Wednesday – 09 March 2011
Midweek.
New comics day. Not D&D 4.0 night… because ‘s little Thunder turns one-year-old today. (And, quite frankly, celebrating your kid’s birthday is a good reason to cancel your gaming session.)
Today is also Ash Wednesday (1, 2, 3, 4) the first day of the Lent.
Last night, SaraRules! had mentioned having pancakes for dinner, as it was Shrove Tuesday. By the time I got home, she had changed her mind. But, she still kept a bit of the Mardi Gras spirit alive with her selection: Jambalaya. We also finished off the last two episodes of last season’s Burn Notice. Shortly after that, I went to spend a little time in LEGO Universe. My minifig now has pets. That’s right, pets: A dog, a cat and two rabbits.
Stray Toasters
Is it bad that my first inclination for an “Ash Wednesday” picture was to post a picture of Ash Williams?
The Volkswagen Inspection Car that I’ve been coveting has long been absent from MTH Trains’ catalogs. On a bit of a lark, I posted a question about them on MTH’s Facebook page. This morning, I received a reply: The cars were made for MTH by a company out of the Czech Republic… and that this company was still in business. I found their website and it turns out that they still make the cars. This bears a little further investigation…
For me, the morning started out with me shoveling somewhere between 8 and 10″ of snow off the driveway (… the closest thing that I’ve done to a “workout” in longer than I’d care to admit). That’s right, Mother Nature looked down on the Salt Lake Valley and decided that we needed a fresh blanket of snow. And it appears as though the east side of the valley got the brunt of it; west-siders got 2-3″ of new powder.
Yesterday, I received the newest addition to my layout: Angelo’s Pizza Delivery Van. That’s right, I now have “traffic.” I also noted a difference between the two vans: the pizza van is faster on the straight sections; the painting van is faster in the curves. I’m still a little torn as to whether or not I want to expand the SuperStreets to the other board. *shrug*
Wednesday – 02 March 2011
Not only is it the middle of the week…
Not only is it new comics day… MacCool’s is having another Guinness dinner tonight. And SaraRules! and I are going.
Last night, SaraRules! and I attended the Utah Symphony 2011-12 Season Announcement Reception at Abravanel Hall. Music Director Thierry Fischer (1, 2, 3) spoke about his vision for the Utah Symphony and the seven directives that drove his choices for the upcoming season and beyond. (There will be a Beethoven cycle throughout the season!) The symphony also unveiled their newly updated website. The event was neatly run and well-managed, and seemed to come off without any outwardly visible problems.
After the event, I jetted over to ‘ for our D&D 3.5 game. A couple of the players weren’t able to make it, but we still managed to accomplish a (not-so) minor goal and give ourselves a slightly longer-term objective, to boot. Now, if we can just manage to pull it off without getting ourselves killed…
Tuesday – 01 March 2011
A new month begins.
Today also marks the beginning of Women’s History Month.
T minus three days to the train show.
T minus sixteen days until Green Lantern/St. Patrick’s Day.
Last night was very low-key around the house. SaraRules! fixed soft-shelled tacos and rice for dinner. While eating, we knocked out the last two episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles on the DVR and watched an episode of House Hunters about a couple in Texas. (They were almost as finicky as the couple I posted about a few days ago who were looking for the one-level home.) But, they found a spot they liked.
Tonight, SaraRules! and I are attending Utah Symphony‘s 2011-12 Season Announcement Reception at Abravanel Hall. (Yeah, I get some pretty swank fringe benefits of having a wife with a cool job.) After that, I’ll be dashing off to join ‘ D&D game. No rest for the wicked, I guess.
I finally got robandsara.org back up and running… only to realize that we never posted much after (read: “anything”) after the wedding. There’s still some fine-tuning to be done, but the pages are there. I’m thinking that I’ll be adding content from here (and from some photo galleries) over the next little while to bring it a little more up-to-date.
I bought a new van for my railroad layout’s Superstreets last night. I should have it in-hand sometime next week, God willin’ and the creek don’t rise.
Thursday – 03 February 2011
It’s my NBN Technical Friday. Amen.
Last night was D&D (4.0) game night with and company. We almost team-wiped twice. It wasn’t pretty. But, we finished two encounters… and everyone survived. Barely. One neat, but unrelated thing: Jack and I noticed a Justice League Chess Set for sale for $50 (USD). We were intrigued. We pondered it for a bit before realizing that we could just “build” a chess set, using ‘Clix figures for the pieces for a lot less, should we decide that we really couldn’t live without one.
I also played a little DCUO last night. I’m still having a lot of fun with it. Last night, I was sent to a new (to me) part of Metropolis, Chinatown, to meet Zatanna for my next set of missions. Let me just say that this part of the city looks simply amazing. The DCUO team also released another teaser video that portends ill things…
AND… new information has been released about new content being added to the game, including their Valentine’s Day event content, as well.
Chew on This: Food for Thought – Black History Month
Today’s personality is: Stokely Carmichael
Kwame Ture, also known as Stokely Carmichael, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced “snick”) and later as the “Honorary Prime Minister” of the Black Panther Party. Initially an integrationist, Carmichael later became affiliated with black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements. He popularized the term “Black Power”.
In 1960, Carmichael went on to attend Howard University, a historically-black school in Washington, D.C., rejecting scholarship offers from several white universities. His apartment on Euclid Street was a gathering place for his activist classmates. He graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1964.
He joined the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), the Howard campus affiliate of SNCC.He was inspired by the sit-ins to become more active in the Civil Rights Movement. In his first year at the university, he participated in the Freedom Ridesof the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and was frequently arrested, spending time in jail. In 1961, he served 49 days at the infamous Parchman Farm in Sunflower County, Mississippi. He was arrested many times for his activism. He lost count of his many arrests, sometimes giving the estimate of at least 29 or 32, and telling the Washington Post in 1998 he believed the total number was fewer than 36.
Carmichael saw nonviolence as a tactic as opposed to a principle, which separated him from moderate civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr.. Carmichael became critical of civil rights leaders who simply called for the integration of African Americans into existing institutions of the middle class mainstream.
The Black Panthers and Carmichael disagreed on whether white activists should be allowed to help the Panthers. The Panthers believed that white activists could help the movement, while Carmichael thought as Malcolm X, saying that the white activists needed to organize their own communities first. In 1969, he and his then-wife, the South African singer Miriam Makeba, moved to Guinea-Conakry where he became an aide to Guinean prime minister Ahmed Sékou Touré and the student of exiled Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah.Makeba was appointed Guinea’s official delegate to theUnited Nations. Three months after his arrival in Africa, in July 1969, he published a formal rejection of the Black Panthers, condemning the Panthers for not beingseparatist enough and their “dogmatic party line favoring alliances with white radicals”.
It was at this stage in his life that Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture to honor the African leaders Nkrumah and Touré who had become his patrons. At the end of his life, friends still referred to him interchangeably by both names, “and he doesn’t seem to mind.”
Carmichael remained in Guinea after separation from the Black Panther Party. He continued to travel, write, and speak out in support of international leftist movements and in 1971 collected his work in a second book Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism. This book expounds an explicitly socialist, Pan-African vision, which he seemingly retained for the rest of his life. From the late 1970s until the day he died, he answered his phone by announcing “Ready for the revolution!”
The Super Bowl is Sunday. As the Ravens (and Dolphins and Panthers) are not in the game, I guess this means that I’m a Packers fan… at least through the weekend.
Friday – 28 January 2011
It’s finally Friday. Granted, it’s my “on” Friday, but that’s okay… I’m cutting out of here a little early and heading to Thanksgiving Point with to check out the Ophir-Tintic &Western Model Railroad Show.
Last night, SaraRules! and I – along with about 18 other people – went to The Bayou to celebrate ‘s completion of coursework for college. It was a fun evening out. I had an Epic Brewing Imperial Stout, along with dinner, a bowl of Gumbo and a bowl of Crawfish Etouffee. The food and the company were both quite good.
Back at home, I called it an early evening. To say that I slept “poorly” would be an understatement. I first woke up – screaming – from a very odd dream around 0100. After managing to get back to sleep, I woke up again, around 0415; this time, it was from a raging heartburn. I set a couple of Tums on the job and drifted off again. When the 0630 alarm went off, I was in the middle of another disturbing dream and was in no mood to get up. 0700 wasn’t much better. At 0725, I decided to drag myself out of bed and start the day.
Here’s a little something to help kick off the morning:
Astronaut’s Brother Recalls a Man Who Dreamed Big
The Engineering Building at North Carolina A&T State University (I attended this school after Purdue) was renamed after Dr. McNair – who had attended A&T – following the Challenger disaster.
When I got there, I met Bill Huntzinger, the manager of the ReStore. He gave me the overview of the store’s mission and told me to get familiar with the place. Twenty or so minutes later, I had the rough lay of the land and went back to find out what Bill wanted me to do. There was a plethora of doors and windows that needed to be sorted and moved into sales areas. That was going to be my job. To that end, I was introduced to Mike, another volunteer and I was put in charge of a group of volunteers from The Bennion Center at the University of Utah: Brandon, Drew, Jason, Ken, and Miguel. The guys were great – I explained what we were doing and they jumped right on it. There wasn’t any “Aw, man… I don’t want to do that” or slacking. A little later Dalton and Blake, a couple more volunteers, as well as Andana and Sam (both from The Bennion Center) joined our merry little band and the work just flew… as did the time.
After the Bennion group left, I worked with Mike, Dalton and Matt (more on him later) to clear out a couple of work areas and sort through some donations. Part of the fun of this was piloting a pallet jack – and I didn’t drop a pallet on anyone’s foot! Part of the “not as fun” was going through some donations from the former Roberts Arts & Crafts Store — there were LOTS of scrapbooking and crafting material. LOTS.
I left the ReStore about 3:30 or so. I had a great time and got to meet a number of interesting – and fun to work with – people. I will definitely be going back there to volunteer… and I won’t be waiting until next year to do so. I would recommend it to anyone.
On the way home, I stopped at The Train Shoppe. I asked about getting an older engine and a boxcar repaired; I’ll be taking them in on Friday to see what can be done. I also managed to walk out without buying anything new. (Besides, it’s only 10 more days until the train show at Thanksgiving Point…)
Last night, after dinner, SaraRules! surprised me with a trip downtown to see the Preservation Hall Jazz Band perform. It was part of the JazzSLC 2010-2011 season. It was a fun – aside from the 10-12 year old kid with a bad case of the fidgets – and a fantastic way to end a good day.
Back at home, I wasn’t quite tired enough to hit the rack, so I played a little LEGO Universe. I completed a couple of missions and also started building my property before calling it a night.
Chew on This: Food for Thought
As I mentioned before, one of the guys I met yesterday was named Matt. His full name is Matt Livermanne. He’s the guiding force behind TransWalk, the Transcontinental Walking Association. Matt became a volunteer at the ReStore after one of his walks (Wendover, NV to Salt Lake City) ended there. He told me stories of some of his encounters while walking – he’s met some really interesting and good people, as well as a few “less than savory” people, including one who got a Super-sized dose of “instant karma” served to him.
If you should find yourself at the ReStore, as either a volunteer or a customer, see if Matt’s there and have him tell you a tale of his travels.
Monday – 27 December 2010
It’s quiet around here. VERY quiet. It’s amazing how “quiet” it is, in fact. I guess that’s just one of the things you notice when you go from having five people in the house to being alone at home.
I had a fantastic Christmas. It was made even better by the fact that I was able to have (most of) my family here — we’re looking at ways to get Kris out here later in the season or this Spring/Summer. We started some new traditions this year (Christmas Eve spaghetti dinner and Christmas morning mimosas) and incorporated some of our favorites as well. The man in the red suit did me a good turn this year; he brought me:
A couple of really nice sweaters
A pair of boots (…which I need to send back because they were both for the right foot)
An overcoat and scarf
A new pair of lounge pants… with the Ravens’ logo on ’em!
A couple of passenger platforms for my railroad
A LEGO Creator set
Buckyballs
A “gift certificate” to Dr. Volt’s or The Train Shoppe (Woo!)
SaraRules! and I got a couple of very nice gifts as a couple, too. So, I can honestly say that I had a very good Christmas this year.
Saturday, before heading to SaraRules!’ parents’ place for dinner, I took the family up to Brighton — I figured that since they had come all this way to visit, the least that I could do was take them for a drive up one of the canyons and let them see the mountains. I think that they were taken aback a bit at how truly “big” the mountains are here. They were also a bit surprised when I told them the elevation.
After the drive, we met up with SaraRules’ side of the family for dinner. We had a magnificent feast with all kinds of foods: brisket, ham, borscht, mixed vegetables, roasted root vegetables, breads, potatoes and more! All of it was wonderfully prepared.
Sunday, we got up and took my folks to Music and the Spoken Word. My mother has mentioned many times that she wanted to see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, but hadn’t been able to get out her to do so. But, with retirement comes time… and, fortunately, we were able to make it in to see this week’s recording.
After the broadcast, we went up to Park City for brunch at Cisero’s. It started to snow shortly after we arrived, but was coming down a little more heavily as we left Park City and headed down Parley’s Canyon. After we got in, we settled in for a relatively quiet afternoon at home. Later in the afternoon, we took my uncle down to the Cathedral of the Madeleine and picked up dinner.
This morning, SaraRules got up for work and I got up to take my family to the airport. It was really nice to have them here for the long weekend; I’m glad that they were able to come out. (Now, I just have to get Kris out here…) We got everyone to their respective flights on time, although I got a call from my mother a little while ago saying that her plane was grounded because of a “mechanical problem.” I’m waiting to see if/when they get boarded on another plane and how that will affect their connection home. My uncle, on the other hand, might not get out of Chicago – or at least not to his home airport – thanks to the snowstorm that hit the northeast over the weekend. We’ll see how everything shakes out.
I need to replace the battery on my MacBook. This one has developed a “bulge.” You know, the “This battery has reached the end of its useful life cycle…” kind.
Friday – 17 December 2010
It’s my 9/80 “on” Friday.
It’s also my last day of work for the year.
With those two things, you’d think that the day would almost qualify as an “NBN Friday.”
Too bad that I spilled my coffee as soon as I got to my desk. *sigh* I made it out of the house, out of the garage, all the way to work, up the elevator and into the office with no problem. But, go to turn the corner at my desk…?
::: SPLASH :::
And I’d only gotten a small sip of the coffee in the elevator. “Some days…,” I tell ya. Hopefully, this will not prove to be a bellwether of the rest of the day. I got the office wet/dry vac and did the best I could to clean Ground Zero. (Fortunately, the carpets are scheduled to be cleaned this weekend.)
Last night, SaraRules! and I had dinner at MacCool’s. As usual, the fare was quite good. We split an order of Finn Skins as an appetizer; she had their Ahi Tuna Sandwich, while I had the Meat Loaf (with a spiced barbecue sauce). And there was Guinness. It was a good dinner and a nice change of pace.
After dinner, I stopped at Dr. Volt’s to pick up my second brick of ‘Clix, the tournament prize pack – gotta have goodies to hand out at tourneys, of course – as well as this week’s four-color paper crack. From there, it was on to Hastur Hobbies for 4th ed. D&D night. Josh, a former coworker, joined the group. We finished out the encounter (and that chapter of the story) without any deaths in our party.
After the game, I headed home to meet SaraRules! and we then headed to the gym:
Leg Raises (Roman Chair): 3 sets/15 reps
Bench Press: 3 sets/8 reps, 155 lbs
Squats: 2 sets/10 reps, ~75 lbs
Row: 2 sets/10 reps, 110 lbs
Push-ups: 2 sets/10 reps
Step-ups: 2 sets/10 reps per leg, with 20 lb dumbbells
Jackknifes: 2 sets/10 reps
And, to finish up the evening we finally finished up this year’s Christmas card.
Stray Toasters
MarknTyme just called me a “pusher.”
All because he:
Is considering getting back into model railroading after we’d talked about it a few times, and
Sunday – 12 December 2010
So far, it’s been a good day. Of course, I just woke up… so, there hasn’t been a lot going on. But, as the commercial says: “The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup waking up,” so I seem to be batting 1.000 so far.
Yesterday was a shopping day. We got a fair portion of Christmas shopping done for members of the family. We also went to Abravanel Hall to see Holiday Celibration with Jerry .
The concert featured Angela Theis and Kate Tombaugh (the two of the Resident Artists from Utah Opera), Karen Brookens (Weber State University Asst. Professor of Music), Brent Reilly Turner (also from Utah Opera), the West Jordan High School Concert Choir and their choral director, Kelly DeHaan. It was a fun concert, with a nice mix of sacred and secular music; among the notable selections:
Angela, Kate and Karen performed a lovely three-part lead to O Come, All Ye Faithful, backed by the choir;
The ladies also sang Handel’s Come Unto Him, from Messiah and a swing version of Up on the Housetop, in the manner of the Andrews Sisters;
Brent performed a sung/spoken rendition of The Polar Express, backed by the choir; and
The soloists performed The Twelve Days After Christmas, which was… different and amusing.
It was a nice way to spend the evening.
Stray Toasters
Thanks to , angstd and MarknTyme for making sure that I saw the LEGO Antikythera.
After watching a few of bravosixxx’ videos, I’m trying to find a way to change up my rail yard. Unfortunately, it appears as though I would need to extend the length of that side of the layout by a couple of feet.
Thursday – 02 December 2010
Three down.
One in the chamber.
One to go.
And that’s how another No Bad News Thursday kicks off.
Last night was D&D Encounters night with Melody, Jack, and company. We were a couple of party members short, so it was a bit of a grind. Seriously. Melody didn’t pull any punches and I think that the characters in the encounter all had brushes with near-death. But, it was still fun.
After I got home, SaraRules! and I watched Sunshine Cleaning. I’d heard about it last year and it has blipped on and off my radar since then. It was a good movie. No big special effects. A simple story. Good acting. All-in-all, a very solid presentation. The movie stars Amy Adams as Rose, a single mother trying to make ends meet. When her situation goes from “bearable, but not great” to “something’s got to give,” Rose decides to change her career path in a somewhat unexpected manner: She opens a crime scene clean-up company. It would be far from the truth to say “Hilarity ensues.” It would be more apt to say “Life goes on… for some.” SaraRules! and I agreed that this was a refreshing change of pace from the quick cut scene, always moving at fast forward, mega-blockbuster movies that are so prevalent today.
Stray Toasters
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Jonathan Coulton’s music. As a home owner, I’ve found new affinity and appreciation for his song, Shop Vac. Apparently, Jarrett Heather is a fan of the song, too… as evidenced by the following kinetic type video:
Tuesday – 23 November 2010
Today is my “Technical Friday,” so it’s “One down, one to go,” as far as this week is concerned.
There is a blizzard warning in effect through 3:00 PM tomorrow. How bad is it predicted to be? Here’s what NOAA has to say about it:
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
BLIZZARD WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
8 AM MST WEDNESDAY.
BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE MOST LIKELY BETWEEN 10PM AND 4AM TONIGHT.
INTENSE SNOWFALL AND WHITEOUT CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AT TIMES
DURING THE TIMEFRAME.
* AFFECTED AREA: THE WESTERN UINTA BASIN
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES ARE EXPECTED
TONIGHT.
* TIMING: THE ARCTIC FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE FROM NORTH TO SOUTH
THROUGH THE AREA LATE THIS EVENING AND THROUGH TONIGHT.
* WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE
LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST
TONIGHT WITH SPEEDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH
LIKELY.
* IMPACTS: A BRIEF PERIOD OF BLIZZARD CONDITIONS TONIGHT
WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS. TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT OR
IMPOSSIBLE AT TIMES TONIGHT.
This is just another sign that SaraRules! and I made the right call in deciding to have Thanksgiving at home this year.
Last night, we watched the Broncos-Chargers game. It looked as though it was going to be interesting… until Denver forgot how to play football. Sure, they had a few moments where it looked like they had glimmers of hope, but they were far and few between.
After the game, we headed to the gym. That’s right: I got in another workout! Once again, we followed SaraRules!’ routine… with added bench press for me:
Bench Press: 3 sets/8 reps, 135 lbs
Squats: 2 set/12 reps, 65 lbs
Push-ups: 2 sets/12 reps
Row: 2 sets/12 reps, 110 lbs
Step-ups: 2 sets/12 reps per leg, 15 lbs dumbbells in each hand
“Jackknife”: 2 sets/12 reps
All-in-all, it was a good workout.
Stray Toasters
I managed to squeeze in a little time to play with my model railroad last night. I also think that I’ve come up with another layout idea. In theory – and in my head – it would both spread out the layout and afford some neat options that might even include a bridge or two.
Wednesday – 17 November 2010
Midweek… which means that it’s Comics (and Sushi) Wednesday!
I’m not sure if I’m partaking of sushi today. We’ll see how the morning progresses.
Last night was D&D night with and company. We met a new NPC. We’re not sure about him yet. There are a few signs that he may not be “a good fit” for the rest of the party. We’re keeping an eye on him. On the other hand, he does provide another pair of hands and weapons in a fight. That’s good, because our current quest has us in the ruins of what appears to be an old temple… complete with its very own horde of zombies. Yay.
Today, we’re having our furnace replaced!
Out with the old and busted.
In with the new hotness… literally.
Stray Toasters
The first trailer for the upcoming Green Lantern movie was released yesterday:
This looks a lot better than the “first footage” that came out last week. I’m still a little unsure about the mask, but feel a bit more confident about the overall look and feel of the movie.
The whole “turn the world backwards” was a visual device. They used it to signify Superman flying back in time, a power that he’d been shown using – as both Superman and Superboy – since at least the late 50’s.
The “amnesia kiss” was something that director Richard Lester used after Superman director, Richard Donner, was fired from Superman II; Donner shot some scenes for both Superman and Superman II concurrently. In the “Richard Donner Cut” of Superman II, it shows Superman flying back in time (again) to erase Lois’ memory… not using some cockamamie “amnesia kiss power” to make her forget.
This is some rather sage advice from a former coworker of mine.
(If the page won’t display for you, let me know and I’ll find a way to either transcribe or repost the picture.)
Monday – 15 November 2010
Another work week begins…
This weekend was a good one. Saturday, I went back to the train show and made up for the deal I lost out on Friday by picking up some switches, a crossing grade and some assorted track pieces for a really good deal. There was some damage to a few of the pieces, but nothing insurmountable.
Saturday night, SaraRules! and I went to Oz with Orchestra, as performed by Utah Symphony. As SaraRules had to “…play P.R. Girl,” as she put it (read: “sit with Jeff, a photographer from Riester“), we got to sit in Maurice Abravanel’s box seats… which put us directly above and behind the First Violin section. From this vantage point, we not only had a good view of the movie screen, but we could also read the sheet music of the vilolinists (and some of the bass players), as well. While the orchestral accompaniment did lose the tempo a couple of times, Associate Conductor David Cho did an excellent job of leading the symphony and getting them back on track. The overall experience was a lot of fun. And, as an added bonus: David Cho proposed to his then-girlfriend during intermission – she said, “Yes” – so, congratulations to him!
Sunday was pretty relaxed. We started the morning with breakfast at Ruth’s Diner. We also ran into Sanaz’ parents while there. Next, I headed back to Chris’ to (FINALLY!) finish his PS3 hard drive upgrade. Fait accompli. Back home for a little time with the trains and then on to the in-laws’ for a belated birthday dinner for SaraRules! and football.
I don’t know whether or not it was because of the beat-down they took from the Browns last week, but Tom Brady and the Pats manhandled the Steelers last night. BIG time, shutting them down on both sides of the ball.
And it doesn’t hurt that the Steelers’ loss helps keep the Ravens atop the AFC North, either.
Tuesday – 09 November 2010
Another day that started with flurries.
Welcome to mid-Autumn in Utah.
They’ve stopped… for now.
It’s also “Take a Model Train to Work” Day. So, I brought in my LEGO train:
Today, we have a “meet and greet” with our company’s new president. I’ve seen him walking around the office a few times; I’m curious to hear what he has to say about his vision for leading the company.
Last night, , Nathan and Wes came over for Monday Night Football. Wes…. is a Steelers fan. I didn’t discover this until recently. I think I still like him, despite such a major personality flaw.
After the game, I did a little more work on my Signal Tower – it’s probably 90-95% complete, aside from some trim and accessories.
The Steelers traveled to Cincy to take on the Bengals in a division rivalry game.The boys from Pittsburgh looked like they came to play ball.
The Bengals looked like they suited up a junior high JV team… and a poor one, at that.
The first half of the game was “All Steelers, all the time.” Period.
Somewhere in the third quarter, the Bengals put some actual NFL players in the jerseys and played some good football – coming within a six points of the Steelers – but the Steelers were able to hold on and keep the Bengals out of the end zone during their end-of-game drive.
Sorry and … I was actually hoping that the Bengals would pull off the upset.
Stray Toasters
It’s a suit day: Grey suit, white shirt, red/black/grey/gold deco tie. Aw, yeah…
