Exploring Uncertainty… a blog on speculative fiction, gaming and photography

I’ve been holding off for quite some time to play Warhammer 40K. I’ve played around with it’s smaller cousin Battletech in the past, but the inspiration and awe of watching massive 40K armies clash has always resonated with me over the years. My brother-in-law is a huge 40K player and we’ve been discussing how in time, I would get together my stuff and we’d end up playing together. He has a great man-cave in his basement with the tables and terrain for 40K get togethers.

A couple of weeks ago, I decided that it was time to start collecting the rule books and novels, to get my feet wet in the Warhammer 40K world so that in a year or two I’d be ready. I got together with my brother-in-law to borrow some of his books and discuss these plans and in return it looks like I will be getting into Warhammer 40K even sooner than I thought. Like probably as soon as later on this month.

As an avid collector for years, he has several armies. Currently he is playing around with Tyranids and I am interested in playing with Space Marines as my first army. Turns out he has a pretty fair sized Space Marine army that he is willing to loan to me for awhile as I build up my army and so we can play. Woohoo!! So for the past week, I’ve been checking out the rulebook (5th edition), the codexes (Space Marines, Ultramarines) from previous editions (to get a general feel of the lore and history behind Space marines) and a couple of novels from Black Library.

I am looking forward to playing my first game later this month and will be putting together my Space Marine army together over the next week or so. In addition to all of this, an engineer friend of ours has also decided that she wants to get into Warhammer 40K as well, and her first army choice are the Orks. So we’ve been discussing picking up a set of Black Reach each and trading each other’s armies to one another. Pretty good start when we do this. Both of us are taking it slow though, as getting involved in Warhammer 40K can be a costly hobby. I’ll post more about Warhammer 40K and my first battle when they happen. Until later!

Edit: the pic in this post from Scars of War blog: http://scarsofwargame.com/DevBlog/?p=647

For the past year I’ve been concentrating on my photography business, working it full time and exclusively. Economic times being what they are, I am happy with the success of my business, but I also needed to increase my incoming revenue. So I am back at work full time in outside sales – credit processing actually and I am still working my photography business.

All of this though ment that I was sacrificing my creative outlet for writing and exploring. In photographs – been doing amazing creative work (least IMO), but as much as I enjoy photography, I am also a writer. A gamer. An explorer of imagination. So Exploring Uncertainty needed to come back.

So here it is! Have a lot of work to do, as always I dream big and have huge plans. I’m off to work for now and this afternoon have some photo editing that needs to be done. Later tonight though I intend on putting some more time in on the blog. Getting the pages lined up and working the categories I intend on having here. Until then!

Exploring Uncertainty is back. The photography business blog will be hosted elsewhere. My photography business is doing well and I decided since I have the business web site (http://samuelgussphotography.com) that I might as well bring this site back to my roots as a writer.

So once again, we’ll be exploring the uncertainties of life through speculative fiction, horror, science fiction and apocalyptic fiction. News, stories, reviews that tweak my writing funny bone will be laid bare. In addition, since I am feeling a bit selfish lately, the blog will also reflect some of my other interests as well. Namely gaming.

Video gaming, MMO’s, RPG’s, board games, strategy war games, card games, the whole gambit. And if all of that wasn’t enough, I am still very much a photographer. So, I will be sharing some of my photography here on the blog. Not neccessarily my wedding and portrait photography that pays the businesses bills, but the photography that is truly personal – my fine art and nature photography, with the occassional glamour or even wedding photo that I am extra proud of.

The blog will be even bigger than it was before. More in-depth, more content, moe of everything that makes me “me”. And not from a business perspective – and while yes, from the perspective of a struggling writer and hard core game nered, it is a blog for – me. And those like me. Those who like a little variety and spice things up. Where one day discussion of Warhammer 40K strategies rule, while the next a science article on germ warfare is the ticket. Where you can read a little about anything and everything.

Even about whats new and happening with yours truly. Hang on for the ride it should be fun! Most of the posts as you may notice are just filler at the moment, as I am still putting together site content (haven’t I been doing that now for about 18 months?) and the “look” I want for the site.

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