I'm not dead, but my cable modem is

I apologize for the lack of posts of late, but as I have alluded to previously, I'm having Internet connectivity issues at the moment.  Specifically, my cable modem is completely jacked and I only have a connection briefly and intermittently as it spontaneously resets itself (according to my isp it reset 50 times in a 12 hour period).  Woo hoo good times. 

My new hardware should be here later today or tomorrow, though, so I'll be up and running again soon.

In other news, I got to bust out my empire forces for my first game of WFB since 1997 against Hoagy this past weekend.  I had a blast in spite of the forces of fate conspiring against me.  I did learn some valuable lessons though

1. Pistoleers are the shit
2. That Tomb Kings spell that gives you extra shooting or close combat attacks is crazy annoying
3. Always give expensive wizards some type of ward save
4. Never trust probabilities (I'll be posting a brief article about this on the HOP later this week)

To check out a brief battle report and see more pictures of partially painted minis from the event (like the above) check out Hoagy's blog When Cannons Fade and then go listen to some Bolt Thrower.

Speaking of metal, my new band, Crusader,  is playing its first show tonight for free at the Exit in Chicago at 10:00 if you're in the area.

Where in the World is Carmen---- Erm I mean Dethtron?

Been absent from the blogosphere for a couple days longer than I anticipated and I failed to get a project mayhem post up.  Well there are a lot of reasons for that.  Want to see some victim statements?

FAQ to the Future

Time to jump in your Delorian and get that puppy up to 88.8 mph as fast as you can, the Blood Angels and Tyranids FAQs came out today. Oh wait, everyone with a blog has already talked about this ad nauseum- fuck. Looks like everybody beat me to the punch because I had the most pointless final* ever to study for. I'll cut right to the chase and just throw both of my middle fingers up in the air and shout a big "I told you so" to the members of the gaming community responsible for such Friday Night Internet Fights as the great Mawloc kerfuffle of 2010 and the 2nd annual Demolisher Cannon fest among others. So you're all a bunch of idiots and need to learn the rules better and spot obvious designer oversights. RAI FTW bitches!

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* So Econ 403 where 70% of your grade is determined by a series of online quizzes that can be taken an unlimited number of times. Honestly, if I showed up and wrote my name on the final and had drawn a couple of graphs I would have finished the class with a B. Yet people still complained that the class was hard. A course that didn't even scratch the surface of a subject that undergraduate courses look at in detail is hard? Holy shit. So anyway, I think I destroyed that test and am looking forward to my second 100% score in a class as a graduate student. Way to raise the bar on graduate education Roosevelt University.

Lauby's Blood Angels vs. my IG

This weekend has been absolute hell. I'm working on a group project for Marketing which means- you guessed it- I wound up doing most of the work. I just waited most of the day for one of my group members to turn in her portion of our paper only to basically have to rewrite everything that she sent me, because it was god awful. Here's all that I learned from this experience: group work still sucks and Febuuary is not a month*. In other "fuck my life news" I also managed to crack a cymbal in practice on saturday. In damn near 20 years of playing drums, that's only the second time that has ever happened...

But anyways, Thursday night I got a chance to nearly have my ass handed to me in the most painfully slow game I think I've played in quite some time. I squeaked out a kill point victory against impossible odds when the game ended on turn 5, right before I would have most likely been tabled. Yay random game length. Anyways, you can check out a battle report I wrote up for it over here.

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*The first time I came across this in my editing, I thought that my group member had made a simple typo. By the 3rd and 4th instance, I was considerably less sure that this was, in fact, a typo.

Going to the Vet

Gotta take my dog to the vet, so may not have time for Friday Night Internet Fight, but will try and get it up today or tomorrow. Looks like Loki might have an abcessed tooth, but is still in high spirits, see above picture.