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Had a pretty nice weekend.

Friday we went to see a couple movies with

romeoa. First was Inside Man. Interesting movie, but really crappy musical score. It was so bad that it became distracting. Second movie was Ice Age 2. Fun enough movie, but it felt like many different short movies put into one. It didn't have a cohesive feel to the story. Of course, the Scrat is the funniest part of the movie, and it never even interacts with the other characters.

I brought home work's new Canon EF 17-40mm Ultra Wide Angle Zoom lens for the weekend, so I made sure to get some pictures of our Saturday morning playtime with the dogs on the newly de-snowed from yard. Then I played with the new lens again when we went over to Don & Dan's for game day. I thought that it would be interesting to get pictures of the lake behind their house before all the foliage had grown back. Usually you can barely see the lake. The pictures are ok, if you like bare branches and dry reeds. Though I did find a interesting little garden sculpture in their yard. Turns out Don made this back in seventh grade. I'm calling it Little Metal Head, not to be confused with

bigstonehead. (See new icons pics below.)

The rest of Saturday I just played games at Don and Dan's, while Joe went over to the MISFIT Trivia thingy for a while, and FINALLY got us registered for CONvergence.

Sunday didn't go as planned at all. The missing hour kind of sucked. Then Joe got called into work because of the time change not working correctly on some of the systems. So I went into the gym and did my Monday Arms & Back workout since I'm going to be busy this afternoon with Kinney's Oncology appointment. We had planned to go out to a Home Remodeling Expo, but

cleo and

romeoa scouted ahead for us and reported back that it sucked. Instead we joined them at the fancy Edina Perkins for lunch. It was really nice to visit with them again. It's great to see them when they're both feeling outgoing.

After lunch, Joe and I shopped at Target for a while. Among the usual supplies, we spent a bit of time looking at Yoga mats. They had some ok ones there, but I felt the need to look around a bit more. After Target Joe was feeling tired, so I drop him off at home, and went on to shop at REI for a bit looking for Yoga mats. I couldn't find them anywhere, but thanks to

bitbear and his husband, who I ran into on the way out, they pointed out where the mats are. Sadly, its the same mats that Target carries.

I was going to go look at Sports Mart next, but I got distracted by Best Buy. I walked into Best Buy where I spotted a huge pile of X-BOX 360's. I was SOOOOOO tempted to buy one, but I finally realized it wasn't a good use of $600 (System, game, wifi-adapter, extra controller). Instead I went over to the PC game area and finally bought SIMS 2.

I spent the rest of the night playing SIMS 2. (See next post about my SIMS 2 experience).