"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley" by Robert Burns

Merlin in Cornwall...

 Well...long silence. Then a long silence followed by an announcement and another silence.

Where to start...

When I was last posting, I lived in the USA, was a contract wildland fire fighter for the NPS and had a weekly newsletter published called This Week in Wargaming. I also painted miniatures for a very small client base and had four painters who painted stuff for me...yup crazy. I played at least 26 miniature games and 52 boardgames a year. Had a property that rented out to studios for catalogs, film and television commercials...

All of that is changed...somewhat. A lot. Actually.

My kids are launched and successful <brag>
I retired from wildland fires <stupid decision>
Tried to volunteer for the UK forest service <they didn't know what to think that>.
Married a wonderful Irish woman.
Moved my dogs and my boots and some of my stuff to the UK.
Stopped painting for others <the prices fell out of the bottom of that!>
Got hired by a company to handle security, logistics and operations for the BoD.
Got convinced to run games as Team Building for Companies.
Work for StartPlayingGames.com as a contract game master (the price on that has fallen too but I persevere...it's fun.).
Hike almost every day with my three dogs.
Travel a lot.

Two of some of my favorite trips this year...

Why am I telling you this? I received a number of emails from former fans asking for updates...so here you go...

An Update:

What did I do last month:
Drove almost 4000 miles around the USA visiting friends, clients and family.
Attended two conventions in the USA
Ran 30 sessions of Paid Games for SPG (should have been more than that but life intervened):

• Out of the Abyss Campaign (two different campaigns)
• Lankhmar
• Cy_Borg One Shots
• Baldur's Gate Descent into Avernus Campaign
• Piracy in D&D (Two different Campaigns)
• Shadowdark One Shots
• DCC Halloween Horror One Shot
• Hoard of the Dragon Queen Campaign
• Faster, Purple Worm! One Shots
• Eye of the Night (two different Campaigns)

Some of my Games...please excuse the AI art...still looking for live artists...

Re-Started painting:

•     Old Glory Trojan War Skimishers
•     Assasins Creed
•     Rerouni Kenshin & Test of Honour Samurai
•     Ortega Clan from Malifaux
•     D&D Monks & an adventurer (carrying way too much stuff)
•     Cyberpunk Red Arasaka Starter Set
•     Brigade Games WW2 Germans (my last contract)

My finished Ortegas

Contract Germans for Brigade...

a close up...

The goals is to post weekly...start adding photographs...and I may also add some writing that is loosely based on one or two of my regular games with friends...

Let me know what sound's good to you.