Friday
I got home around 1:00 AM.
For the first time since 10:00 Friday morning.
I’ve been out and about all day… and it was great.

I started out with breakfast at one of the local IHoP restaurants with , her husband and one of their sons. It was nice. The food wasn’t bad and the company was good.

From there, I was off to pick up Perry and Max. I gave Perry the copy of Green Lantern: Rebirth #2 that I picked up for him and he gave me a bunch of his extra Heroclix figures (and a CD with miscellaneous gaming stuff). We went on a tour of some of the city’s gaming shops. We also hit The Gateway – Perry had never been there. On the way back to their house, we wound up sitting on the Great Salt Lake Parking Lot (or “I-15,” as it is more commonly known). Utah drivers. I love it when it takes a half-hour to go less than five miles.

I picked up and we headed off to Friday night coffee. We had a good-sized crowd tonight: , , , , , Perry, Max, Steve, Leah and myself.

And ! This is the first time that she’s been back behind the Zion Curtain and, if I remember correctly, the first time that I’ve seen her since “The Great Moving Trailer Load-Up of 2004,” this past summer. And, even after ALL of that, she wouldn’t let me tackle her when I saw her. (A Special Merit Award goes to for setting up a pretty solid body block just before I got to , too.)

We had good – and typically strange – conversations over coffee, tea and other beverages. Most of tonight’s group might be getting together for 2-D Physics tomorrow night, too.

News
Morning Edition: Preacher Arrested in 40-Year Old Murder Case
Talk of the Nation: Deflecting Near-Earth Space Hazards
All Things Considered: Rethinking the Word ‘Jihad’

Stray Toasters

  • Thanks to Perry, I have the Heroclix counterparts of the Teen Titans, both the Cartoon Network and the long-running New Teen Titans lineup: Changeling/Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, Robin and Starfire.
  • LEGO® case mods
  • A friend on IRC showed me a URL for Akiane, a child prodigy. She paints and writes poetry. And all that I can say about her work is “Wow.”
  • Neil Gaiman’s Mirrormask is set to premiere at Sundance this year. I would like to see it. I should probably see if there are any tickets available for it.
  • And speaking of Mr. Gaiman, I have no idea to whom I loaned my copy of Smoke and Mirrors. And I’m wanting to read it again. Although, in the meantime, I am enjoying the book that sent me: made in america: an informal history of the English language in the United States
  • Stardust for All Ages – Broken Frontier’s take on Stardust Kid
  • Jeph Loeb on his plans for the summer debuting Supergirl series
    Although this picture, by Michael Turner, still shows her with the Torso of Doom©, Ian Churchhill will be the regular artist on the title.
  • From Something Awful’s “Photoshop Phriday” – Mechs in Art
  • Does anyone else remember NPR’s Schickele Mix, hosted by Peter Schickele (also of P.D.Q. Bach fame)?
  • A Knight’s Tale. I never saw the movie, but for those of you who did, would it be fairly safe to say that it could have been renamed 2 Medieval 2 Furious?

Namaste.