Tomb Kings Ascendent

And thus did the mighty armies of Khemri march forth against the Dwarfs of the Old World.
The puny war machines of the bearded ones were unable to stand against the Light of Death. Despite the bravery of the Dwarfs, none were able to with stand the Casket of Souls. Time and time again misplaced faith in their Will was tested against the might Incantations of Nehekhara and were found to be wanting.

That sums up my Warhammer Fantasy experiences this past week in the Battle of the Bosses campaign. Every single game I played (with one Bretonnia exception) was played against Dwarfs. You would think that with their above-average Leadership, the Casket of Souls would be a bad choice...but not when the entire opposing army can see it. Add in to the equation spring-attacking Skeleton Archers and the Dwarfs, especially their war machines were quickly dispatched because Dwarf players can't seem to be able to understand that they have to move sometimes.
Next time, I'm afraid that the Dwarf players will stock up on anti-magic runes and I'll be hosed. All it takes is to change the Army list to include a Thane as the Standard Bearer with Valaya's Rune and have a Runesmith as the General. This gives them 5 dispel dice with a +2 on each roll. I only have four Incantations (my Banner Power Level 3, "My Will Be Done!" 1-6, Liche Priest 2-12 and the Casket 2-12). With the Rune, this ensures that the Banner never goes off, "My Will be Done!" rarely goes off amd leaving 3 dispel dice for the Casket and the Priest. If he saves two dice for the Casket...game over man! Game Over! But that is 260 points out of 875...but it's still enough to smash an ineffective Prince and Priest/Casket. I can only hope that my new Tomb Scorpion will be an ace in the sand.
Still...rough times are ahead for the warriors of Khemri.

Life Goes On

That's about it. These things happen and I go on. The only thing to do now is to graduate and get a real job. Once I do that I'll be able to get my own place, my own car, have a painting area set up for my Games Workshop stuff complete with a table that has my completeed armies in action....
It's definitely time to move forward in my life. I'm sick of being stuck where I am.

Depressed

You know what sucks? Not getting a promotion. It's the first time I've not gotten a job that I've wanted in my entire life, the worst part about it is that I can't even talk to Marie about it because she is the one that got the job instead of me. That isn't fair, because there was two positions and I didn't really lose to her but to the other person. I still can't talk to her about it because she had seconds thoughts about applying in the first place because she didn't want me to feel bad about not getting if she did. Well...now it's actually happened and everytime I've tried to talk to her about how I feel, she goes on about how crappy she feels and then before I can get my feelings off my chest I have to console her. Which leaves us both feeling like crap.

Christmas Time

As of right now, I have 4,000 dollars to my name. I've bought presents for my brothers and myself. That's right, I'm buying presents for myself. You see, this year (because my little brother has no money and is going through college and my parents don't want him to feel bad because he can only afford tiny gifts compared to the rest of us) we have decided that instead of buying lots of presents for everyone, each person will buy each other only a single gift. And because I want the Wii and no one is willing to wait in any kind of line for anything apparently...thus blowing the one chance I've had to get a Wii for Christmas, I will therefore be getting a Tau Army Box and some other crap. Do I sound materialistic? Good, because I am. We live in a country that is blessed with wealth that the majority of people in the world can only hope to imagine...and rather then be miserly with it, we should embrace it and give heartily to each other. It wouold be better if we could give heartily to the people who really need it...but that does not have the immediate gratification of seeing your loved ones smile on Christmas morning at all the present they have recieved. But that's just me.
What does all this have to do with me having $4,000 to my name? Well...I still need to pay enxt years tuition and buy presents for my parents and Marie...and I'll be damned if I give either of them just one dinky present. End result is Andrew = broke.
That's all, just complaining that I will soon be poor.

Merry Christmas everyone!

One Year Later

Has it been an entire year since I last posted...
As a general update myself and Marie are doing just fine. Our parents met for dinner about a week ago and it went extremely well...a little too well says her. Myself? It sounds petty but I'm happy that our parents are already getting along better then they ever will with K's parents. Looks like Andrew is starting to even up the score!
Wonderland is doing well, I'm confident that Mr. BB is going to make me one of his Areas for next year, since he nodding in my direction when when a discussion was happening about who will do manager training...actual training and not just 'This is what is new...pick it up as you go along." To be fair what he said was is that the people who have been here a long time will do the training, . Hopeful thinking? Maybe...but BB could do a lot worse. Out of the four areas, realistically there is only three picks...and I don't think BB appreciates Managers who are too close with their underlings.
I had a dream about WoW last night. It was rather cartoony but essentially captured the feel of a Warrior starting anew...which I will be if I ever start playing again.
Warhammer 40k is proceeding nicely...the Orks are getting some new attention and my painting skills have increased dramatically. Just placing the Kommandos side by side with my Slugga Boyz shows the extreme difference. Snipa Sqwads for da win!

In something else...just bought an artefact vial...hopefully it'll save me a bunch of money in the long run and Gods I hate New Hope but it's mostly my laziness that screwed me over.
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More Marie

Anyone who read this must be goaning right now. 'More Marie"? what type of stupid title is that? Well I'll tell you what type of title it is...the title of someone who is falling hopelessly in love, that's what. If none of you like that then I say 'pft' to you.
All is well is Marie world, we're going camping and everything...which is really fast moving on our part but it would seem like we can't get enough of each other. Which worries me slightly...that we are going too fast and even that as we are become closer in a physical sense *cough, cough* we are growing apart emotionally. But I always worry at such things. Anyways Marie seems to think everything is fine so I guess it's all good.
As a side note: G has went through the same thing I just did...put it was a lot more messier for him then it was for me.

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Marie

You know what's great? Actually finding someone who returns any feelings you have for them. Once I thought the greatest thing was dating someone who's more into you then you are into them, but I was wrong.
When I first met Marie the chemistry was great, we got along well and I'm not going to get into the amount of flirting that we did, but then I found out she had a boyfriend. Did that stop me? Not at all...we talked, enjoyed ourselves and had some more 'Serious Discussions' after which she realized that her oold boyfriend (yes I said old, as in ex-, boyfriend) wasn't treating her how she deserved to be treated. To make a long story short, she's going to break up with him officially today...if he shows up and what she said last night at Tim Horton's was that she couldn't wait until she coudl start dating me. She was afraid that if she started dating me around the middle of September(!) I would think she's moving too fast and not over him yet. She can start dating me whenever she wants and...we kissed last night. She said she'll never be the one to make the first but she won't make me be a mind-reader either and she's honest about that because she sends fairly clear body language so it's all good. Marie has said she doesn't kiss on the first date only when the moment feels right. For her, it was the right moment. Dancing outside of Tim Horton's to the music on her car radio was...cheesy but...according to her "the best night she has ever had."
I hope I don't mess this up.

Peace all,