Well...
This morning, I have a face the colour of a tomato.... :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
MONTHS ago...Leon sent me back some bits and bobs for finishing off/converting.
In with that packet was supposed to be the Falklands' mortar chap that I needed to tweak.
No he definitely wasn't in there....Looked and looked...took all the packaging out...No...He's definitely not in there.
To cut a long story short....Leon was convinced it wasn't at PD Towers....I was convinced it wasn't here. (I have to admit, I was beginning to wonder whether it HAD turned up here...I'd dropped it on the floor and lost it in a 'hoovering' session.)
Anyway...This morning I again went through some of the little plastic boxes that use to send soldiers up to Leon.
Box 1.....One small piece of foam....Empty apart from that.
Box 2....Completely empty
Box 3....A piece of folded kitchen towel (CLEAN !) and a bit of bubble wrap..
Not there either.....Take out kitchen towel....Box empty...Look at bubble wrap....Nope....Bubble wrap doesn't have anything in it.
Go to put bubble wrap back in box.......Something drops on the floor.....
You can guess !.....Almost as though it had dropped out of warp space.
As well as being SO embarrassed for worrying Leon (and wasting his time) I'm absolutely bemused why I didn't see the wee chap any of the times I've looked.....Must be four or five times I've checked - TO MAKE SURE I HAVEN'T GOT IT !
I don't believe in entities such as the 'Cosmic Joker'......But if it was him.....Ha, ha, bloody ha !
I've sent Leon a 'huge apology' email.....But I'm posting this as
a) A public apology, and
b) To make sure Leon spots this in case the email doesn't turn up !!
Cheers - A Stupid Muppet :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Now we need to find out where the Aztecs have been mislaid, of course.
A 10mm figure? I can fail to spot things hundreds of times bigger :)
So want that mortar!!! Please don't lose it again!
Just had a High Elf general 'reappear' after being AWOL all weekend, feel you pain dude. :'(
Quote from: Ithoriel on 23 April 2014, 09:50:23 AM
A 10mm figure? I can fail to spot things hundreds of times bigger :)
Yeah, like the bright yellow Citroen I nearly broadsided the other day. :o :o :o :o :o
Quote from: FierceKitty on 23 April 2014, 09:44:24 AM
Now we need to find out where the Aztecs have been mislaid, of course.
Ask Cortez........and stop MOANING about them. :D
IanS
Dear Mr Techno
I have noticed this effect in Pendraken products.
Just charge the little blighter with being AWOL. In fact, you could make some court martial figures ... "Carrington VC" anyone?
I recently found SEVERAL BOXES OF 28MM FIGURES which I had mislaid! ;D ;D ;D At least it saved yet more expense. My mate has mislaid an entire 10mm SYW French Army!
If you want something found ask the wife/girlfriend - don't ever ask a bloke to look :o
Quote from: Nosher on 23 April 2014, 11:52:11 AM
If you want something found ask the wife/girlfriend
Possible answers to "Have you seen ...." are "Yes" or "No." "Where did you last see it?" isn't an answer, it's a provocation. >:(
Hmmm. Isn't "Where did you have it last?" the one that makes you wonder whether divorce is such a bad idea?
Quote from: Techno on 23 April 2014, 09:31:55 AM
I've sent Leon a 'huge apology' email.....But I'm posting this as
a) A public apology, and
b) To make sure Leon spots this in case the email doesn't turn up !!
Thanks for the post (and the email!), I'm just glad to hear he's turned up safely! I was starting to think one of the kids had swiped him when they were in the office, so I was half expecting to find him doing duty in a Lego castle at home... :D
Does 10mm work with Lego?...Interesting
It's better with 3mm - 2 bricks make a nice terrace (after a paint job0.
IanS
Talking of muppets - 10 days ago I
(a) decided to use a different green colour as a base colour on the bases of some of my SYW - and promptly found out it wasn't quite right (fixable but a pain)
(b) needed to repaint 2 French SYW guns with blue-grey carriages from red (which would have been pre-SYW) - and promptly repainted 2 Hanoverian gun models instead which should have remained red ... (again fixable but embarassing).
Regards
Edward
That's not THE missing French SYW army is it?
When is The Muppets range coming out? Will there be armoured and unarmoured Kermit figures?
Don't tempt me ! :P ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: FierceKitty on 23 April 2014, 01:07:35 PM
Hmmm. Isn't "Where did you have it last?" the one that makes you wonder whether divorce is such a bad idea?
What's worse is "well, you've got lots more the same."
For me, the first chink in domestic bliss was when the now ex-Mrs FSN called a Centurion "just another green tank".
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vr05VeReTgg/TjmKAf-ORQI/AAAAAAAAKtg/xFtCoFxbAME/s400/kermit%2Bgun.jpg)
Quote from: Nosher on 23 April 2014, 11:52:11 AM
If you want something found ask the wife/girlfriend - don't ever ask a bloke to look :o
When my kids were at infants school, one of the rather attractive teachers they had used to say to them when they could not find something "Have you had a Mummy or a Daddy look?" :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 23 April 2014, 09:50:23 AM
A 10mm figure? I can fail to spot things hundreds of times bigger :)
I can use a pot of paint, put it down on the painting table, use another colour and then fail to be able to find the cpot I just put down >:(
I spent half an hour looking for a pin vise on the desk a good while ago.
It was right in front of me.....But I couldn't see it, as it was laying flat on the desk, unlike the other two vises (?) that were standing up. #-o #-o
Mind you....If you saw the state of my desk, you'd wonder how I could find anything ! at all, most of the time.
Cheers - Phil
Don't worry about it, Phil. No tidy person ever made anything inspired. ;)
That's what I keep telling the wife......But she never believes me ! ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Hertsblue on 25 April 2014, 08:12:12 AM
Don't worry about it, Phil. No tidy person ever made anything inspired. ;)
As we say in the Netherlands:
'Neatness is for the dumb, the genius masters the chaos' :d
(but then in Dutch of course!)
Cheers,
Rob
I shall remember that Rob !! ;)
I like it !
Cheers - Phil.
A tidy desk, a sick mind......
IanS
I once had a boss who had the tidiest desk I'd ever seen. Could not work with him!!
Try working with a primarily female team ' I have been dusted and tidied on a daily basis as punishment for being the only source of logic on a female acute ward for 15 years .!
Welcome, and don't STAND STILL......
IanS
Is that on the basis of "if it moves, salute it; if it doesn't, paint it white"?
you got it.....
IanS
Quote from: Ace of Spades on 25 April 2014, 09:57:20 AM
As we say in the Netherlands:
'Neatness is for the dumb, the genius masters the chaos' :d
(but then in Dutch of course!)
Cheers,
Rob
Love that quote, Rob. I'm definitely going to use that one. My whole work area is a disaster but I know where anything and everything is. I once had a colleague ask where a certain file was, went to my desk and produced it from the bottom of a stack, one of at least six, about 4 inches (100mm) deep and covered with other sundry items, and had it in their hands within 4 seconds! :>
Don't ask me to remember the name of somebody I just met though - mind's like a steel sieve! :-/
My Mom's maiden name is Huycke, which I'm told is from Friesland. The family immigrated to New Amsterdam in about the 1620's.
Got any green cheese?
Cheers,
Rob :D
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 25 April 2014, 12:04:27 PM
I once had a boss who had the tidiest desk I'd ever seen. Could not work with him!!
My bosses desk is empty. I regularly receive reminders about the "Clear desk pollicy", I've had to lose the out tray, as I'm only allowed 2 (In and filing)
you have just explained the reason for scale creep!
small figures couldnt be seen, so they kept making them bigger to help find them
Quote from: Last Hussar on 07 May 2014, 08:49:02 PM
My bosses desk is empty. I regularly receive reminders about the "Clear desk pollicy", I've had to lose the out tray, as I'm only allowed 2 (In and filing)
I once knew an insurance broker who had three trays on his desk labelled "In", "Out" and "To Hell With It".
Long, long ago, in a career far, far away, one of my bosses had three Out Trays labelled "Solved by Me", "Solved by Others" and "Solved by Time." The latter containing slightly more than either of the others.
"Solved by Me" were things he had to deal with.
"Solved by Others" were things to be passed for action to someone else.
"Solved by Time" were the things that if he left in that tray would never be asked about again. Every so often he took the bottom half of the stack and shredded it.
Quote from: Hertsblue on 08 May 2014, 07:08:49 AM
I once knew an insurance broker who had three trays on his desk labelled "In", "Out" and "To Hell With It".
A former colleague had five trays
Urgent
Very urgent
Extremely urgent
Incredibly urgent
Unbelievably urgent
They
still get the point that he was overloaded ;D