March has been a productive month for some of my goals! However, the weight goals are hard to quantify:
Weight
Target weight loss: 40lbs. Weight lost so far: probably
quite a bit, but I can’t be sure.
When Lent comes around each year, I give up chocolate and
all sweets, Coke and all fizzy drinks, and all takeaways. This year, I’ve done
the same thing, and due to my weight loss goals, also took the opportunity to start
a regular exercise routine, involving walking around the area and using the
outdoor gym in the park near my house. It started out well, with me apparently
losing 3lbs in the first week, and 4lbs in the next. Then, last Wednesday, I
got on my scales and discovered that I’d apparently gained 6lbs.
And, well. No, I hadn’t.
I can’t remember where I discovered this, but I have no
problem believing it: You would need to eat over 2.5* your recommended calorie
intake in a day before you would even gain 1lb. Is that possible? Sure. Have I
done it? In the past, yes. But for me to have done this six times in the space
of a single week and not even realised – that’s far beyond an anomaly;
something’s gone wrong. So, I bought some new, better-quality scales, and found
that I weighed 244lbs – 8lbs less than I thought I’d weighed the previous week.
Obviously, that’s great - but it makes counting the weight I
wanted to lose a bit of a faff, since as the old scales were likely taking
inaccurate readings all along, I don’t know where I started from. I’ve lost
weight though, there’s no doubt about that. So, new goal – My target weight it
15 stone, by which time I will have lost around 40lbs and will certainly be in
a fitter state than I was before.
Board Games
This month: 0. Total so far: 14
I didn’t play any this month. Our friends and family that we
normally play with were tied up in all sorts of things, and while we did get
involved in some of it, none of it involved board games.
Gigs
This month: 2. Total so far: 5
I did a gig with Sam Draisey and the Revolt at Katie
Fitzgeralds on the first weekend in March. I love playing with The Revolt, it’s
a nice easy gig and we’ve all been friends for a long time. We showcased one of
Sam’s new songs (link to the video) which went well, and we were kindly-received
by Rebel and the Banned, the other band on that night and our fans – there was
a strong solidarity with the political nature of our music! I also did the assisted
living centre again, which is always good.
Video Games
This month: 2. Total so far: 6
I managed two video games this month:
Alien Breed: Chapter One on the Xbox 360 was a game I bought
last year in the run up to the Xbox Live servers being shut down for the 360,
on recommendation by Metal Jesus. It was a fun overhead shooter, and it’s nice
to see the familiar contours of the Unreal engine, but it’s not the sort of
experience that stays with you.
Kid Dracula: This was part of the Castlevania collection for
the Switch, and is an odd entry in the series – it plays more like Mega Man
than anything else. I’d come back to it after a couple of years; having reached
the seventh stage almost without trying, I ran into a huge difficulty spike
with some pretty fiddly boss battles. I’ll freely admit to using some Youtube
videos to find out how to do some of it, as I didn’t want to get bogged down,
and quite frankly it would have taken me the rest of the year to divine exactly
what attack patterns would work on which boss. A nice enough game while it
lasted, but I doubt I’ll come back to it.
Models Painted
I finally finished the Votann army I’ve been working on! My
good friend Sam gave me these a while ago, and I’d just got around to painting
them after blasting out Tyranids last year. I painted them in the colour scheme
of the Ymir Conglomerate, because I liked the name (it reminds me of one of my
favourite books, the Wierdstone of Brisingamen,) and apparently they like to
give all their soldiers the best equipment so with little else to go on, I built
the models with what I thought were the best weapons and all the upgrades. Here
are some pictures, to show that I’ve done them – one of the Hearthkin squads
and the two characters at the front are the ones I’ve painted this year.
A great read Matt and so much "am doing!" positivity here.
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