I've scrapped my old blog and decided to start over. My old blog was bad I feel bad for forcing you to read through it. I would apologize but writing this blog is somewhat difficult for me. I often sit down to get something put down and start to draw a blank. I think this is the result of far, far too much inundation in the realms of fantasy and etcetera. My tolerance for writing nonfiction has almost vanished. To bring you, my comrades, the truth you so rightly deserve I shall endeavor to update this blog once every night with a tidbit of information or opinion. Hopefully a great deal of it will be business related. I've recently collected some great ideas on services I can offer through my website, and maybe a product or two that I can leverage.

More on the future later. First I want to talk about a recent obsession. A long time ago I began an interest in the world of Warhammer 40,000. I enjoyed the theme of the universe-setting a great deal. I imagined it a sort of science fantasy. 40,000 years into the future humanity has spread out amongst the galaxy. Technology has progressed, been lost, and reclaimed again. Magic exists, in the forces of a malevolent alternate dimension. I started in the middle of a novel called "His Last Command" by Dan Abnett. I knew nothing of the characters, I knew very little of the setting aside from the little blurb on the first page of every Black Library produced book. What caught my interest was the grim setting, the aesthetic of following along with a group of commandos in a World War 2 style army set against the backdrop of facing down lunatics armed with dark sorceries and forbidden technology. This interest blossomed into love as I started the series from the beginning, and expanded my reading list into Space Marine novels. 

Later I would learn that the setting is merely lore, the background for a Wargame based around tiny plastic army men. I found that interesting enough, but for some reason it never caught my attention enough to warrant my own involvement. I was always happy to discuss the setting online but somehow got switched off whenever someone came in to bring up some small detail regarding what unit could do what and how some other unit it would have destroyed it and that's totally fake in the story. However, with my decision to begin building a business partially upon the foundation of Warhammer, I decided to begin investigating the actual game itself. I thought that a rounder knowledge would enable me to speak more fluently about the product I one day intend to sell.

For those who don't know, to play the Warhammer miniatures game you purchase plastic(or metal) figures from Games Workshop. These figures are 25mm in size at the base. Here's a picture with a reference. Here's a close up. These figures come unpainted, and as you can see for being so tiny they're really quite detailed. (Forgive my poor paint job.) People collect and paint these miniatures in the hundreds. Not only do they come in tiny plastic men, of twenty varieties, but they also include tanks, aircraft, and various weapons to customize your figures! On top of THAT there are multiple different armies that the publisher releases rules and miniatures for, including space orcs and two types of space elves. There is a rather immense community built up around the hobby, with advice on everything from how to paint, to cobbling together your own unique creations to field against your friends.

I'm not ashamed to say I've been very quickly pulled in. The possibilities offered here are many and varied, and I hope to take advantage of them.