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How was your weekend?
I thought it was going to rain here, so I was looking forward to futzing around on the computer and drinking coffee all weekend. Sadly, it didn't rain, which made for a fairly busy weekend.
Saturday we repainted some peeling wood trim on the front of our house. Katy had considered paying somebody to paint it for us but in the end my legendary value-mindedness won the day. We spent most of the day scraping, sanding, priming, painting, and painting the front trim on the house. It does look an awful lot better.
Yesterday Cameron and I accompanied my father-in-law, Jim, to a model train show that he had heard about. Cameron had a good time checking out the layouts, and had some specific requests for the train set he wants "when he is old enough." (It must include both a tanker car and a crane car. I think I have both in my old HO-gauge stuff.) Jim was looking for some specific track pieces but he didn't find quite what he wanted, so we left without much fanfare after about an hour of browsing.
Let me just say, there's no geek like a model train geek - except maybe old-school morse code ham radio "enthusiasts." (These two groups undoubtedly have a fair amount of overlap.) There were an whole lot of people with tables set up, selling an whole lot of train engines, cars, and track, for what seemed like a whole lot of money to me. I suppose we all have our hobbies.
When we got home I made a nice beef stew for dinner while the family watched Finding Nemo. I like the cooler weather - I get to cook the things I like. Just last weekend I made The Inaugural Pizza of the 2003-2004 Baking Season - a nice sausage, onion, and green pepper deep-dish, with homemade crust!
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haha. My father-in-law was a "ham radio enthusiast" back in the day, had his own tower in the backyard and everything. I don't know about the morse code part though, I try not to ask too many questions about it. That's kinda like asking The Hubby to explain something about programming, it only ends with more questions, which leads to a Complete History of the Computer. :-)
You are wise to avoid this line of discussion.
As far as morse code goes, it used to be part of the ham radio licensing test, so your father-in-law is probably well versed in it. You can only imagine the furor that ran through the community when they removed that section from the test a few years back. Oh, the humanity!