Stop. Baby time.

As most of you know, I'm the father of a nine-month old baby, Kaliq.

His mother and I split up due to super unfortunate circumstances which I won't delve into here. She's been caring for him for the last nine months. However, she has just started nursing school. Full on nursing school. She's in school 40 hours a week and still finds a way to work 24 hours a week. Add homework on top of all that and she has very little time for baby Kaliq.

Enter Daddy Reynor. Up until now I've been spending two days a week with baby. Now he is over at my house almost every other night. His mom is so busy she can't even pick him up from his grandmother's house after she is done studying.

Personally, I love it. I love being able to spend quality time with my son. I also hope I am alleviating some of his mommy separation anxiety. Meanwhile, I'm my bit for the allure of all womanity by studying at Gene Juarez Academy. Unfortunately, all this good stuff means less time at the Battle Bunker and less time at Adult Swim.

So I'm narrowing down my projects (hence Sir Gil's inheritance of my Rohan WoTR army). And I'm doing a lot of hobbying at home during nap time. I'm also thinking about focusing on my Specialist Games projects a little more. Instead of lusting after a 200-man Empire army, maybe I'll make a colorful Marienberg Mordheim Warband? Instead of starting a super duper Imperial Guard army, maybe I'll get a command box of Catachans and make a core force for Necromunda. Heck, maybe I'll even focus on some of the nifty Warhammer Skirmish scenarios that the big GW unleashed a few years back (ancient history to some of you kiddies out there)

Oh yeah. And I may just go against the Aydult Suhwim grain and do some small force painting for the dreaded iHate (TM) Warhammer 40,000.

And then there are my ever-luvin' blue-eyed Ogres. (They never shoulda signed up for that trip inta space with Reed). I've got a few and could get a few more :D. They are minimum painting time to be sure. Read more later on.

In any case, time is tighter than ever. Yet my passion for the hobby is no less than it has been. It just means smaller doses and maybe less time chilling with all youse guys.

So I'll continue posting my brilliant ideas on my bloggy and hope that some of you kids out there would welcome the chance to play with me (Pit Fighter anyone?) I'll also try to seduce my GW virgin friends into said games.

A few guidelines I'm looking for in GW game funness:

- Games you can play in an hour or so. Blood Bowl definitely doesn't fit this category unless we go to the Chess clock style of play (Jason has one).
- Inquisitor. I think this game is actually designed to be played in one-hour chunks. The narrative, non-competitive aspect of it also gives me braingrins.
- Mordheim. This is the queen of quick-play games. And my dwarf warband is ready for some serious warpstone delving. True, one-off games of this fabulous mini-Fantasy game are not that exciting (campaigns are its heart).
- Lord of the Rings. Remember that Tabletop Strategy Game that everyone used to play before WoTR came out? You know the one you can play with a couple dozen models real fast-like? That could be fun, too.

Good thing we're all waaay into Blood Bowl at the moment. There's also talk of Necromunda. Brian is busting out some super duper Inquisitor terrain (and I'm recruiting RPG lovers to join the fray -- guys who never play GW games). So there are promises of smaller games ahead -- stuff I can squeeze into a short evening after school. Hopefully you guys will be willing to throw down for some of these games.