Bad Dice Podcast and Honolulu

Just signed up for the Bad Dice Podcast (Warhammer Fantasy podcast out of the U.K.) hobby progress challenge as well. It is hard to resist the combined temptations of motivation and prizes for doing something that I already wanted to do. I know that trying to do two of these a month is going to be nuts so I think I'll probably go really simple (three color, simple base) on the Elves and focus on making the 40k models pretty.

Going to do WoodElves and here is the army that I have settled on;

Wood Elves 2400 pts.

• Highborn (236) Annoyance of netlings, The Spear of Twilight, Hail of Doom Arrow, longbow, light armor, shield
• Noble (175) BSB-The Royal Standard of Ariel, longbow
• Noble (145) Wild Rider kindred, the Dawnspear, longbow
• Spellsinger (175) Lv.2 (Athel Loren), Divination Orb, Befuddlement of Mischiefs, long bow
• Glade Guard x10 (132) Musician, champion, GG longbows
• Glade Guard x10 (132) Musician, champion, GG longbows
• Dryads x12 (156) Champion
• Eternal Guard x10 (150) Musician, Standard, Champion
• Scouts x5 (97) Musician
• Glade Riders x5 (138) Musician, champion
• Wild Riders x5 (191) Musician, standard-Saemrath the banner of the zenith, champion
• Tree-kin x3 (195)
• Wardancers x5 (111) Musician, Champion
• Treeman (285)
• Great Eagle x2 (100)

This gives me a crap list to play in game (probably) but I can paint most of the cool models that I have for the army. I am pretty sure that is legal but if not I can change it around a bit and still remain close to the points with just these models. Also, since it is quite MSU I stand a chance of being able to complete it along with my 40k challenge. I don't play in any tournaments or anything like that so the list itself doesn't matter too much and when (if?) the Wood Elves get a reboot someday they are bound to come down in points and this will be a base I can build off of to hopefully make it a little tougher. 

Honolulu was pretty much the same as last time. Lots of good food and a quick trip to the gaming store followed by me getting grumpy and wanting to come home. I don't know if it is one thing specifically but the combination of bureaucracy-stress, lots of people, long walks in direct sunlight, and always going there either right after or right before work puts me in a bad mood on the second day. Always happy to get back to Kona (though I do wish we had a game store here) 

And for people that are going to have international marriages don't read websites about the interviews, it is not nearly as bad as it is made out to be. Movies and articles on the web make you think they are going to ask all of these outlandish questions (do they have a birthmark, how do they make their coffee, what soap do they use?) but that is only in extremely suspicious cases where it's obvious that it is a scam (which there was one that was very likely while we were there- doddering old man that looked dazed the whole time, with a much younger pretty foreign woman...) The interviewer asked us when we started thinking about marriage, why she said yes and what we do together. Not including the wait the entire interview took less than 15 minutes. Was totally not worth worrying about. 

Though, to be fair, we don't know the results yet hahaha  

Aaaaand, just cause I don't want to post without any interesting pics here is some damn cold Mauna Kea (this was '09) 

(yeah those are horizontal icicles)