I swear this is not Tom's Blog

Got up this morning and found this on the patio at my parents place.

After breakfast and conversation, we headed to White Samon/Bingem to see where my mom works. Afterwards we went to the Huckelberry Festival. I was disapointed in the lack of Huckelberries at their own festival. Just one booth with Pie and T-shirts. We went across the way to Solstace Pizza for some really good pizza with salmon and Sour Creame. Was much better than it sounds. Stopped at Dickey's fruit stand to get some Peaches for Mom and some Huckelberries for Q.

Headed home while stopping at many Wal-Marts (exclusive Lego set), Targets (JLU figures) and Best Buy (gift for Mom).

Traded Huckelberries for an invite to the Nelson family dinner.

Played some Mass Effect and watched Skins.

Catching up on some trades from the last two weeks...

And the Sky was Full of Stars

Made the long trek to Oregon to spend the weekend with the 'rents.

Things I noticed on the trip:
- The Great Wolf Lodge is new and HUGE. The water slide looks fun.
- Centralia has really boomed West of the freeway. When I lived there there wasn't crap to do one the West side.
- There are a crap load of different Energy Drinks (3 refrigerator cases) for sale but no one carries Barqs.

Spent some time fixing the entertainment components. DVDs now in 5.1 Your welcome Mom.

I have NO cell service at all but they do have a wi-fi connection so I can still send this missive to Blogger. Is strange being disconnected from world, not that anyone ever calls me. :)

Watched Definitely Maybe. A little slow and cutesy but overall a good flick.

More things I forgot to mention... Started Wolverine: Lifeblood on Tuesday. Good story but not tied into continuity at all. It is if Wolverine had never joined the Xmen. Plus he had claws in WWII. Also watched The Perfect Storm on the plane on Wednesday.

Come in to my World

Got up way to early to help in the falling apart plant. Determined that it was not my fault and helped them find the culprit.

Changed the oil in the car.

Played a bunch of Mass Effect.

Cleaned up while watching Eragon (kind of ass) and Stargate Atlantis. In the cleaning I hooked up the cable box again and watched the end of BloodCopy. Now ready to watch Tru Blood.

Spent some time flipping through the onDemand videos to find a really cool one that I saw in Atlanta. Found it and will post on main blog when I get a chance.

Forgot to mention watching the Avengers Next DVD on Tuesday. Some cool stuff but overall I felt it scued a bit young for me... But then I am really old.

Comic Thursday

Sideview of cake from yesterday. Had to head out to a things falling apart call at work...

Comic Thursday :)

Watched Primeval and Mad Men.

Played some Mass Effect.

Just read comics and went to bed early for early am trip to falling apart plant...

Back in the office

First time back in the office in about two weeks and there was cake. Not for me being back but just in general. The awesomeness was that it was shaped like a hamburger and fries.

Non-comic wednesday :(

Watched the first episode of the final season of the Shield and the latest Skins.

Played some Team Fortress II with the guys.

Dragon Slain

Returned home on AirTran (still a real airline) Was almost late. Picked up by Jim. Had some Red Robin. Picked up comics from last week. Watched Middleman and went to bed early.

Live from the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree

It seems like every street in Atlanta is named Peachtree. As you can tell they even meet up sometimes.

Today was the final day of DragonCon. I did not have much work to do so I was able to spend some time exploring the con rooms. Overall I was kind of disapointed. There was not much going on. I guess panels and side events are what make Dragon special...

After the con, Froggy took is all out to dinner. The Sushi was very good. Afterwords we went to the bar in the Hyatt and bs'ed until the bar closed. Heard an interesting story about the hottie from yesterday.

Had an other interesting cab ride back to the hotel. Turns out our cabby was drunk off his ass and weaving all over the road but I failed to notice since I was behind the driver and talking with th girls... Afterward they told me and I kind of freaked out. I so wish that I had known so that I could have gotten the cab number. I hope he did not hurt anyone.