Hey all, Sam and David here.
Hello and welcome back to another weekly check-in post. Each week we do this post to help ourselves keep track of everything we’ve done in the past week. That’s everything we read and watch and write and paint and craft and do. Some weeks we do more than other weeks, but it’s still always nice to have a place where we can keep track of everything.
This is also a place where you can share the cool things you’ve been up to as well, so let us know in the comments. Let’s celebrate our daily or weekly or monthly achievements with each other.
Let’s get started.
Sam
Reading: Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto, Maybe Today by S.K. Williams, Winter Roses After Fall by Robert M Drake and R.H. Sin, This Day is Dark by R.H. Sin.
In the past few days I finished a few books, and yes, three of them are poetry. Now, I don’t think I’m going to do a review for each collection of poetry, but I will say that each had poems that affected me and resonated with me, so I found these books (at Target) at the right time. Sometimes I do get into the mood to read poetry, but after years in school of having to parse through the meanings of every line, every rhyme, every stanza…I just have no desire to go anywhere near a review for poetry. I just want to read them and let the feel of them settle into me and let that be it. I do have ratings for them, but that’s it (they were 4 and 4.5 star reads).
In progress reads include a dual read of The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, which I am reading while also listening to the audiobook. It’s going to be slower going on this one, because I’m only reading/listening on Friday-Sunday, when I get off work a couple hours before David. I go out to the car and open up Audible, and open my book. It’s basically 2-3 chapters each time I sit down. I’m on page 124 currently.
My bedside book right now is Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian, so it’s the book I pick up when I want to read for like 30 minutes before going to bed, so again, not a lot of progress so far, but I am enjoying it.
And my current take to work book is Duel with the Vampire Lord by Elise Kova. As you can see, I’m actively working on tackling my Spooky Season TBR. I do want to complete some of my NetGalley September reads and get them reviewed too, but right now I’m just reading books with no expectation to review them just yet. Obviously I’ll probably review all of them eventually.
Watching: I finished watching a really cool new release and really enjoyed it, and watched all the current episodes of another new release, as well as some re-watches of some movies and shows and stuff that I enjoy…but I’m not naming any of them until the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike is over. Both groups are encouraging us to keep watching the movies and shows because that shows that there is a demand for the product, so I will keep watching for now. But if they call for a strike on watching things on streaming services, I’ll follow that too.
But, when it’s all settled and over, I’ll have a big watching recap for y’all.
Writing: I have done a little bit of writing, not much overall, but I have put at least a few paragraphs down onto paper. I have thought a lot about my stories and the characters, but the ideas and words are still stuck in my head. They’ll come out when they’re ready. For the moment they’re still brewing.
Other: We went to the local Putt-Putt Golf/Ice Cream place and tried some of their fall treats. I got an Apple Snickers flurry, and David got a Caramel Apple Pie flurry. We also played a round of putt-putt while we were there. And we went to a nearby Goodwill and found this awesome Halloween tree, so it came home with us to join our fall decorations, which we’re still in the process of putting up around the house.
David
Painting: Finally finished painting and basing the Ork Kommandos Kill Team. It was fun to paint and I am looking forward to painting a lot more Warhammer over the coming months. I am debating whether or not I am going to sell some of the painted figures though. I know a lot of people would pay a good amount for painted figures but I put so much work into them that it is hard to come up with a fair price on them.
I started painting a few of the Saurian Lizardmen. I have some foot soldiers that came from Warhammer, and some mounted soldiers that are from Warhammer 40k. I cant be one hundred percent sure but I am pretty sure that’s where each is from. I like the shades of blue I am using with red for their spikey protrusions. Gold and Iron for the weapons, and I am using a yellow for the boney shields they are using as well. I am going to go with various shades of green for the dinosaur mounts the one set is using.
Watching: I am still watching DBZ for now and have made it to the part where Gohan has taken over the fight with Perfect Cell. Its about here that my memories of the series start to get a little hazy, but it is really nice to have something playing in the background while I am doing other stuff.
Printing: I am setting up some coins to print again since we are going to Cincinnati Comic Book Expo soon and I like to pass these coins out with our business cards. It gives people an idea of some of the things I can make or print for them to really immerse themselves into their tabletop games. I think I am going to print some elvish coinage this time but I will need to do some test prints first before anything else.
Other: I am trying out crochet for the first time and I am doing so using Woobles. So far the step by step instructions have made it super easy to follow. I don’t know if I will be adding crochet to my list of crafting skills anytime soon but we will see how much fun I have with it first. Here is my first attempt so far.
All right, well that is all from us for today. Thank you so much for stopping by, and we’ll be back soon with more geeky content.
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