Palitoy and Kenner, you really let me down here).

Now what sticks with me is that the ship is supposed to be a diplomatic vessel, a corvette and a diplomatic ship. To me that is three different vessel types. But what the hell. A huge amount of stuff has been made up since the original film came out.

I guess I can go back to sleep now.

Addendum 

After some extra sleep, listening to the dog whinge for no reason I can establish, and having him become very "friendly" with my right arm, I did eventually get going. At about 11pm. No painting but there was a little bit of work on the hexes.

Now it's time to watch Willow.