Hardcore Saturday

Eat electric ... whuh?

The Electric Blues take the field and draw first blood vs the dirty Steelheads. 500 points, now I eat a charge. Many bad things.

Edit: The game ended with Nemo stopping a Steelhead cav charge with his face. We will seek revenge in the dreaded 1000-point game, maybe later today.

Setting up

Terrain tables set up.

Awake and...

Pay no attention to the time stamp ok this message -- tis a figment of
your imagination. Only up this early because we have to set up the
gaming area. Then it'll be time for breakfast, which my stomach says
will be a good thing.

Hotel is nice though quite frigid near the lobby. The room is way nice
& will have to take some pics. The shower is amazing and it was
difficult to step out.

Army mostly survived intact. Rowdy was popped of his epic base and
Thorn's spear was pretty bent. I have a rant about United Airlines but
I'll get to that I'm a bit.

And for the record, I'm still damn tired. I guess I'll take 4 hours of
sleep over none. :P

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Waiting...

Trip through security was uneventful. No hassles over army case
(yay!), we all just sounded like cattle being loaded onto a truck --
just with less mooing.

A few more minutes and we're on the plane. And I think they're gonna
try and make me stow my army. Off to discuss that. Not happening if I
can help it, bastards.

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Sleep? Whuh?

So I'm still up.

I know, I'm a tard. But at 3:15 a.m. when I was finished with packing and re-foaming and the changing of the cat boxes, it seemed stupid to try and sleep. So I tried to nap on the couch. And, as every cat owner knows, "nap" is cat-speak for "I must stand on you and stomp your internal organs into goo." Which is exactly what Cassie did. I figured, WTF, I can sleep on the plane. I'm sipping a rather horrid tasting Red Bull and will head to the airport when Scott gets here. I have room in my backpack, the majority of my army is tucked away safely in my SS Designs case (I love this thing) and then it's go-time.

I think the thing I'm most excited about is getting to meet these folks who have become like family. Sure, it's cliche, but we're very well taken care of, and I can't think of another company I'd want to volunteer for. Besides, Warmachine takes up a lot of my time. Not so much the playing, but painting, discussing, organizing... it's a ton of fun and it will be awesome to put human beings with screen names.

At least in most cases. ;)

T'was the Night Before Templecon...

And I won't be fully painted.

But that's OK. Everything except Nikolai has some paint on it. I'd rather not rush him, since I'd like for him to make it into NQ. I will still take Thunderhead Mk II to show him off, as well as my mostly painted new Reinholdt (yellow is much brighter than the one I painted nearly 4 years ago).

So, now I'm off to re-foam, pack and tidy up the house. I'm still tired from staying up and painting last night and I'm up at 5 a.m. to get ready and head to the airport. Color me excited.

I'll be updating here throughout the weekend as I find wi-fi access. I'll probably send pics of anything interesting from my phone if there's no free internet around.

"Real" photos will probably end up on my Flickr account and any video will go to youtube. I think.