Yesterday was terrific. Terrific!

Back home after Christmas holidays, the cats were eager to see us and never left us alone all day. The remaining Christmas presents for <lj-user="Kirilaw'> arrived, so she now has her USB Ravage (may I just say how awesome a job Takara-Tomy did on that one!) and the Skeletor t-shirt. I also finished up the Diamond set of statues with the missing Galvatron so I now have all the original releases as well as a good portion of the variants. And I received the Fan Productions add-on missile and gun set for Ultra Magnus to make him more Gee-Won! The man has four guns! Don't mess with Magnus!

Then we went to Burger King and hit the dirty Comic Book Shoppe out in Merivale, where, as Kirilaw says, I made the sound. The sound is basically an excited "meep" that I make when I see a new thang, usually a toy, that gets me all excited. In this case it was sweet Bludgeon. One in store, overpriced at $39.99, and mine now! Woot! I also finally used my winnings from the Halloween competition at the other store and grabbed the strangely alluring Movie 1 Nightwatch Optimus Prime, while loading up on recent issues of Blackest Night (man there is a lot going on there, not all of it good and I have no idea how they are going to right things again), G.I.Joe (including the "I didn't think it would be released but there it is and it is brilliant" IDW reissue of Marvel's run from 51-60 in corrected colours) and Transformers.

Segway, I liked the new Transformers issue #1's story despite the art but I didn't like #2. I liked the art in Bumblebee and the story is interesting, but Bumblebee as leader? That's something I didn't think I'd see. And I was disappointed that the badges were not flat black rub symbol plates. THAT would have been cool. Cooler than how they ended up looking. However, I love that Ratchet's head is red like the old Marvel days.

Little more shopping at Best Buy and then home, to play Raiden IV, read a pile of the comics, and watched back-to-back Season One Torchwood episodes over hummus and vegetables. I also started the repainting of my nephew's Movie 1 Legends Bumblebee, scrubbing the paint off in preparation of a transformation into Pointblank (to match the finished transformation of Legends Jazz into Nightbeat).

Today is breakfast with c-dawg so some cleaning is needed. But I couldn't wait to share the news that, the pictured noted in my <a href="http://twitter.com/fairplaythings">twitter feed</a> under consideration for online publication, was <a href="http://www.schmap.com/losangeles/toppicks_attractions/#r=none&mapview=Map&tab=Places&p=48773&topleft=35.0255,-119.10004&bottomright=32.85652,-117.55646&i=48773_97.jpg">published here as the Tar Pits link</a>. Brilliant!

Now to shower.