An Exercise in Frustration

This has got to be one of the most frustrating weeks ever. I've been waiting to hear back about a job opportunity that I was first contacted about the middle of last week, this is complicated since Easter is coming up and many people are out of the office this week. Also, my girlfriend is three provinces over visiting her sister. Between her being away and waiting for the phone to ring (a huge frustration at the best of times) it has been a very long week, despite the fact that it has really been a short week, if you follow me.

Between being intensely bored I have been doing some reading and working on a 1:72 scale model of the Merkava 1, an Isreali main tank. The hull and turret are basically together, that leaves the tracks, which are the glue-together variety and which I find very hard to assemble since they tend to fall apart because the bond created by the still semi-liquid glue is very week. Mostly they just fall apart on me, which is why I prefer the old single-piece 'rubber band' tracks, especially at small scales. I would like to experiment with the tracks of the newer Dragon kits though... supposedly they click together, you shape them around the suspension, followed by a quick wash with liquid cement and they're ready to go. Sadly, only available on the more expensive 1:35 scale kits, and then only on the latest issues.

Also paid bills today. Thanks to online banking the actual payments are painless, although figuring out how best to divide up a very small pie is not.