Friday – 03 December 2010
It’s Friday.
Thank God.
“Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.”

It’s my 9/80 “on” Friday, so I – and a few others – are in the ghost town that we call an office today. As one of the others is Paul, I got to start off the morning talking about model railroads and some ideas I have for what is becoming known as “The Train Room” in the basement.

Last night, SaraRules! and I rented kids for the evening. Kate and Perry were having an evening out and asked us if we’d mind watching their kids. As usual, the kids were fine. We popped in The Iron Giant – which I always enjoy – at the request of the youngest child and they watched that (and Transformers Prime) until it was time for bed. Getting them into pajamas, teeth brushed, and off to bed was a breeze. After the kids were abed, SaraRules! and I watched Fringe and then a couple of episodes of Renovation Realities.

Chew on This: Food for Thought
I’ve had a couple of thoughts running through my head for the past few days:

  • You have no one to blame for your unhappiness but yourself.
  • You only get out of life what you are prepared to put into it.

It seems that so many people are unhappy/dissatisfied with Situation X or Thing Y in their lives, but seem unwilling to actually do anything about it. And then, they seem… surprised… that the issue doesn’t just auto-magically fix itself.

That’s unfortunate.

Stray Toasters

  • The inversion has set in, heavily, across the valley.  I hope that the forecasts of rain over the weekend were correct.
  • What Is the Best Superman Origin Story?
    I actually agree with both of his choices here.
  • WorldWorksGames has come out with some amazing looking new sets in their TerrainLinx line. Case in point: Hinterland Forests
  • I received the latest addition to my train yesterday: Lionel 6-7612 Spirit of 76 North Carolina Boxcar

  • Chuck Norris fact: He’s now an honorary Texas Ranger
  • During yesterday’s comics run, I also picked up a new member for my Sinestro Corps shelf: Mongul

    At 9″ tall, he’s a good head to head-and-a-half taller than the other figures.

That should be good enough for now.

Namaste.