Weekends
*cough cough*... man, lots of dust on this here blog! For some reason I'm feeling kinda bloggy tonight. Don't know why. Well, I might as well take advantage of that feeling and write something.
Last weekend I went to the Emerald City Comicon, which was pretty cool. Even cooler, I went on Amazon's dime (they figured it'd be a good place to try to find prospective employees). Even cooler than THAT was that Anastasia went, too. I'll nerd-ify her yet! Ah, good times.
You know, I'm sure I did something else cool that weekend, but I don't recall right now what that was. I think I mostly just played a lot of Batman: Arkham Asylum (yeah, I'm a little behind there).
This weekend I was on my own since A was in Ohio for Easter. Well, not TOTALLY on my own since I had to watch her little dogs. Since I couldn't leave the little monsters on their own for too long, I didn't go out and do much. I got caught up on the last half of the recent season of Spartacus: Vengeance, took advantage of some scarce Seattle sun to mow the lawn, and finally watched The Green Mile.
Sunday was the fun part... my annual Easter pilgrimage to the Museum of Flight. There was some neat new stuff since the last time I was there. There's a big old B-29 that they've been restoring, and they recently rolled it out so it's on display... kind of. It's totally covered in white plastic to protect it from the weather, like this (except there's no big red bow and the plastic now covers the wheels... this pic is from the museum's website):
The other new thing is that they've opened the new building that was built to house a space shuttle, if they got one. Well, no shuttle for Seattle, but they're getting a full-sized shuttle training simulator this summer instead. The building doesn't have any permanent exhibits in it yet, but it was neat to see the temporary planning stuff that they're using to lay out the new exhibits. Oh, and they've got an actual Soyuz capsule in there, too. Pretty neat stuff!
Last weekend I went to the Emerald City Comicon, which was pretty cool. Even cooler, I went on Amazon's dime (they figured it'd be a good place to try to find prospective employees). Even cooler than THAT was that Anastasia went, too. I'll nerd-ify her yet! Ah, good times.
You know, I'm sure I did something else cool that weekend, but I don't recall right now what that was. I think I mostly just played a lot of Batman: Arkham Asylum (yeah, I'm a little behind there).
This weekend I was on my own since A was in Ohio for Easter. Well, not TOTALLY on my own since I had to watch her little dogs. Since I couldn't leave the little monsters on their own for too long, I didn't go out and do much. I got caught up on the last half of the recent season of Spartacus: Vengeance, took advantage of some scarce Seattle sun to mow the lawn, and finally watched The Green Mile.
Sunday was the fun part... my annual Easter pilgrimage to the Museum of Flight. There was some neat new stuff since the last time I was there. There's a big old B-29 that they've been restoring, and they recently rolled it out so it's on display... kind of. It's totally covered in white plastic to protect it from the weather, like this (except there's no big red bow and the plastic now covers the wheels... this pic is from the museum's website):
The other new thing is that they've opened the new building that was built to house a space shuttle, if they got one. Well, no shuttle for Seattle, but they're getting a full-sized shuttle training simulator this summer instead. The building doesn't have any permanent exhibits in it yet, but it was neat to see the temporary planning stuff that they're using to lay out the new exhibits. Oh, and they've got an actual Soyuz capsule in there, too. Pretty neat stuff!