Looking back ... looking ahead

 Another year ended only a month ago, this time it was ended in the mad rush of moving out from a somewhat cramped home and into a larger home with more families and connections in that home.

I am also noting that this year will mark the 20th anniversary of this blog.

In the process of unpacking and setting up in the new home I am also finding that many of the things I have collected up are reaching their limits.

an award I was presented in 1988

I have decided to release this award, as it has not been on any display for at least eight years.

This got me to also examining the photos of the various games that I printed out for being in frames, I am not certain that these will be put up in the new games space yet, though their fate has not been fully determined either.

There will be some books that are likely to get culled from the collection, as they are somewhat surplus now and it would be great to see them have new keepers that could use them.

While I still plan to finish off the minis I have cast and complete the games sets that I have been building (notably the ACW campaign set beyond Gettysburg), I am seeing more now that I have less time for construction and want more time for game play with what I already have.  Notably with my sons last year with some Napoleonic and ECW games that I really enjoyed.  Meaning that I am more likely to get back into some sort of a campaign game set-up, like the Campaign of Nations from 2013-18, so that the tabletop games get into action and will have some 'meaning' beyond the instant of that evening's game.

Lots of good memories of the 200th anniversary games that have been chronicled in this blog from early on in 2006 to 2015, so I suspect that there may be more reviews done of them over the course of this year.

I have had nagging interests in space games (based on the Star Fleet Battles game) and given that the interest among other players is limited, these urges might have to stand by longer.

The design and set up of the game spaces continues to take up time, along with the rest of the unpacking, and I think I might share some of the table planning thoughts here in the next week.  The building of this table will round out the new game space and put it into more likely a location for regular games - the aim being to do some game action on the table at least once a month after the construction is completed.

Not wanting to get more melancholy here, just looking for a place to get the thoughts put down before releasing many items.