The Man with No Time

This past weekend I made my way down to London for SmogCon V, the latest incarnation of Europe's biggest and best Warmachine convention. My first visit was last year, and I had such a great time that I just had to go back. Spoiler alert: I'll be heading back next year too. Rather than giving a blow-by-blow of all of my games, I thought I'd give an overview of what I did, where I spent most of my time, and my results. Then I'll do a separate photodump post of the best snaps that I managed to take. A blow-by-blow might follow at a later date if I can be bothered (and have the time).

It's early February, which can mean only one thing for Wargamers in the USA - it's Templecon time! Sadly, being in the UK, (now) busy with a full time job, and with lots of my holiday allocation for the year already taken, I find myself once more unable to attend. (One year I'd love to go to an American gaming convention, but that's a discussion for another day.) As is becoming traditional, Privateer Press chose Templecon for the start of year, state of the union keynote presentation. In it they detail all (or certainly a great number) of the projects coming out in the upcoming year, and tease ahead for projects that they're working on. Last year they announced the new Convergence of Cyriss faction being released as part of Warmachine's 10 year anniversary. What was going to be the big highlight on 2014? Luckily for those of us not actually at Templecon, there were plenty of people live-tweeting the keynote. Not only that, but Privateer Press live-...

Part 3 in my series on how I fritter away my time will focus on the hobbies that make me a self-confessed geek (and proud of it). It's time to talk about wargaming and RPGs.

Welcome to my blog! Let me introduce myself. My name's David, I'm 24, and I'm a hobby-holic. I have far too many of them for the amount of time that I have. In fact I frequently hear the phrase "how do you find time to do all of that?" What's that old saying? If you want something done, give it to a busy person to do? That's me all over. I'm currently at the University of St Andrews, studying (hah!) for my PhD in astronomy; specifically, in the art of planet hunting. I'm a member of the WASP consortium, which is one of the biggest transiting planet searches around, and has members from universities around the UK. So far our tally of planets is up to 82, but it's increasing all of the time. I mostly enjoy my work. Life every job, and make no mistake, it is a full-time job (albeit one with a great deal more flexibility than most others), it has its ups and its downs. Around that job I have many, many hobbies, hence the name of the b...