YT-1300 Corellian light freighter

My phone died last week, so I was looking for a way to keep occupied in the evenings. I came across the metal earth model kits the in-laws got me last Christmas that for whatever reason I just hadn't found time to work on yet. This seemed like as good a time as any.

So no phone meant no build shots, but I have plenty of finished shots once I finally got my new phone and had a camera to play with.

Some of these pieces were crazy small! I wish I had build shots just to document how insane some of these were.

I've build major pieces of furniture, and parts of this were driving me crazy. I guess my beefy hands are better suited for rougher work.

But in the end it doesn't look too bad.

Here's a butt shot. The struts those landing feet are on were insanely tiny. That was probably the hardest part of the build.

With this one done, I also have a batmobile and Iron Man set to maybe build. We'll see. And in bigger news, I'd like to build the girl a desk at some point. I better get crackin' while I have some time before my next classes start.

Holy god it's too early for this

Yeah I'd like it to be June please.

Travel cocktails for the holiday

Whew!

Between writing a strategy document/presentation at work and the first chapter of a dissertation for school, November really got away from me this year. So I haven't had much time to work on anything, but I did make sure to grab a travel cocktail kit to make sure I had something to drink over Thanksgiving.

There's no shame in needing an extra drink or two over the holidays, and I've traveled enough to know that I want to have a specific kind of drink at the end of a long day. So I was optimistic a travel old fashioned kit would help alleviate that feeling. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't as good as home either.

I ended up cramming two kits worth of supplies into one tin, just in case. I was glad I did b/c I got a little more mileage out of them this way. Re-using a glass that somehow found its way to the room after the bar helped too.

For some reason, they came with cane sugar vs regular or super fine. Cane is good for coffee, not so much for cocktails.

But the bitters were fine, and the spoon is handy, so my happiness at using the kit outweighed being annoyed by the kind of sugar. And besides, it's easy enough to grab some of the coffee supplies to supplement the drink.

I would recommend them, if only to make traveling a little more pleasant.