Hey, spoon benders,

Well, at least I'm consistant with my journal neglect. It's been a good four months since the last one, so it's about time another one was crafted.

I've outdone myself on the neglect front lately though. I've really not uploaded much art or been on DA at all in a while. Partly because of work, but more accurately because of playing Warhammer and the painting of the miniatures...of.

The neglect may continue, so just know that I'm not being a bastard, or dead. And as some of you may know, I've started a new comic series as a break from RG. The Teacher series is a somewhat satirical look at my profession, and the joy of working with teenagers *cough* and should be being added to soon.

So, down to business:

We left off the last Journal at the end of the school year 2008. It seems that it didn't take me long to start to miss the little brats, and so shortly before Christmas I had a reunion BBQ at the beach with some of them.




Christmas Eve
Was spent at and 's house with a range of our other friends. There was an almighty cascade of presents (Most of them for Tom) and as we waited for the big midnight, our recently departed friend joined us via telephone from America.






Christmas morning
Was spent at my Mum's house with my bro, my sis , G, Mum and Tony, with the usual giant stockings and present openings.




Christmas afternoon
Was a BBQ at my Dad's house.
We played Guitar Hero
And Basketball (Totally unstaged picture, honest...)




After Christmas, Britt came back up to Launie with us for a few days to spend New Years eve. We stopped at Richmond on the way back.




New Years eve itself was full of fun, booze, antics, glowsticks, a hundred party poppers, and making giant shadow cat faces outside.




Sortly before my birthday, G, Britt and I took the traditional trip up to Bicheno to stay a week in a unit and have fun in the crystal clear waters and pancake parlours. Dad, Jane, Nick and several others also stayed up at the same time but in a different unit.




A few of the highlights included:

Nick bogging his car in a dry creek bed while we were looking for a good swimming spot, after being inundated with jellyfish at every other place.



Swimming at the water hole and the beach.





After varying degrees of sunburn, our legs had the colour of neopolitan ice cream.



My birthday! Where I got an awesome phone and other awesome stuff.
Watching lots of Speed Racer and drawing.

Later on, Tom and Erika came to stay with us for a weekend. It was super hot, so we spent the first day having fun with the sprinkler and eating icy poles. Later on, we had a few drinkies and watched lots of Metalocolypse. I got way too drunk after drinking a whole bottle of nasty scotch, and didn't have a terribly pleasant Sunday.






In more boring news. The new school year has started. I have a class of Grade 9 and 10 students, and I am teaching Maths, Science, Computer Graphics, Forensic science, Marine science, Environmental science, English, Pathways and Model Sculpture this year. I am feeling a little over worked...and the year doesn't quice has as nice a feel to it as last year did...but we'll see how it goes.

last weekend, Tom and Erika came up to visit us again. We did stuff, watched stuff, drank stuff, and had over on the saturday night. Twas fun! It was also Easter, and some eggs and bunnies were exchanged.




Over the past few weeks, G and I have started playing Warhammer on the new 6x4 foot modular board I built. Here are some pics of it, us playing, and some of the Bretonnians I have been painting. (That's my army)








Recently, G has been super nice and helped me create some journal headers and stuff to make this thing more interesting. I think it came out pretty well, and might inspire me to do them more often.

Welp, until next time!









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