Sunday – 28 November 2010
It’s been a good weekend. After five days off, I’ll be sad to see it end tomorrow.

Thanksgiving was good and it was a lot of fun. We had lots of good food and the wonderful company of family and friends. And, there was football, to boot.

Friday was pretty low-key. We slept in – and stayed in – to avoid the early bird shoppers. It worked pretty well. We ventured out in the afternoon and found some crowds, but nothing insurmountable. We also took in a movie: Faster. It was a pretty good revenge film. The action started about five to ten minutes into the movie. A little while after the movie, we hit the gym:

  • Bench Press: 3 sets/10 reps, 135 lbs
  • Lat pulldowns: 3 sets/10 reps, 100 lbs
  • Shoulder Press: 3 sets/10 reps, 35 lbs
  • Lunges (10 lbs/hand): 2 sets, 12 reps/leg
  • Crunches: 2 sets/15 reps

There may have been something else, but I don’t recall at the moment. Either way, I’ve been enjoying being back in the gym.

After the gym (and a shower), it was off to meet the usual suspects for Clitorati.

Saturday, we did a little more shopping. This time, we went in search of this year’s Christmas ornament… and we came home with two: We found a nice snowflake-shaped one for our family ornament and I found a B&O Railroad locomotive ornament. (Oh, come on… it’s train-related AND it’s B&O. Did you really expect me to pass it up?!)

Post-shopping, and I headed up to Ogden. We had a plan to head up to The Wonderful World of Trains. On the way, I remembered that I’d heard of another shop a little north of WWoT and figured that we should kill two birds with one stone. Unfortunately, the second shop was out of business. At Wonderful World, we both found “a few” things that we liked. I wound up picking up a few more track sections and two sets of #65 Yard Lights. and a couple of unlighted Grade Crossings. (By the way: The lights in the rail yard look good.)

Stray Toasters

  • I watched the premieres of Cartoon Network’s Firebreather and Young Justice over the weekend. Both were good, with YJ edging out Firebreather, in my book.  I’ll cover them (hopefully) this week in Four-Color Coverage.

  • Paul Winfield and Lance Henriksen look so… young… in The Terminator.
  • Songs We Love: Going Postal
  • Rachel sent me a link to this, which made me laugh (click for larger image):

  • 8 superpowers that would make everyday life awesome
  • From the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot…?!” file: Carstache
  • The Lionel.com website has a ColdFusion back end.  Huh.
    • In a related note, I had an issue and needed help from Lionel’s customer service last week. It required a couple of exchanges of email, but they handled the problem quickly and courteously.
  • Flacco, Mason Go At It Wednesday
    I like Byrne’s ideas of how their “conversation” went , but I really like the exchange between former coach Brian Billick and his offensive line coach, Jim Colletto.
  • The Train Lady

I should get ready; Chris is coming over shortly.  We’re either playing ‘Clix or HALO:Reach.

Namaste.