The last week or so, I’ve been strangely obsessed with collecting these metal Thomas the Tank Engine toys from Vince’s childhood. I have about 20 of these, well worn from Vince’s continuous play during the years from 2004-2006? And I started buying more from ebay because they stopped making them in 2009 or so. Yesterday, I wondered if anyone had compiled a list of the complete collection and – yes! someone did. This is what the internet is good for. (omg – the internet is so bad these days. so bad, so hard to use, so easy to be scammed, ads left and right. it’s so hard to have lived through the golden years of the internets and see it just…turn into the slop that it is today) So I lined up all my trains and accounted for them. This is a good collection – finite in scope (less than 200), the items are old, but not too old (no lead in these toys) and they made a bajillion of them, so each can be bought on ebay for about $10, probably less than they charged when they were originally for sale (counting for inflation).
Jeremy was in Kansas City for two nights – one day. He came home late last night, it was only when he was at the Kansas City airport on the way home that he realized that he was flying into Dulles and not National – which was the airport he flew out of and where the car was parked. Doh! So he took an Uber from Dulles to National and picked up the car and came home. Elka, the good dog that she is, jumped up with alacrity when she heard rustling downstairs.
