Train delays

The past two months have been pretty fargin busy. I'm waiting for some 1:48 scale parking meters and a little fat guy with polka-dotted shorts to show up so I can start filming the layout, and I will post a video that will blow your mind. In my head, it's actually already done, if that makes any sense.

Meanwhile, I switched into a new group at work (not by choice). I also conquered two piano projects; one I started in 2003 that required all the brains I could muster: I learned Chopin's Waltz in C# minor (Opus 64, #2). Not bad considering I have the sight-reading skills of a 10 year old. And Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road. Great piano there. Simultaneously, I ran 51 auctions on Ebay to unload a bunch of crap I bought on, er, Ebay.

And I got my hands on one of the rarest tin cars ever made by the Japanese. For most of you, this is meaningless. But for the handful of you who know how I foam at the mouth over vintage tin toy cars, feast your eyes on this 16.5''-long creampuff: a 1953 Packard Patrician in really nice original condition. I have been searching for this car for a decade, and I've been told there may be fewer than 20 of these in existence.