Seeing Mason off to College last Summer  Has it really been 9 months already?  Reading Jon's most recent update  for WSS's great wargame survey has me thinking about the online portion of my hobby again.  This blog has essentially joined the hundreds/thousands of  historical miniatures 'dead blogs' that reside here on blogger.  (A recent foray through the 141 blogs I am still subscribed to show roughly 2/3s have not updated within the last two years).  Jon's post highlighted where we report we are getting our inspiration from.  I admit part of my own blog fade is due in large part to what I see as the fragmentation of the hobby in the digital space.   I continue to chip away at my Thirty Years War project (including a trip to the Rhineland-Palatinate last April), and the search for army inspiration, paint schemes, and battle histories has exposed me to the vast array of digital sources to be searched.  Video sites like youtube ...