Lazy Monday Morning

Last week was a typical work week but there was an element of post holiday "blahs".  The previous week was Golden Week, the week where four statutory holidays get crammed into a span five to six days.  This year the holidays were mid week.  At our company that meant that there were work days popping up in the middle of what could have been a continuous 10 day period away from work.  One co-worker was a touch annoyed with that.  But I think we got off better than some of our students.  I asked in one class "How was your Golden Week?" and a student replied "I worked...".

I've been keeping myself somewhat occupied for the past month or so.  Read a number of books, upped the frequency of my visits to the gym, and kept plugging away at assembling model ships.  The latest one to reach completion is the one in the foreground of the photo below.  It's a little more than 10cm in length...if that.  I built it "OOB" - out of the box - in modeller's lingo.  No after market parts were added to the kit.  It was a bit of a challenge to build since the hull was originally sagging at the stern.  After my first round of warming up the hull in hot water and reshaping it, the bow was bent upward.  So the process was repeated.  In the end I managed to get it reasonably flat.

A friend asked me what do I do with these models.  I told him I eventually take them back to Canada.  He asked my why didn't I sell them.  My curt answer was "What's the point of that?".  It more or less meant that I didn't think there would be any buyers and furthermore that's the last thing I would think of doing when I assemble them.  I guess I'll be leaving the question of how to dispose of my collection to someone else....