WIP Wednesday – Aug 23

Hey all, Sam and David back again today.

Sorry for the wonky posting schedule the past week or so. I’ve felt pretty out of sorts, just run down from the schedule shifts after coming back from Gen Con, and the long hours at work plus the weather…it has left me feeling pretty drained overall. Anyway, we’re going to try and get back on the proper schedule, but we’ll see what happens.

Welcome back to WIP Wednesday, the weekly series where David and I do a check in and discuss everything we’ve been doing over the past week. This includes what we’ve been reading, writing, watching, playing, making, and doing. It’s a lot to get through, but it also helps us keep track of everything that we seem to do week by week, because otherwise the days, weeks, and months have a tendency to blur together.

But that’s not all…we’d love to hear about what you’ve been up to as well! Chat with us in the comments and tell us something cool you’ve been up to lately, whether that’s something “geeky” or not.

All right, let’s jump into the post.

Sam

Reading: Wisdom Check by Katherine McIntyre, The City of Dusk by Tara Sim, The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston.

It was sort of a slow reading week. I didn’t have a whole lot of time to read while at work (some days/weeks I get lucky, but others it’s busy, busy, busy), but I still feel like three books for the week isn’t the worst number. And I’ll try and get reviews up pretty soon.

The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu, Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim, Forged by Magic by Jenna Wolfhart, and The Midnight Kingdom by Tara Sim are on my current and soon-to-be read list.

I’m sort of having difficulties right now, mostly thanks to the weather. It has been extremely hot the past few days and I’m unfortunately having to deal with migraines every day, which is making it difficult to do the things that I want to do. But I’m trying to push forward with some reading and such, especially once my migraine medicine kicks in.

Watching: Still nothing here, although there’s plenty I’ve been watching, and more still that I’m counting down to being able to watch.

Writing: Sadly, I have not gotten much done on the writing front over the past week. I need to buckle down and focus on it a bit more. I’d really love to get my edits done for my Project Death books before NaNoWriMo comes around. I also need to actually put together my playlists for my potential NaNo projects so those are ready before November. I can’t really write to silence, so I need to figure out my tunes that match the characters, plot, and vibe of my stories. Hopefully I’ll have a better update next week.

Other: We did some board game playing this week, playing Tanto Cuore and the Back to the Future board game. That Back to the Future game is not easy to play…well, it’s easy to play, but not easy to win. And it says it’s a 2-4 player game, but I think you only have a chance to win if you’re playing with 4 people, which we were thanks to a board game night with our friends Winter and Tundra.

I also finished my first playthrough of Stray Gods on my Switch…although I definitely need to play a few more times because I want to try different options and make different decisions…and romance different characters.

And I just got my Woobles bundle in the mail…so I’m going to try to learn how to crochet. I’ve been seeing these kits on my social media timelines for too long, and I’m really curious about them. And who knows, if I get the hang of crochet and I like it, then maybe I could start making scarves or mittens or hats or something. I don’t know.

Oh, and I guess this counts as an other. Sure. We finally managed to get over to our local Pizza Hut for the lunch buffet. It’s been a while since either of us has been able to go eat-in for a pizza, breadstick, and salad buffet. It was really nice. I’m sure we’ll be back again at some point.

David

Painting: Painting has been most of the past week for me. I have painted more of the Oathsworn figures and have painted almost half of the twenty or so Tyranid Termagants from the Warhammer 40k board game.

So the Oathsworn figure there, is actually an elemental companion that the Hunter can bring forth to help in combat apperantly I wanted to have a few different colors on the figure as if different aspects of the deepwood.

The oni figures are from Forbidden Fortress, a game that can stand alone or be used in connection to the original western themed Shadows of Brimstone. We have the Viking themed version of this game series I will be painting figures for soon enough.

The Tyranid Termagants I got from a Warhammer 40k board game, it seems like it mostly a simplified rules of 40k meant to serve as an introduction to the full game. I wasn’t about to pass up getting some good figures for a decent price. It also gave me a nice Ultramarine figure so I am not going to complain.

Watching: I am still taking a break from One Piece and watching Dragonball Z. I am literally on the episode right after Goku reveals the Super Saiyan form during his fight with Frieza. I never understood how 5 minutes until the planet explodes takes so many episodes. I think I will stop the rewatch after the Nameks are given a new home which will be just before the next arc begins.

So one thing I found out that I did not realize though since last week was that Laura Bailey also did Dende’s voice not just young Trunks. Also that Christopher Sabat ended up playing so many voices in this series. He even did the voice of Mr. Turtle which makes me super happy since he is another one of the characters I have always loved in this series as well.

Also as a little side not here I cant wait to try out the WOOBLES, they are cute and seems like they make it easy to grasp a new hobby. I think me and Sam will enjoy them a lot.

Well, that is all from us for today. Thank you so much for stopping by, and please let us know what you’ve been up to in the comments. We’ll be back soon with more geeky content.