Well, we're 17 days into the new year and I thought it was time for a review.
On the plus side, my plan for a chocolate free January is going well. If it goes really well, I'm hoping for a chocolate free February, and hopefully a svelte FSN by Phalanax, so I may gather my courage and get out the house.
On the downside, I have managed to hurt my right thumb. (Don't ask how.) It's amazing how much you use your right thumb, and not just for deciding the fate of your gladiators, or giving the more adventurous lady in your life a little frisson. For example, one uses one's right thumb to hold a paintbrush.
Thanks to a change in the law, redundancy consultations need only be 45 days and not 90, so it was a less than lovely surprise to go into work in January and be told one is at risk of redundancy. The prize for retaining one's job? A pay cut.
Yesterday, I had the comfort of a little yellow package on the mat. No, the cat was not back, but my Pendraken order had arrived. I may have upset Leon with my Christmas offering, as the infantry came out as flats, the dragoons were just tiny horse heads, and the artillery had the same number of wheels as gun barrels.
So 2015, it's not going too well is it?
Keep your chin up FSN. Anything could happen in the next 348 days.
That's what I'm afraid of. :(
On the up side, I'm sure Pendraken are about to do some Aztecs this year.
That's right. Rub it in.
Having had two operations on my right thumb after shattering twice and having bits of bone fused together inside so now it no longer bends at the knuckle it does hinder ones painting attempts for a while. Though the worst part was not being able to use a can opener for 2 or 3 months
The positive aspect being that at last you got some unprocessed fresh food. Puts the mockers on the painting comp. entry though.
We can't stop the world turning. Stay confident, fsn. It'll be daylight again. Thumbs up! (oops, sorry - poor taste! ;) )
So far 2015 is progressing well, as far as I'm concerned.
Bathroom revamp should finally be finished by Tuesday evening. Once I've paid the balance due, I'll have enough left over for the trip to NYC I'm planning, to see my son. Several meals out with friends organised for January and February.
Plus ... I've broken my "painter's block"!! One unit of 6mm Sumerian 'erin.summa' conscript spearmen completed, 3 reed-built transport ship conversions completed and being painted, 1 unit of 'gish.gigir' donkey carts also part painted and a unit each of 'nim' skirmishers and 'aga.ush' professional spearmen undercoated. Yay!
Think I'd just got burnt out painting WW2 Germans :)
Ouch !!
Keep your chin up, Nobby !
Hope nothing turns out as bad as you fear.
Cheers - Phil
Hope you feel better soon
Take care
Andy
Get well soon
Blimey, hope things get better for you. A chocolate free life? Perish the thought!!!
Quote from: Steve J on 17 January 2015, 05:21:54 PM
A chocolate free life? Perish the thought!!!
Adele decided this was a good idea for us for 2015 as well, so I'm having to get my choc-fix either at work or by smuggling it into the house. :(
It's been surprisingly easy so far. Think it's just a question of changing habits.
Quote from: Leon on 17 January 2015, 05:34:16 PM
Adele decided this was a good idea for us for 2015 as well, so I'm having to get my choc-fix either at work or by smuggling it into the house. :(
Glad to see you've joined the ranks of secret chocolate gobblers lol
Cheer up FSN, think happy thoughts...
(http://www.enemyforces.net/tanks/centurion.jpg)
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Quote from: fsn on 17 January 2015, 05:55:03 PM
It's been surprisingly easy so far. Think it's just a question of changing habits.
How does swapping religious orders help?
Cheers Matt. A Centurion always brings on a smile! :D
Quote from: Fenton on 17 January 2015, 06:37:26 PM
How does swapping religious orders help?
'cos I'm fed up with being a deep fat friar. :(
Quote from: Fenton on 17 January 2015, 06:37:26 PM
How does swapping religious orders help?
Well, if you leave the Templars you don't get burned as a heretic, and if you're joining the Hospitallers, Franciscans, or Domenicans the uniform is easier to keep clean, if you're secretly vain about that. There are certain benefits to joining the Holy Lunching Friars of Voondoon too.
Just take it a day at a time and it'll get sorted.
Hint: Choose an order that wears brown robes then the fallen bits of Flake won't show.
Chocolate, although I am partial wouldn't be worth a Lent type give-up for me. Now if you start talking about giving up drinking tea, then that's a definite non starter!
Quote from: fsn on 17 January 2015, 05:55:03 PM
It's been surprisingly easy so far. Think it's just a question of changing habits.
It is indeed about changing habits. I changed some of mine after a warning about blood pressure in November and the results have been very positive :)
Hope the thumb gets better soon and remember Pendraken has some new Centurions planned ;)
I got sent home from the Doctors with one of those home Blood pressure monitors and had to use it three times a day for 2 weeks as the Dr thought it was a little high when I went to see him
The result was that it was completely normal
Quote from: Matt of Munslow on 17 January 2015, 06:32:28 PM
Cheer up FSN, think happy thoughts...
(http://www.enemyforces.net/tanks/centurion.jpg)
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Wow that's a nice T34
On a more serious note....I hope 2015 improves.
I really only eat Green & Blacks 85% chocolate these days. Some reports say it's good for you in the same way as wine, others that dark chocolate is bad for you :-\.
It's funny when you give up chocolate you realise how much of it there is out there.
We're all going to die - why live miserably.
Quote from: fsn on 17 January 2015, 09:04:50 PM
It's funny when you give up chocolate you realise how much of it there is out there.
..... and that would be because .... you've given it up? ;D
Chocolate is bad for (old) dogs anyway.
[when I'm sober tomorrow I might regret this]
I hate to say it, but I really enjoy chocolate less than I did twenty years ago (never mind the "road to Damascus" moment that was my first encounter with Belgian pralines in my teens, when I knew eating these was what I was born to do). I could give it up with only mild sorrow these days.
QuoteI hate to say it, but I really enjoy chocolate less than I did twenty years ago
Agreed. Long gone are the days when I'd polish off a whole Cadbury Dairy Milk bar in one go.
We have a bespoke chocolatier in town. Yum. Special treat choccy.
Otherwise, I'm a teacher, chocolate flows through my veins and clogs my arteries! ;D
Can't say I'm a fan of "fancy" chocolate. A friend of mine used to send me specialty choccies which usually had a sting in the tail like salt or chili.
Can't beat your Diary Milk or a Yorkie Bar.
"I've pounded the road, from coast to coast,
Yorkie and me trucking on,
for a long day's run
can be short on fun,
without Yorkie to help me along."
I'm a Cadbury's fruit and nut case!
Quote from: Bodvoc on 18 January 2015, 09:29:17 AM
I'm a Cadbury's fruit and nut case!
Preferably the plain chocolate type we used to get in 24hr rat packs.
IanS
When I can get it I like 90% chocolate, and I'm also very fond of the chilli chocolate sold by Aldi. I find milk chocolate far too sweet and cloying.
Quote from: fsn on 17 January 2015, 11:22:09 AM
On the plus side, my plan for a chocolate free January is going well. If it goes really well, I'm hoping for a chocolate free February,
Why is it again that are you giving up chocolate? Was it doctor's orders? Did you get
The Bourneville Ultimatum?
[See! See what happens when I'm sober? Is chocolate good for a sore head .......? #-o ]
Techno!!!! ;D ;D
This is my 3,000th post, so hopefully I'm going to get promoted. Will this result in a pay rise and an increased elephant? No? Well, hobble on then. Is it the 7 virgins, or at least the key to the executive loo. On second thoughts, at my age, perhaps a locked bathroom could lead to unfortunate accidents. As for the seven virgins, as long as they don't talk whist "Only Connect" is on, they can bunk down in the spare room. I've got to that stage of life when I see young girls and just want to protect them.
Anyway, I won't let this exulted new rank change me, apart from the extra gold braid on my pyjamas. I promise to remain the sensible, level headed leader and shaper of the zeitgeist.
Congratulations, Nobby !! :-bd <:-P
Cheers - Phil
Nice one FSN.
Never understood the craving for chocolate. Even allowing for the fact that it's got too much sugar in it for me, I've never missed the stuff. Now if it were cheese.... =P~ =P~ =P~
Well done FSN
Does it count 1000s were in leading for Cents?
Convene the Court Martial and bust him - NOW.
IanS
PS congratulations.
Well done Nobby
I hope you get as much use and fun out of the executive unicycle and waterproof epaulettes
Quote from: Hertsblue on 18 January 2015, 11:47:38 AM
Never understood the craving for chocolate. Even allowing for the fact that it's got too much sugar in it for me, I've never missed the stuff. Now if it were cheese.... =P~ =P~ =P~
Oh, now. Vintage Red Leicester, Stilton, a nice Brie .. =P~ .. washed down with some vintage port ...... :-bd
[btw congrats to fsn - tomorrow the
Hofkriegsrat? (Whoah! What a thought! :o )]
Congrats on the promotion fsn! You certainly add "artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing" forum :D
As to chocolate, C4* is my downfall when it comes to dieting. :(
*Cheese, chocolate, cakes and cookies :)
Or as we like to call them, biscuits.
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 18 January 2015, 01:16:14 PM
Or as we like to call them, biscuits.
Yeah, but C3B sounds like a droid from Star Wars :)
C4 sounds like something 'They' would put you on a watch list for typing. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 18 January 2015, 01:31:56 PM
C4 sounds like something 'They' would put you on a watch list for typing. ;)
Cheers - Phil
It's NOT Channel 4 then?! Oh myyyyy! ;)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
(Sure I'll be on some sort of list....I'm forever looking to see what different weapons look like....checking size etc.
If I am monitored.....Good grief, they must get bored....."Stroll on...he's visiting that Pendraken forum AGAIN !......Now his wife's looking at a horsey site for the umpteenth time." ;D ;D)
Oh, sorry, fsn, congrats on the promotion - from someone who thought a staff-college taught fighting with sticks. 8-} 8-} 8-}
Hope your thumb gets better nobby
Quote from: Leon on 17 January 2015, 05:34:16 PM
Adele decided this was a good idea for us for 2015 as well, so I'm having to get my choc-fix either at work or by smuggling it into the house. :(
OOHHH! thats a very naughty Leon.
I wonder how many browny points I can get from M'lady for dropping you in it !!! :-\ :-\
Congratulations FSN =D>
Given the average length of your posts you have worked a lot harder than most for that rank ;)
Quote from: Techno on 18 January 2015, 01:47:29 PM
I'm forever looking to see what different weapons look like....checking size etc.
Is that two separate activities? "No, no, Mrs Techno I was researching Japanese machine guns of the 1904 period ... I wasn't checking size again. Oh, this dear? A micrometer screw gauge. Yes, it is appropriate."
Promotion doesn't mean betterment - FSN
X_X
You may be a Major General, now......But you're still an oik ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 18 January 2015, 08:06:31 PM
X_X
You may be a Major General, now......But you're still an oik ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
Well apparently he was raised from the ranks...Only leads to trouble in the long run
Quote from: paulr on 18 January 2015, 06:54:46 PM
Congratulations FSN =D>
Given the average length of your posts you have worked a lot harder than most for that rank ;)
Yeah, :d
Quote from: paulr on 18 January 2015, 06:54:46 PM
Congratulations FSN =D>
Given the average length of your posts you have worked a lot harder than most for that rank ;)
There are so many potential double-entendres in that statement....
Quote from: Hertsblue on 20 January 2015, 10:04:25 AM
There are so many potential double-entendres in that statement....
:o