Rant: highway drivers and figure case disaster

One of my biggest peeves about driving is those drivers who see a police cruiser on the side of the highway and immediately slow down. OK, so if you can see him, he can see you and it's too damned late. And if the cop is out of his cruiser and already has someone pulled over, he doesn't give a damn that you're driving 20km over the limit as you go by. So why bother slowing down at all? Granted, you need to change lanes away from the pulled over vehicles but in most cases, slowing down does nothing other than to piss me off.

How does this relate to gaming? This morning, I experienced just such an occurrence. In this case, the moron driver didn't just take his foot off of the accelerator or tap the brakes. This was a full on brake, changing from 100km/hr to 40 km/hr in an instant. I was three cars back but the accordion effect of the following cars forced me to brake hard. Unfortunately, I had two cases of figures on the back floor and result was, I suppose, inevitable. For completeness' sake, I should've removed the cases yesterday but forgot. And they were securely placed on the floor in metal cases with magnetic bases on the figures; enough to avoid slippage/damage in normal braking situations. The incident this morning was far more than normal...sigh.

The result is below. I haven't delved into the mess to see the damage.

Being stuck in a rut

Phil Wright - I won't lie, it has been a very, very long time since I painted anything meaningful (My first section of Early War Poles to be exact back during the summer months).

I've always liked to compare my painting habits to that of a Russian hockey player in the NHL.  For the most part, they can either be fantastic, or just downright lazy and terrible.

The mercurial nature of my painting habits is nothing new, everyone knows that I will go on a mad painting/sculpting spree that normally lasts three weeks to a month and a half, then nothing for the next 6+ months.

It's a rather frustrating problem to have as the lead slowly piles up over the time in which I don't paint, leaving me with "projects" that I rediscover years after buying them and leaving me to scratch my head wondering when exactly I procured the models. (Malifaux, Infinity and Bushido just to name a few)

So, I ask you, the wonderful readership of this blog, how do you personally find the motivation to paint on a regular basis, or are yourselves afflicted as well by the "Russian hockey player" syndrome?