Gathering Dust

Pretty much everything is...

Quote of the day:

"Gentlemen of France, would you care to fire first?!" - Lord Charles Hay (General, Guards Division - Battle of Fontenoy)

... how quaintly British! *stifles silly giggle*

Anyway, still about, just busy... with work, writing (which I'm now taking seriously... I have a plan and everything.. *urgh*), anime and sporadic gaming. I bloody well geeked out past couple days... Polybius' the Histories... uh-huh... Livy's Ab Urbe Condita Libri... uh... huh...

Still, Imperator is... sort of... starting to take shape. All major battles conceptualised and now need some sort of expansion. Think I'll put the opening chapter up at some point, though it needs some heavy editing (wrote the second quarter well before everything else, while I was gallivanting off writing up stab and clobber scenes, so it looks as though it's repeating itself... and how am I supposed to make Lucius less of a wuss?!)

On a lighter note... Moyashimon Returns!

Heehee!!

Bubi will be less silly next time... probably...

Started at last...

Quote of the day - "This isn't Hyde Park Corner, the war's over there!" - whatever Kenneth More's character was in the Longest Day.

Not sure why I waited so long to get started on it, but I finally got the technical glitch sorted out and at last...(!) I'm playing Medieval 2: Total War... and going around kicking people's arses with Teutonic/Gothic Knights... woohoo for the Heilige Romisches Reich! *ahem*

After playing so much Rome and Napoleon, it's taking a wee bit of getting used to. Still, me after about a dozen turns (having taken Hamburg, Florence, Magdeburg and Stettin and marching on Bern): I can replenish mercenaries in any settlement?! '= WIN'!! *ahem*

Though why are the Danish characters speaking with a Russian accent?! Ah well, anyway... *eyes the Milanese territories*

:) Bubi

This... project...

Yeah, so... I'm a tad too interested in the Second Punic War right now, I think...

Ah well... expect a few more short sketches from Imperator, and my silly take on 'Hannibal vs Scipio'. Still, seriously, I wonder why no-one bothered with Polybius interviewing Laelius as a framing device?

*shrugs*

Bubi

Kirtha

Well... here's a sketch, but a bit of a short one. Was planning to put a hell of a lot more into it but as with all things with me involved, so easily distracted, and a post Zama spiel turned to be a loooooooooooong piece...

Anyway, here's Gaius getting a little peeved...

Kirtha

Of anime, writing & working...

Quote of the day - "It'd be brilliant. It would have floats and balloons and everything. Be like gay pride... with tanks!" Sandi Toksvig

Dunno why, just felt like it. Popped into my head this morning for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

Anyway... haven't been here in... bugger, nine months-ish...

Am I going to make this regular? Probably not. Am I going to put a sketch on here? From the Imperator saga... thing-y, probably... tomorrow... if I bloody well remember. Just thought of the Battle of Kirtha. Rather unimaginative, but the narrative is amusing (well, to me it is at least).

*sigh*

No money... anyone got a hundred grand kicking about? No? My travailles in logistics continue... but to lighten my moods, at least Hyouka and Jormungand entertain me thoroughly.

How can one not love Koko?!

Oh 'teh lulz'... promptly before selling a couple million quid's worth of weaponry.

Anyway, Bubi is off to choose... something... now... for... something else...

Good afternoon...

Regularity...

I finally have nothing to do... sort of.

Therefore, scribble time... too much on paper, and it's all a couple hours away by train. Rubbish...

Hopefully, I'll be able to get a few sketches up each month and get round to finishing Imperator. Perhaps I'll put up Zama at some point.

Bah...

Perpetually tired...

Y'know, I really should stop going to sleep to the BBC World Service... not healthy.

Still not enough time in the day to get everything that I want done. I need to write up, I need to bioassay, I need to distill, I need to column, I need to... oh bollocks to this, I'm going to sleep. *hrk*

I need a new story idea to keep me amused. *sigh* I really should develop that Emperor in Germany idea more. Time for yet more history research that I claim never to do...