Betrayal in Berlin
Nov. 8th, 2020 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7Biden won. There's been the expected screeching about fraud and lawsuits and everything else, but only the most reality-adverse are giving that any credence. I know that the orange bastard is a symptom, not the disease, and there's a daunting amount of work to be done, but today, I'm just glad that the time of seeing and hearing and reading a hateful awful man's blathering is coming to an end.
Holiday gamer attrition has already started, so no DG session Friday night. Went to Heroes and played X-Wing instead, and had a good time. My Imperial squadron got clobbered, but my First Order pilots were successful. This was the first time I'd been there on a Friday night since the lockdown. Not many people there, one RPG table and some folks playing another minis game, and consciously or not, all three groups put as space between themselves as possible.
Since visiting the National Museum of Transportation last month, the low-level desire for a steam locomotive has gotten stronger. I've watched Walthers and a few other places, and was ready to pull the trigger a couple of times. I knew what I really wanted to add to my roster, and the models I put in various shopping carts were nice, but not what I wanted. After M&M, I decided to head over to Roundhouse, more looking for a similarly specific diesel. But there it was, in one of the display cases at the front of the store. New old stock, a DC-only C&O Kanawha. Got it onto the store's test track for a few minutes, and I was had. It's a solid runner, plenty of pulling power, just like its prototype. Out of place? Definitely. Don't care. My railroad.
This looks like a quiet week. At some point, I'll have to rake up a yard full of leaves, or just chop them into powder with the mower - heck knows it won't get done otherwise.
Holiday gamer attrition has already started, so no DG session Friday night. Went to Heroes and played X-Wing instead, and had a good time. My Imperial squadron got clobbered, but my First Order pilots were successful. This was the first time I'd been there on a Friday night since the lockdown. Not many people there, one RPG table and some folks playing another minis game, and consciously or not, all three groups put as space between themselves as possible.
Since visiting the National Museum of Transportation last month, the low-level desire for a steam locomotive has gotten stronger. I've watched Walthers and a few other places, and was ready to pull the trigger a couple of times. I knew what I really wanted to add to my roster, and the models I put in various shopping carts were nice, but not what I wanted. After M&M, I decided to head over to Roundhouse, more looking for a similarly specific diesel. But there it was, in one of the display cases at the front of the store. New old stock, a DC-only C&O Kanawha. Got it onto the store's test track for a few minutes, and I was had. It's a solid runner, plenty of pulling power, just like its prototype. Out of place? Definitely. Don't care. My railroad.
This looks like a quiet week. At some point, I'll have to rake up a yard full of leaves, or just chop them into powder with the mower - heck knows it won't get done otherwise.