Weekend update

Spent Friday night at the dojo taking pictures. I took some pretty good ones and I'll post them to flickr sometime soon. Worked with a couple of them and added a little spice to the dojo web page.

Watched Deathtrap after getting home from the dojo.

Saturday morning saw us at the seminar for "Legal Aspects of Self-Defense". Small turnout, but a pretty good seminar.

Saturday evening we went to a local Italian restaurant to celebrate some birthdays. at the end of the meal we had a chocolate tasting. We had around 13 chocolates to sample and rate. I'll post the names and the results soon.

Sunday was spent mostly in the yard. I weed-whacked all of the curb edges and then mowed the lawn. I think about 2 or 3 hours all totalled.

Ran some errands and put away the Imperial Star Destroyer Lego set. It's safely ensconced in its box.

Now if only I'd slept well at some point over the weekend.

Star Destroyer, destroyed

My dear wife gave me a Lego Imperial Star Destroyer kit several years ago. We spent many hours working on it together.

There was just one problem with it. It's huge. It requires a space about 3'x3'x2' to be displayed. There's just one space in our house where it could fit comfortable: the dining room table. Yes, that location has issues. Who wants to eat dinner with something that could tractor beam your mashed potatoes off of your plate. Not me. Not Kim.

After a couple of months of moving from place to place in the house, it was start to lose some of its integrity. Pieces were falling off and getting chewed on by the animals. I had to disassemble it.

It took a couple of hours, but all of the pieces are in ziploc bags. I don't know if we've got all of them, if we didn't, it's some of the little decorative pieces. The structural pieces should all be there. I don't know if we'll ever put it together again. If we do, I'll have to make a display case in the new shop for it.

That and the Rebel Blockade Runner that I have yet to assemble. Apparently the kit is out of production.