I have been “unavailable” of late, due mainly to the Memsahib occupying the home office. It is a public holiday weekend, therefore she has been working on her normal office work for around two thirds of every day (“because I can do it here uninterrupted”).
Therefore I have been excluded from the home office with my main computer and relegated to functions available on my i-Pad or my old Windows 7 Notepad, which is painfully slow (it was the latest technology when I bought it at Currys duty-free at Heathrow)
However, I have this afternoon been allowed an hour to update my Market Garden campaign by a further 30 minutes and send reports to two of my PBEM “Generals”. We are just approaching 15:30 on 18th September (day 2 of the operation), although some individual combats have progressed as far as 19:00.
It is not easy to keep track of where every unit is on the main map, particularly when a local engagement is played that continues beyond the current campaign time frame.
I think I may have one more engagement to play before everyone settles down for the night and brings in stragglers and recovered casualties.
On other fronts, I have managed some painting, but my 3D printer has packed up and a new “more precise” print head is on order.
I have been able to use the old notepad PC to create unit stickers for my 13mm plastic counters for my planned “D-day and beyond” solo game (of which more later). I have to find my opportunities to print the stickers during the Memsahib’s coffee breaks, and then spend hours attaching them to the blank plastic tokens.
General Whiskers' semi-historical wanderings 