When did it become 2013?

I'm sitting here at the new house, cat asleep on my lap, an O'douls by my side, which can only mean one thing.  It's sober January, which means we crossed some annual meridian into 2013.  I'm sure few others are surprised, frankly with the fanfare it's hard to miss.  But looking around and my last entry is Sept 2012...Ok. So where are things?

1. The house is purchased, and there is a hobby room.  It's small, not a complaint, but frankly right now it's appropriately sized.  Frame in book shelves and other storage solutions and I'm really not sure what I'm going to do for a gaming table.  4x6 will fit.  You won't be able to sit down at it, or probably stand either, but it will fit.

2. Stuff is back. After about a three year hiatus for some of my key items, and a good 20 month hiatus from all the toys. And that feels good.

3. Holy Crap I have a lot of toys.  I've reduced already-twenty one boxes of books and other stuff, and tossing papers of previous eras. But as I have continued to dig, and placed to the side a full box of miniatures for a good home.  Even as I look to other solutions for storage, more have to go. Or at least get them off Popsicle sticks.

4. Project take aways.
     a. Finish unpacking
     b. Reduce, reduce, reduce I've gotten rid of about half my books at this point, and probably it was time.  But more minis have to go.  Already I've cut some 28mm Heroics, 28mm WW2, 6mm Epic, and, sigh....10mm Warmaster.  Maybe.  That may be later.  Stuff is still missing though.
     c. From here I shouldn't need to buy anything new for a while...what's old is new.   I'd forgotten about some of my projects.  And wow that's a lot of Austrians. This means no 3mm modern/advance wars, no investments in figures frankly for a while.  Terrain's in play of course.

Sigh...not very exciting.  But let's face it, it something.  Let me go nip off and work on the other drafts I have laying around.