"How Your Hobby Can Shorten Winter" Topic

On my blog today I offer up my light hearted thoughts and ideas about how the war gaming hobby can serve to shorten the cold Winter season for you. Follow these tips and before you know it, it will be Spring.

So click on the link to my blog to read the rest of the story:

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I hope that this generates a laugh of two for you.

Thanks but at my age time is going fast enough. I need to slow it down, even if it is winter. Not speed it up. Did get some laughs, though.

I agree with Rusty! Time: Sloooooow Doooooown, ya hear!

True that! It is a matter of perspective – when you are five, a year is 20% of your life span – you you are 50, it is 2%!

Frederick, when you are 50, a year is 3% of your likely remaining life. When 65 like me, one year is 5% of your probable remaining years …

Good blog, my preference is for numbers 3, 4, and 5.
I do however agree with slowing down. At 71, I'm seeing days and weeks flash by.

Like Jim, I've kinda started a new project – painting 28mm figures for a fictional late 19th/early 20th century conflict between the British and the Russians over the Princely State of Aooghastan, located somewhere to the east of Eden. But I haven't made as much progress as Jim what with home life and church tasks seeming to interfere, as well as getting laser cataract surgery on my eyes.

But at least the weather is more hospitable here in mid-Mississippi even though we have seen below freezing temps during the days.

Jim

When you have uncurable cancer a year is more like 20% of your remaining life. But there is the hope of making that a lower percentage with treatment.

The key to a short winter is deadlines. Promise to have a pair of armies, a scenario or an article done by April, and you'll be amazed how fast winter speeds by.

As for the overall passage of time, I see it both ways: "new" or "just lately" covers years if not decades by now. But things which cost me opportunities--time-wasting meetings, lost conventions, cancelled instruction--are increasingly resented for the big chunks they take out of my remaining active years. How many years? You'll never know. Everyone likely to send out a notice on my death is already gone.

Good read Jim. Much like you we have the same white cold stuff in Michigan.

I like winter. I have pretty much become a seasonal miniature painter and wargamer September through April. Summers I am outside and much more active and my painting/wargaming activities take a noticeable hit.

I've lived in New England and the Rocky Mountains, but for the last 30 years, I've been in sunny California. I don't miss having to shovel snow at all.