Sometimes You Just Skip a Year

As much as many of us would like to pretend 2017 just didn't happen, I always find it useful to reflect on the last bit of time and see what worked, what didn't and what I'd like to change.

• Games Played
• Worked: Played 40K, Age of Sigmar, Dungeons and Dragons and Iron Kingdoms RPG. I've got 3 healthy Dungeons and Dragons games I'm running and a couple regular game nights per week.
• Stumbled: I've got a lot of Warmachine armies that haven't seen the battlefield in a long time. Infinity also remains of interest to me.
• 2018: Keep it up with the games I've got going. Gaming groups require careful attention and grooming and I don't want to lose what I've got. I'd also like to occasionally play some of the games I've been neglecting the last few years. Company of Iron seems like a great way to get back into Warmachine/Hordes and I'd love to really figure out how to play Infinity
• Models Painted
• Worked: I painted about 40 models this year. My new place of employment has enough people at it that there's a group that runs a painting contest every month.  This has been a great motivator and I've even picked up a couple of free models to boot.
• Stumbled: Things got painted but what I painted was all over the place. I made a point to pick models from a different game system or faction each month.  It means every month's project was fresh for me, but it also means that I didn't get much closer to having a fully painted army.
• 2018: Focus the hobby aspect.  Get a faction's worth of models painted up. Play a game with all painted models that I painted myself.  Get some of my big models painted. I like the bingo board over at Rob Hawkins as a good tracker.
• Video Games
• Worked: Besides a few mobile games I did basically nothing related to video games in 2018.
• Stumbled: See above
• 2018: Get Constellar back on the App Store, publish another app or two. I need to make more time to play games, too, if for no other reason than to stay on top of current trends.
• Content Creation
• Worked: I'm running a few Dungeons & Dragons games, so I'm generating content, just not releasing it to the public at large. I started posting some to instagram and facebook, but let my twitter account(s) gather dust.
• Stumbled: Zero posts on the blog. With this one I at least beat last week's tally. No rules or battle reports reported, either.
• 2018: Get back on the social media train. At least post pictures of the models I finished for the painting contest at work.