Centro in San Luis Potosi Mexico

Today I had a little time off because the plant that I've been working at had the power off and was closed.  It's unfortunate considering my work made sure that the plant was open on Sunday before they sent me, but it looks like the local plant had different plans than there corporate office did.  It's not the first time that happened.  They walk a different walk over here in Mexico.

So me and a guy that was down here from my customers corporate office desided to make a trip to "Centro", the down town of San Luis Potosi.  There were many different things to see here, and many of them are old.  I mean really old.

Frogger in Mexico

Back home, my wife has one of those really old school portable frogger games (It still works).

I remember playing this game as a kid quite a bit on my computer, on my nintendo, or in the arcade.

But unfortunately, over here in San Luis Potosi Mexico, they play a different kind of frogger game and it scares the daylight out of me.

Interesting Lunch in San Luis Potosi

Let's just say, I went out at a time that we Canadians would think would be a good time to go out for lunch.  12:20pm

What we witnessed on the highway was something to be remembered.  The highway was closed in both directions by "La Policía Estatal" bye the federal jail.

This was the escorts...

Movember

Here I am in Mexico, and I just finaly posted about Movember.  It's still itchy as hell, but I'm half way there.  It has been noticed by a few people, and Darcy has already told me not to get used to it.

I've been wanting to grow one for Movember for a couple of years now, but I would keep forgetting until I would start noticing others peoples moustache.

I followed the rules and every thing.

November 1st - Start clean shaven
No facal hair under the lip and no connection between the moustache and side burns

I'm also registered with ca.movember.com

Here's a link if anyone is interested in donating to Mens's Health

http://ca.movember.com/mospace/642324/

Anyway, till next time
DanJr

It's 3 am

Well, I just got picked up by airways transit and I'm on my way to the airport for my 6 am flight to Dallas. It's bloody early!

I'm not the biggest fan of flighting. When to plane desends, my ears have a hard time with the pressure change and it normaly hurts like hell and this trip does it twice. Once to Dallas and again to San Luis Potosi Mexico.

The girls were all sleeping when I was picked up and Jake sent me off. He's such a great dog. It always sucks leaving my family for work, I alway miss stuff and the girls are growing up so fast.

O well, I figuered I'd just write this short post before I need to shut off my BB.

Have a good one
DanJr

Getting ready for another trip to Mexico

Broken car, unfinished gaming board and off to the middle of Mexico.  This has been a very different week, it started with work telling me to get ready to fly to Mexico at a customers site.  Two day travel and six days on site they tell me.....Right!  I've heard that before!  At least they didn't wait to Monday to tell me I'm leaving the next day.

It really sucks that next week is the week I'm going, because Darcy is done with her mat leave and Monday is her first day back.  I really wanted to help her out with her first week, at least I've got Monday.

And the bloody car!  I noticed on Thursday that you brakes on the car didn't feel right.  It would stop, but I had to push the peddle all the way down.  I called the mechanic on Friday morning to see if they can look into it.  By late afternoon I get a call and they tell me that the master cylinder for the brakes needs to be replaced.  I can fix machines that make cars, but the cars them self, bahh and what he hell is a master cylinder for a brake assembly.  It's over six hundred bucks for the part alone and they didn't have any in stock.  So on Monday, it's going to be a mad scramble to get the girls to the baby sitter, Darcy to work and my ass to work.

Fun fun fun!

I also got a chance to work on my portable gaming surface.  I have the base coat down and some kitty litter for texture.  I'll find out tomorrow it the glue did a good job with sealing the surface so that I can paint it without the litter following the brush or the roller.

I'll be posting some picks of the board some time next week I hope, once I get back from Mexico.

If I'm back come Wednesday of next week, this would be the first time work has ever been right about my travel arrangements.

Here's hoping.

DanJr

Scale

I made a youtube video a few weeks ago on scale (15mm) for flames of war.

Here is it...Roll2Hit

For those who don't know, FOW is a table top strategy game based on WWII.


DanJr

First Tank Platoon Done

I have to say, it feel pretty good the I finally have my first tank platoon done.  It only took a couple of painting sessions to get them done, but I was nervous to start them because I really wanted them to look good.

Well now I'm done, and I'm very happy with how they look.

Now that I have all that said...

Paint, paint and more paint!

Now that I have the 30mm scale models out of my system (for now), I can focus more on my FOW models.

My wife got me the Battlefront FOW bag for my birthday (very nice) and I picked up "Das Book".  I like!  I also finaly got my mortar platoons, reg and heavy.  I've been waiting for these guys for about 2 months now.

The one thing I really want to focus on once I've got these my units done it playing more games, and starting and finishing my terrain.  I find in our current games, we lack a lot in terrain and obstacles.  Using LOS rules is just one dynamic I really want to get more in my gaming.

I'm also looking forward to playing the missions in "Das Book".  The gaming board I have in mind will be pretty cool to play on, and the one that Rick is working on will also kick ass.

Anyway, on a side note, my curling season is working out pretty good.  We are winning the game that we should be and competing in the challenging ones and I'm improving.  I really like playing twice a week.

Anyway, that's all for now.

Good night
DanJr