Space, The Final.. COBRA!

03.24.2009

I'm excited about a couple of movies coming out this summer. I never get excited about movies coming out, especially to the point to where I'm planning ahead of time to go see them. And not just a few days ahead, but months ahead.

To no ones surprise, I'm awaiting the new Star Trek movie currently scheduled for a May 8 release. There are sure to be midnight showings, but I'm not going to be in that group. I'm not even planning on cramming in with the hardcore nerds over the weekend. For this one, I'm going to wait until mid-week and try to catch a matinee. Ha, not as hardcore nerd as you thought I was!

August 7 brings us to GI Joe, The Rise of Cobra. I may be a long time Trek nerd, but this is the movie I'm looking forward to. It'll be cheesy and over the top, but that's what it should be. I still remember buying my first GI Joe comic book at the convenience store next to the apartments we lived at. I remember the first GI Joe figure I got (Flash, the laser rifle trooper - and I picked up the 25th anniversary edition, too!). As much as I'm looking forward to the movie, I want to see what toys come out to tie in with the movie.

Yeah, I'm 40, so what? I've got 60+ Stormtroopers waiting to do battle. The Empire VS Cobra!

Just a month and a half until all the fun starts.

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Little River Jer VS The Russ

03.22.2009

That is by far the most fun I've ever had with a $23 program.

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Updated Man Cave!

03.16.2009

Part of my goal of cleaning/updating the house over the past year has been to better organize things. I'm a little anal about knowing where things are, so being organized is important. When I got the storage building in the back yard late last year, it became the oversized closet for most of the stuff that was being stored in the garage. I then found myself able to once again park in the garage!

It's amazing how fast a 16x10 storage building can fill up. I guess I shouldn't be surprised since the garage is supposedly 20x20. I had a collection of Rubbermaid storage closets and shelving units that lined the walls of the garage that found themselves lining the walls of the storage building. At least half the stuff out there I probably don't need - at least 1 storage closet is full of unopened wrestling and superhero figures. But that's what a storage building is for. Storage!

I still keep the treadmill in the garage - it's electric and the storage building out back doesn't have electricity, so it makes sense to keep it in the garage. The riding mower, which I had planned to keep parked in the storage building, is staying in the garage just because it'll be a pain to roll it up into the building. Looking to the future, and since the mower and treadmill take up some wall space, I thought I would go ahead and cover up some available wall space with shelves.

This time, instead of Rubbermaid, I opted for actual metal (by Whirlpool, for some reason). I got 2 short cabinets which are covered by a single top constructed out of some indestructible space-age polymer, along with a taller cabinet. The taller cabinet currently has gaming supplies (like my Dwarven forge booty!). The shorter cabinets are empty. For now. That's why this project has been part of a plan for future expansion.

Maybe it's time for more Dwarven Forge booty?

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Kablammo

03.11.2009

It's been a busy week, as such I'm WAAAAY late posting an update.

I neglected to mention it, but I actually bought the pistol I was looking at and investigating a couple of weeks ago. For my birthday last Wednesday, I decided to be nerdy and celebrate with:40 .40 @ 40 on my 40

Not the most intuitive title, but I'll explain as:
   40 (shots of my)
   .40 (caliber pistol)
    @ 40 (with the target at 40 ft)
    on my 40 (on my 40th birthday)

I would have gone shooting at 4:40 if I had been thinking properly nerdly enough. Oh well.

Here's how my shooting's been going:

I've now been successfully shooting 3 times and have not blown my fool head off. I'm marking that down as a plus!

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Early Birthday Loot

03.03.2009

I have toys. Lots and lots of toys. Video games, wrestling figures, comics, board games. I could have more, in fact I used to have more, but over the years I've tried to cull down what I get and keep to those things that I actually use, or as in the case of 70 Stormtrooper figures, things that look really cool.

In the ResGen days we used to play games like Warhammer and Frag, and it was cool because JD would make the most awesomest maps to play on. Awesomest may not be a proper word, but it really gets across the awesomnisity of the maps. One of the things that got me hooked on Heroquest is the map-tiles. They're just cool.

I've seen different mods for Heroscape tiles to make them more realistic. For the Star Wars Miniatures game, there are sites specializing in paper models and scenery to give it the 3D feel. All of these are cool, and I've tried a couple of them, but I don't really have the time/focus/energy to do these things well, or well enough to play with afterward.

On of the sites that's been around for a while that I've drooled over is Dwarven Forge. They offer prebuilt/molded, hand painted terrain for 28mm games - 28mm is the standard for most of the miniature games I play (D&D, Star Wars, even Heroscape). After playing Robo Rally Saturday I started thinking about our next game to play, and Frag is a front runner. Although Frag comes with paper maps, JD printed a base map on a vinyl printer, then constructed walls and elevated walkways which made the game... awesomelier than ever. Dwarven Forge has a sci-fi set that Frag would work with...

My birthday is coming up, and that would make a really cool present for myself. So I loaded up the online cart and purchased myself some Dwarven Forgeness. Much to my shock, the order I placed on Sunday arrived on Tuesday.

I think we're probably set for the next game, but it's hard to not place another order. And even then I have to make sure I don't get carried away on the Fantasy side of their wares.

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