This still exists?

So, it's been 10½ years since I logged in to this blog. To be honest, I'd forgotten it existed.


So here's a brief précis of where those years went.

• 2015: I attended ASLOK XXX (not knowing it might have been my last ASLOK)
• 2016 - 2018 Work went nuts and became toxic until stress forced me to resign.
• 2017 - 2018 I got sucked into the worlds of 3D Printing; and non-ASL boardgames.
• 2019 Recuperation from severe stress related illness and depression
• 2020 I moved back to New Zealand just before Covid hit the big time. 
• 2020 - 2022 were complete washes apart from getting an e-scooter and VASL 
• 2023 started playing in the esoteric WARR tournaments and had a lot of fun.
  
• 2024 3-4 months sabbatical from all things gaming due to health but came back with a vengeance.
• 2025  so far the first three months have been hectic on many fronts but that will have to wait until I have the time and energy to explain what I've been up to this year, which I'm right in the middle of right now so might wait for the weekend to post.

ASLOK XXIX October 1-12 Loot

 The final list of loot. I didn't think I would have much difficulty getting it back weight-wise, but space was at a premium. I need to work on my luggage system still. I have the weight allowance but not the room.

• 3 x Dice towers from Jack Daniels
• Schwerpunkt 20 x 3 (Aaron C, Jackson Kw)
• Friendly Fire 9 x 4 (Aaron C, Jackson Kw, Ivan K)
• Rally Point 9 x 2 (Jackson Kw)
• ESG Dezign Pak 10 
• Panzerknacker, Molotov, Dust Devils, Sniper, and ROF dice
• East vs West 12mm 5 dice set (Ivan K)
• Tweezers x 2
• 300 x US sized page protectors
• Overlay Binder and Inserts
• Travel Board Binder
• 2mm, 2.5mm, 3mm deluxe counter cutters
• Festung Budapest, Decision at Elst, Rising Sun
• ASLOK XXIX Tees x 5 (Aaron C, Jackson Kw)
• ASL Open Tees x 2 (Jackson Kw)
• Plano 3601 low-profiles x 5
• Longstreet: A Biography by Jeffrey Werts
• Guadalcanal by Richard Franks
• Gettysburg: the Second Day by Harry Pfanz
• AVRES in Normandy by Richard C Anderson Jr 
• Pleva HIP Trays x 3
• Ops Spec Ed vol 4 and Vol 5
• Board 68 x 3  (Aaron C, Vlad S) 
• Miscellaneous Critical Hit modules (mainly desert and winter)

I gave away one of the Pleva trays to an ASLer who has been doing it tough, and one set of tweezers was passed on to another ASLer.

Sadly I managed to lose a pair of Battleschool dice (green and white 14mm plain) as well as the little counter picker, but they are easily replaced.