What I'm Up To: An Occasional Status Update

So, I decided since I've nothing better to do right now, I'd make a pointless status update in the form of a blog!

I'm currently halfway through my holiday from work - I booked a ten day period off and don't have to be in until a week today, so that's actually a full two week period off! Since I work at a supermarket, I don't have "weekends" as such, so ten day period is literally a ten day block. I was only working three of those, but by booking the entire week off I avoid having to explain to my boss that I booked off those three days and didn't expect to work alternative shifts.

I'm also stumped on what to do computer-wise. Frequent viewers of my blogs may note that I seem to have had more issues with my computer in the last year and a bit than most people have in their entire lives. Well, the news on that front is that I'm apparently due an abrupt SMART Disk 4 error, which I've effectively concluded is a hard drive error with some handy help from my technologically-adept dad. I technically have enough money to afford a new machine, or at least will do so by tomorrow (I get paid weekly every Friday, so last week's wages will go in tomorrow), but since Christmas is lurking on the horizon I don't want to be caught out. Plus, after Christmas some newish tech might be going cheap - due to being "obsolete" from a top-quality POV and January Sales. Because of this, I'm weighing up a new hard drive - and am simply wondering if I should go for a "standard" SSD which'll be about £80. It should do for the meantime, at least, but I'm not completely convinced.

My roleplaying has been stopped for now. I just don't have the same amount of enjoyment doing it anymore - solo-wise I find that my character concepts are met and that the character then bores me somewhat; and group-wise I've yet to find a group who enjoys the same things as I do AND simultaneously pushes me to do my best as opposed to half-arsing it. Plus, what was fun at age x isn't quite so fun at age x+7.

Finally, I'm weighing up starting up my miniature painting/ gaming again. I'm still very much wishing to get down to properly convert and paint a Thorin's Company in cloaks (to match the Dwarves as shown in The Hobbit Gamecube game), I want to get a proper Blood Bowl team or two (or three... or four...) painted up for use if/ when I find myself with the time and money to indulge in that hobby again, and there's a number of fresh ideas in my head. However, it's a cost-to-enjoyment ratio that will factor in: will I be using these models at all, and if not, am I going to enjoy the work going into them enough to justify the time and money put into them? I'm not sure right now, so it's up in the air.

Hope this has helped(?) to inform you on what I'm up to and where I'm at!