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Blog Thread 5: A New Beginning

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LeeC:
So I like to put together and paint miniatures and haven't done it in a long time. I decided to get back on track and build some space marines from the Horus Heresy game. After putting some together I felt like the torsos and legs were out of proportion so badly that I couldn't stick on their accessories (knives, ammo pouches, grenades, etc) with out really cluttering up the model and was largely unhappy with them. Then I saw that people were getting some "true scale" torso and legs from this company called Tortuga Bay, so I bought some and I put them together and they look really snazzy and I can't wait to prime them so I can paint them (once the temperature outside is warm enough). I was getting excited and was building the army in my head, looking up other models and what bodies from TB I could get them. And then I saw they were in Ukraine and my order was one of the last ones before the Russian invasion.
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They are effectively shut down as they had to evacuate themselves and their families because their city was under siege. This was rather harrowing to find out, and although I do not know them personally, I do feel connected to them in a way. Apparently you can keep up with them on their journey through these tough times on instagram. So I signed up for instagram last night and was going through their recent posts. Now I've been seeing a lot of footage on reddit of the invasion and its really strange to see unedited videos of what is unarguably people being killed. I mean I remember seeing the Afghan and Iraqi invasions on TV, but those were usually journalists filming from afar or edited footage sent from the military, but seeing these up close and personal videos and watching TB's evacuation with jets blowing up the city just blows my mind. It made me understand the level of social technology we have now on a new level. And then instagram started suggesting friends to me. Which was fine, I signed up with my google account and it was suggesting facebook friends from when I had facebook years ago. But then it suggested people I met long after I left facebook. Long after I moved up the coast. In fact it was suggesting my 3 neighbors I am friendly with as instagram friends. Now I am rather tempted to delete the account.

Is it cold in here?:
I'm getting money for my exercise program. It turns out that not only will people pay you to take walks outside, they'll even lend you their dogs!

LeeC:
Recently we found Witch's eggs in the front yard by the Pine tree.

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Its a fungus that eventually sprouts and becomes smelly to attract flies to help spread its spores. I convinced my 2 daughters (3 and 4 yo) that they are real witch's eggs. That a witch laid them in hiding and would come back for them when they were ready. We kept checking on them before or after coming home from school until they all eventually disappeared. I told them not to touch them since the witch may come back looking for them and that if you harm a witch's egg, they'll come after you.. They were very careful around them. Well fast forward a couple of weeks after they disappeared. I had the girls kicking mushrooms in the front yard and my eldest daughter saw one and kicked it, thinking it was a mushroom and not a witch's egg. I asked her if it was a witch s egg, she said no (a lie). I said, "Okay, but if it was the witch will come after you." She again said it wasn't a witch's egg. So we went for a walk down our familiar street. She then started holding my hand and said she was scared. I asked her why and she just shook her head. I asked her what she was afraid of. She said the witch. I asked her again if it really was a witch's egg and she said it was. I told her that she should always come and tell me the truth so I could help and protect her. So I told her I knew how to protect her and we should go home so I could perform a witch protection ritual on her. So the three of us went to our back porch. My youngest sat and watched us. I had my eldest stand with her eyes close. I got some salt and made a circle around her (something I saw on hocus pocus and I knew she'd recognize) and made her make the sign of the cross a few times and turn around (something from Pirates of the Caribbean and Muppet treasure island, again something she'd remember seeing). After that I told her to open her eyes and she was now fine and the witch would leave her alone and not know she broke the egg. She asked me not to tell mommy so I said okay. The whole thing was cute. I later did tell my wife and while she thought it was cute, she is the more superstitious of the two of us and asked me to be careful about that kind of thing.

Is it cold in here?:
25th anniversary today.

Farideh:
Congratulations!

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