On the back of buying the Saboteur and Ruthy and I talking about the nude content, leading onto a lament for the way our society and the media sexualise nudity (look, boobs!), we had been thinking about acceptable levels of content to subject Aurora to.
Posted on April 28th, 2011 at 9:31 pm — 2 Comments »
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:22 pm — No Comments »
When I was working my way out of my depression, way back over a year ago, Ruth had me on her Task Centred Therapy, which (and I’m simplifying things here) involved picking a task and dedicating all your mind to it. Didn’t matter if you finished it or not, purely working on the task was enough.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:21 pm — No Comments »
I have his other website, Cold Head Press (Don’t check it out, there’s no content there at the moment). When I first bought the domain and set up the site it was in the pre-Aurora haze of ‘I have the time to do anything!’ The problem with having all that time is the tendency not to spend it wisely.
Posted on March 13th, 2011 at 12:18 pm — No Comments »
Yeah, as the SVQ is out of the road, and after a week off from things I would really had to do, I cracked on with my writing yesterday.
Posted on February 13th, 2011 at 4:19 pm — 1 Comment »
It’s been hectic here in Casa Big Al. My SVQ is due soon, so a lot of my not working time has been focused on chewing through the thick language of my outstanding modules.
Posted on January 10th, 2011 at 6:42 pm — No Comments »
Yesterday I nipped in to the Glasgow Games Workshop store, for my over-priced gaming magazine and to scope out future plastic crack, and while i was watching two kids doing their best to play the fastest game I’ve ever seen, I ended up talking to their grandmother.
Posted on January 8th, 2011 at 8:51 pm — No Comments »
I was going to do a number of things today. I had planned to hit the library early doors to get some quiet college work time. But I had promised Ruthy a lie-in and looking after Aurora is not conducive to getting much done.
Posted on December 27th, 2010 at 7:14 pm — No Comments »
It certainly has been some year. Looking at her today, with rusk residue on her face and fingers and that already well used ‘butter wouldn’t melt’ look in her eyes, it’s difficult to see where all the time has gone.
Posted on November 19th, 2010 at 10:47 pm — 2 Comments »
I’ve got two weeks off work. I’m not going anywhere nice, this was one of those ‘use your holiday time or lose it’ moments, but I have every intention of getting the best out on my time.
Posted on November 7th, 2010 at 10:37 pm — No Comments »
Expected target : 11669
Actual wordcount : 11669
Saturday was a writing lite day. Wasn’t too bothered about it as Aurora has overnight with Ruth’s parents and I was having a day of films, beer and veging out. Bliss.
And today has been a fine day of catch up.
The last few days I’ve been really down about the whole experience but today, with the usual NaNoWriMo magic, i’ve really enjoyed the writing. Everything has fallen into place.
- Alistair
Posted on November 3rd, 2010 at 11:48 pm — No Comments »
Expected target : 5001
Actual wordcount : 5032
Caught up again. 
Have a few days off over the weekend so I’m hoping for good writing time then. And Aurora is staying overnight with in-laws Saturday to Sunday so peace to write! Whoo!
It was a struggle today, but not a words struggle. Just a ‘finding time to write’ struggle!
- Alistair
Posted on November 1st, 2010 at 2:51 am — No Comments »
In less than perfect circumstances my WriMo has officially started!
Aurora has been up since 1.30, upset and unwell, and there’s little chance of me getting sleep any time soon. Best make use of the time awake. Certainly I’ll be knackered once I get in from work tonight so any waking time is potential writing time!
-Alistair
Posted on October 3rd, 2010 at 2:40 pm — 1 Comment »
Less than a month to go until NaNoWriMo and I’m getting that familiar itch. (no, not THAT familiar itch…)
Posted on October 2nd, 2010 at 9:02 pm — No Comments »
On going through the additional miniatures I now have (yesterday’s post) I’ve had a closer look at the Space Hulk / Advanced Space Crusade ones along with a quick glance at the ASC rules.
Posted on October 1st, 2010 at 7:58 pm — 1 Comment »
(Well, only if it’s a small-ish table… 
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My mum and sister visited today, to spend some time with the Aurora-monster, and they brought with them a bountiful harvest of a bag of gaming miniatures.
Posted on September 4th, 2010 at 8:44 pm — No Comments »
Aurora has some childcare (whoo!) which gave myself and Ruthy a rare afternoon off. Bliss.
Posted on July 20th, 2010 at 11:12 pm — 1 Comment »
Next week is Read An RPG Book In Public Week. Make it so. Dust your favourite role-playing edition off your bookshelf and peruse it proudly in public.
I happen to be off work next week to look after Aurora so I might be doing Read An RPG Book To Your Daughter In Public Week.
All the info is at The Escapist.
- Alistair
Posted on July 18th, 2010 at 11:43 am — 3 Comments »
I have until the end of the week to get a story finished. Talk about leaving it to the last minute.
The added challenge is Ruth had to head up north for family reasons and I have the little Aurora goblin all to myself until she gets back. Not exactly conducive to a peaceful writing environment but maybe I should get aurora to help me finish it?
Perhaps her critical eye is exactly what is needed…
- Alistair
Posted on June 16th, 2010 at 10:46 pm — No Comments »
It has been a while (as usual) so I thought the blog required a bit of a update.
Posted on June 7th, 2010 at 7:01 pm — 3 Comments »
(Or ups and downs and the inevitable return of the Crisis of Confidence.)
I have a habit of becoming hermit-like every so often, even more than normal, and recently has been one of those periods. It’s annoying (a bloody pain to be honest) but it’s just something that has happened for years, easily since I hit my 20′s.
Now, I know this recent one is not a relapse of the poor mental health that plagued me last year. Generally I’ve been quite chipper. Work trundles on, they throw me some shifts if they’re feeling benevolent (joke, joke), Aurora is blossoming and Ruthy is as lovely as ever. A good and erstwhile chum is back from down south, it’s always good to have him around, and I have no reason to feel like this.
Yet I do.
Of course, the usual reason my mood suffers is due to the pressure I put myself under with my writing. Same old, same old. Perhaps I’m just going through the same mood I hit when I had my last whinge.
Ah, bugger. Prog beckons, I think. That should break me out of it.
- Alistair
Posted on March 7th, 2010 at 8:32 pm — No Comments »
Railman won’t be ready for Monday. Ruthy hasn’t been well and has been in quarantine for most of the day and Aurora isn’t all that well at the moment either.
If it’s tidy enough for early in the week I’ll release it then.
Sorry for the delay.
- Alistair
Posted on January 2nd, 2010 at 1:18 pm — 1 Comment »
So, happy new year!
It’s been a ‘interesting’ year, full of ups and downs.
It started well, with me riding high off the relative success of last year’s NaNoWriMo. It was an important milestone with my writing, the first time I ever got around to actually finishing something in a short time that I even remotely liked. So, that was Planet Of Snakes (a sequel to the unfinished Desert Of Zin) and very happy I was with it too.
Posted on December 28th, 2009 at 10:31 pm — No Comments »
Aurora Bain was born on Sunday 27th December at 4.07 in the afternoon.
Both mother and baby are doing well and should be back home from the hospital tomorrow.
(I would have posted this yesterday but I was shattered when I finally got home…)
- Alistair
