Chrissy and I sat in line to meet Peter Cullen today. He signed my Hard Hero bust of Optimus Prime three times: once on the box, once on the front of the statue, and once on the back of the statue (because he screwed up the signature on the front). And then the silver ink didn’t dry very quickly, so I managed to put my thumb...
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The Dealer Room opened to registered guests today from 2 PM to 5 PM. I seem to have spent way too much money. I didn’t have any Headmasters or Targetmasters, so I went out hunting for deals on those figures. I got a bunch of Pretender robots for a dollar each, but a couple of them are missing feet (what did you expect for a...
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Chrissy and I drove down to Lexington, Kentucky for Botcon 2006. I signed Chrissy up for the Primus package, so we needed to get to the Lexington Convention Center by 8 PM to pick up our exclusive figures. We both got the box set and the two exclusive sets: Megatron/Waspinator and Laserbeak/Buzzsaw. As a freebie for attending, they...
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Images from the TF movie are leaking out, and it has become very plain why it will be a disappointment. As cool as it would have been to have seen real cars turn into real robots that look and talk like the characters from my favorite childhood cartoon, that is how much it will suck when this does not happen. For example, here is...
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I had always heard that new babies bring a terrible lack of sleep to your life. I can’t imagine why that would be, since I sleep through the night like a, um, baby. Unfortunately, Chrissy doesn’t get that luxury. Aiden has been waking up hungry from his near-constant napping every three hours or so, even when everyone...
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I knew that I would need to open some of my mint-in-package Transformers if they were all going to fit on the oak display shelves, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Chrissy, however, has no such problems… Rip, tear, and devalue. She loves it. I’ll get the ones in the bigger boxes, since she’s still...
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It has been a week since Aiden has come home, and I feel like I’ve survived the trial by fire. Prior to Aiden’s birth, I very rarely even held a baby. I had fed a baby once (Chip’s son, Ryan), but I had never successfully burped a baby (Ryan refused to budge). I didn’t even like being in the same room as a...
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My good friend Chip had triplets about five months back, and of the three there was a very small little girl named Lauren. Lauren unfortunately had heart problems that required several surgeries, at least one of which only offered a 50% chance of survival. She had a few other health problems as well, and had to be fed through a tube...
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