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  1. Mysterious Minifig
    ... hasn't happened yet.
     
    So I spent about two and a half hours last night planning next Monday's Court of Honor. This is going to one of the longest and most epic court of honors my troop has ever done. The fact that it fall on the exact 100th Anniversary of Scouting in America only adds to the fact.
     
    We're going to have a bunch of different displays of old Scouting memorabilia. One of the assistant scout masters is going to be bringing in his boy scout book collection, every edition except the first. There's also going to be a lot of other stuff.
     
    We're going to got through the time line and how the ranks and merit badges have changed over the years. We're also going to have a cake at the very end.
     
    This is going to be one epic court of honor.
     

  2. Mysterious Minifig
    Not that you can really tell anything from it, which is the point. Still, it's better then my old Al260 Brick Game picture.
    You can blame my sister for the duct tape, she's the one who almost took the mirror off.

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    Cold!

    By Mysterious Minifig,

    After being the high 30's for the last week it has finally cooled down again and is hovering around zero outside. The windchill really isn't helping either.
     
    I've also come to the conclusion that I've been stressing out way too much over the two papers that are going to be due soon. That being said I won't be on too much for a while as I going to be devoting more time to school matters. I'll still be on here to make ocasional posts, but not as much browsing as previously.
     
    -Michigan J. Frog
  5. Mysterious Minifig
    Turns out there was a break in my premier membership. I got reactivated now though. So I'm back with Lifetime.
     
    No more worrying about premier ending dates. Now I just need to worry about the end of the site.
     
    My name is also going to get changed back pretty soon. I'm not sure just when though.
     
    -Michigan J. Frog
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    For some reason I'm still Premier. Maybe this means there won't be any breaks between the the one year I got last year and the lifetime I just sent the money for.
     
    On Sunday I'll be able to change my name again. I'm not sure if I want to though. I'm begginning to like Michigan J. Frog.
     
    -Michigan J. Frog
     
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    Two Weeks

    By Mysterious Minifig,

    About two weeks until my my premier membership runs out. I want to renew but I also want to get some more LEGO sets. My trip to the Jamboree is also trying to get my money too.
     
    So many choices and so little money.
     
    -Michigan J. Frog
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    Blue Moon

    By Mysterious Minifig,

    I thought people might want to know. Tomorrow is the first blue moon on New Years Eve since 1990.
     
    Go out and take a look since it only happens once in a blue moon.
     
    -Michigan J. Frog
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    Crazy

    By Mysterious Minifig,

    This week and next week I'm going to be working almost 50 hours.
     
    The good news is that my trip to the National Boy Scout Jamboree will be payed off by the end of January. The bad news I'm not sure how many more 8 hour days I can survive.
     
    -Michigan J. Frog
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    Christmas Eve

    By Mysterious Minifig,

    Merry Christmas Everyone, I hope you have good holiday.
     
    Right now my location is expected to get close to a record snowfall. It's going to be a very white Christmas.
     
    -Michigan J. Frog
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    Where I live the forecast for Christmas Eve is between 8 and 12 inches of snow. Yeah, It's probably going to be a very white Christmas.
     
    If we end up getting that much snow this may be the first year that my family's Christmas party is postponed. Everyone who's coming is driving for a minimum of 1 hour and they have said if we get that much snow they won't be coming on Friday.
     
    I also have to work on Thursday afternoon so I'm probably going to end up driving in the snow snow.
     

     
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    My Birthday

    By Mysterious Minifig,

    Yesterday was my 17th birthday.
     
    I got a Thermarest pad from my parents to take with to Jamboree. I also got a shirt from them and I got an umbrella from my sister. No LEGO Bricks though. It was pretty fun. I didn't go to a movie with my dad this year though since there weren't any movies out I'm interested in seeing. Sherlock Holmes would be cool but that doesn't open until Friday.
     
    I'm probably going to be getting to go on my first visit to the LEGO Store at the Mall of America pretty soon though. It's probably going to happen one day between Christmas and New Years. It will be in a couple of weeks though if it doesn't happen then. I'm on winter break until the 12th I think so it will happen before that.
     

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    Tomorrow

    By Mysterious Minifig,

    ...is my birthday. I'm not sure what I'm going to be getting. If the pattern for past birthdays holds it probably won't be anything spectacular. I think three years ago I got a LEGO NXT set and then I had sort of an off year. Last year I got a camera.
     
    I"ll probably end up waiting until Tomorrow night to find out though. It's a weekend though so I might be able to convince my parents to let me open my presents after lunch.
     
    In other news I'm finally done with my Christmas shopping. No last minutes runs to the store to get presents on Christmas Eve. My grandparents are getting a framed copy of this picture. It turned out pretty nice with the silver frame.
     
    I also learned yesterday I need to work on Christmas Eve Day and New Years Eve Day.
     

     
  18. Mysterious Minifig
    For my winter break I have a few books I want to read.
     
    The first two are both for school. I'm still doing some Literature courses at home even though the rest of schoolwork is college classes.
     
    I'm in the middle of The Red Badge of Courage right now. I read it a long time ago, but that was an abridged copy. I'm reading the full edition this time. I also have to read The Call of the Wild. It seems I've never read many of the classics, this being one of them.
     
    I'm also going to read Player Piano. After reading about on Black Six's blog I was intrigued so I got it from the library. It seems like an interesting book, but I'm only through the first 2 chapters.
     
    It's weird because I can usually read almost anything. Even if the first chapters are boring or slow I can usually get past them. My sister on the hand is the exact opposite. She won't read anything unless it interests her after the first chapter.
     
    I'll also probably get a book for Christmas or my birthday and I'll probably end up reading that too.
     

  19. Mysterious Minifig
    This morning almost right before lunch I managed to get in the last bid on ebay on collection of old LEGO Arctic sets. The total value of what's there new is probably about $50 but I got it for 30. B)
     
    It's the description said it was missing some small pieces but I'm not worried. From the pictures it looks like most stuff is there. It's also dusty but it shouldn't be too hard to clean the pieces.
     
    I've been trying to get some Arctic sets for a while now but they've always gone for more then what I've been willing to pay. It's probably my favorite older line, but I never got of the sets previously.
     

     
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    More Snow

    By Mysterious Minifig,

    So last night we got another 2 inches of snow. Since I don't have class anymore this year I ended up shoveling all of it. It actually wasn't as bad as it could have been since it was warmer out today then it has been lately.
     
    With the wind chill it's felt like it's been below 0 for almost the last week. It actually felt pretty warm today. No wind and the air temp was probably around 10. Yes, you can tell I live in a northern climate. Anywhere else 10 degrees would be really cold.
     

  21. Mysterious Minifig
    I went to my local Toys R Us and they've finally got in a shipment of the Stars. I got Tahu since that's the only set I'm really interested in.
     

     

     
    A few comments on this since I don't want to do a full review right now.
     
    I don't like LEGO Bricks choice for his head. They should have stuck with the same head design as the original Tahu. I looked at changing the design to the original head but there really isn't any way to change the head with out getting the same terrible effect, i.e. having the head stick out way to far.
     
    They also should have gone with a trans-red head instead of trans-yellow. While his sword does seem a bit exaggerated I guess it works since it's more of tribute then a remake. The red orange blend is also pretty cool.
     

  22. Mysterious Minifig
    Yesterday was the November meeting for my Jamboree Troop. There wasn't a parents meeting so I probably could have drove my self but the e-mail we got wasn't very clear.
     
    We basically worked on team building and the patrols. We did a yurt circle. Basically every body stand in a circle and every other person leans in towards the center. Everyone else leans out. We also did a thing where everyone has to sit down with feet touching and then grabbing each other hands, stand up.
     
    The is still some changes to the troop roster happening. Two new people were added to my patrol and I think there are some people who've left. The final roster won't happen until January or February.
     
    On a side note, I added a countdown to one of my content blocks.
     

  23. Mysterious Minifig
    Yes that's orange, not yellow. I was reading a review on another site (sorry I can't link to it) and this popped up in the review. He specifically said it was orange.

    BTW, It's not mine, otherwise I would have made a topic for it.

    Edit: I guess it's not really an orange piece. Turns out it's really Keetorange with photography that makes it really look orange. :blush:



  24. Mysterious Minifig
    I finally got tired of waiting for Toys R Us to get in a shipment of LEGO Advent Calenders. When I was in there the middle of last week they didn't have any in stock. The person I talked too though said they would be getting some in soon. A week later and approx. 3 calls later they still don't have any available. Target was also suppose to have some, they were running a $5 off sale that was suppose to end today. They sold out of them over a week ago before I had a chance to get one and that was that.
     
    I finally decided Amazon was my best bet. Now the LEGO City Advent Calender and the Ocean Eyes Owl City album will ship on the 30th of this month.
     

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    My Feelings

    By Mysterious Minifig,

    I personally am not too dismayed over the end of the Bionicle sets. I haven't really bought many of the sets since I originally got into Bionicle in 2001. By the time of the Rahkshi my interest had waned to the point that I pretty much stopped buying Bionicle. That fact that I didn't have a lot of money at the time also contributed to this. I only recently bought Toa Mata Nui for nostalgia. I'll probably also buy the Stars Tahu. As someone else said the circle will then be complete. My first and lasts sets will both be Tahu.
     
    I think it was also a good choice by LEGO to allow Greg to continue writing the Bionicle story line. When ever an ending gets rushed it usually turns out badly. This should allow for a much better ending to the story.
     
    This does throw a wrench into the system per say on another matter though. My Premier membership is going to expire the middle of January and now I'm not sure what I'm going to renew it as. Originally my plan was to get lifetime but now that Bionicles days are numbered I'm not sure if I want to do that. I may still do it but now it will take more thinking to decide that's what I want.
     

     
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