So the Florida regional is next week - was all set to go and I look at our calendar this morning and my oldest son's Boy Scout - Pinewood Derby event is that same day. (We've been building a car for it together).
Do you A) - Be a good daddy and go with your son,
or
B) - Tell your son to find his own ride to the Pinewood Derby, and finish your list for Regionals.
lol JK there's no choice here, I'm obviously going with my son - but **** dude I really hate boy scouts more and more every week.
You're such a good dad, Crabbok 
Just let him know he owes you now 
3 minutes ago, Crabbok said:
So the Florida regional is next week - was all set to go and I look at our calendar this morning and my oldest son's Boy Scout - Pinewood Derby event is that same day. (We've been building a car for it together).
Do you A) - Be a good daddy and go with your son,
or
B) - Tell your son to find his own ride to the Pinewood Derby, and finish your list for Regionals.
lol JK there's no choice here, I'm obviously going with my son - but **** dude I really hate boy scouts more and more every week.
Well if you paint the car to look like a CR 90, then you can do both!
@Crabbok Have same situation so I understand You. In this year i droped from 4 Armada tournament because of family Life. (In Poland we have Armada tournament boom now). Past year was 5th in our National ranking. Probably will not have a Chance this one to be in top 10. My son is older each Day.
I just returned from Winter holidays that I spend in Bed and in hospital because of some nasty flu. Each day my Wife took him to play on snow. I realised that this moments with him are lost Forever for me.
I have one rule with tournament and miniatures (**** they are part of my live for over 20 years). Spend maximum of 3h/week toying with topic. Go once a month on tournament. That is maximum you may spend on hobby. Nothing more.
I need only that. Nothing more. Try this rule;)
I know the pain. Until my son was born I played at least once every week, sometimes more. Since he was born, I played 3 or 4 times in 10 months... 
2 minutes ago, NairoD said:@Crabbok Have same situation so I understand You. In this year i droped from 4 Armada tournament because of family Life. (In Poland we have Armada tournament boom now). Past year was 5th in our National ranking. Probably will not have a Chance this one to be in top 10. My son is older each Day.
I just returned from Winter holidays that I spend in Bed and in hospital because of some nasty flu. Each day my Wife took him to play on snow. I realised that this moments with him are lost Forever for me.
I have one rule with tournament and miniatures (**** they are part of my live for over 20 years). Spend maximum of 3h/week toying with topic. Go once a month on tournament. That is maximum you may spend on hobby. Nothing more.
I need only that. Nothing more. Try this rule;)
Think I'm pretty much living by this "rule". Having a couple of jobs and a family doesn't give much spare time for hobby related things. And I can totally relate with the notion of missing out on things with the kids, though in my case it's more due to work than hobbys. But it still feels wonderful to get to play a game once every two to three weeks
This is good stuff since I'm going to be a father in July.
People laugh at me and say I'll never get to do the stuff I enjoy doing once the kid comes. To them, I remind them that I work customer service and I'll either eventually stab somebody, become a functional alcoholic, or you'll let me get some time to paint stuff or go game. 
To spend time with my Son, I work a graveyard shift when he sleeps, and sleep in between the 12 hours I look after him while his mother is at work, and my own work.
Yeah... its not positive when you run the math on those Hours... but its what you do...
I'm having my second any day now. Was going to run up to Calgary for the regional last week with @Mikael Hasselstein, but it was just too close to the birth, plus have the 6 year old to watch out for in the meantime. At least the newborn will be small enough to chill with me while I play, at least for a while; I just hope my regular opponents don't get squeamish about me breastfeeding while we play (I can do things one-handed!), heh.
58 minutes ago, Admiral Theia said:I just hope my regular opponents don't get squeamish about me breastfeeding while we play (I can do things one-handed!), heh.
Well, it could certainly be an advantage in tournament play ...
3 hours ago, Crabbok said:
So the Florida regional is next week - was all set to go and I look at our calendar this morning and my oldest son's Boy Scout - Pinewood Derby event is that same day. (We've been building a car for it together).
Do you A) - Be a good daddy and go with your son,
or
B) - Tell your son to find his own ride to the Pinewood Derby, and finish your list for Regionals.
lol JK there's no choice here, I'm obviously going with my son - but **** dude I really hate boy scouts more and more every week.
Can you use a surplus ISD as the body? Probably too wide ... Looking at them, an MC80 might be the perfect size.
As a long time gamer and father, I have been, and still am there. I can also tell you all, that there is an awesome bonus that happens as those kids start to grow up. They want to start playing games with you. Let them, and you have a shot at having a live-in gaming buddy until they graduate. Yeah, you miss lots of game opportunities while they are small, but as they get older games with them become family time, and you start having more time to make it out.
I'm also an Assistant Scoutmaster for my sons' troop, and took the opportunity to run a RPG weekend campout this winter. We got a cabin, and spent about half the weekend playing Star Wars D6.
Go to the regional. Your kid will get far more from the next twenty years of guilt tripping you than the Derby.
It's clearly time to tell your son he should move out..
Scout derby. Take photos.
I like to be both. I put on an Admirals hat and make my wife call me Daddy.
Don’t judge me.
........too much information
I saw someone do both yesterday, when one of our local players brought his 10 year old son to the Store Kit Tournament.
The kid's pretty good too, and managed a solid second place.
I have four. If I had a different set of hobbies, I might be fine, but board games and RPGs require too big a block of time, plus matching schedules with other people. But half my young offspring can already play Castle Panic and Kingdomino, and we’ve been getting in a few games of No Thank You, Evil. One of these days, they’ll be old enough that we can do the Corellian Conflict as our family game night.
And regarding the pinewood derby: when I was a kid it was the only reason I stayed in scouts as long as I did. I’ve got some gold and silver medals from it somewhere... Once you carve the wood to the shape you want it, soak it in water overnight to put some weight on it, then apply a sealer. There’s an upper weight limit, but you can hit that without having just a block of wood on wheels.
1 hour ago, Tayloraj100 said:I have four. If I had a different set of hobbies, I might be fine, but board games and RPGs require too big a block of time, plus matching schedules with other people. But half my young offspring can already play Castle Panic and Kingdomino, and we’ve been getting in a few games of No Thank You, Evil. One of these days, they’ll be old enough that we can do the Corellian Conflict as our family game night.
My 6 year old plays games like Risk, Chess, and Tokaido. They’ve played a few games of X-Wing and ST:Attack Wing before I sold them off. I can’t wait for their reading skills to get up to snuff for Armada.
8 hours ago, elbmc1969 said:Well, it could certainly be an advantage in tournament play ...
You’d think, but ample cleavage already doesn’t. Though maybe feeding will just make them all flustered and distracted. I’m not above using what few advantages I can wrest from our BS patriarchal cultural stuff :-D
17 hours ago, Crabbok said:
So the Florida regional is next week - was all set to go and I look at our calendar this morning and my oldest son's Boy Scout - Pinewood Derby event is that same day. (We've been building a car for it together).
Do you A) - Be a good daddy and go with your son,
or
B) - Tell your son to find his own ride to the Pinewood Derby, and finish your list for Regionals.
lol JK there's no choice here, I'm obviously going with my son - but **** dude I really hate boy scouts more and more every week.
It will all be worth it when he is Florida Governor.
Missing Worlds and @shmitty's sweet team tourney this year for this specific reason.
Things Star Destroyers don't do:
- Wake me up all night every night
- Require food but refuse to eat it
- Steal my toothpaste while I'm at work and hide it in the toilet
- Give me disgusting sloppy kisses goodbye in the mornings
- Get excited and run up to give me sticky hugs when I come home at night
- Run around in circles in the back yard hold my hand, making airplane noises and cackling until they can't breathe.
Things both Star Destroyers and my son do:
- Make "boom!" and "crash!" sounds all the time.
Time to get him out of the scouts and start training in him the arts if Armada instead xD
@Crabbok, don't feel bad....I've decided not to go myself. Just can't justify the drive and expense at this point....