So here we are on a Monday again. It's been an interesting week-ish since my last post, I suppose.

We had a whole lot of turmoil out of something that didn't happen, which kind of hits me as amazing in the absurdity of it. Our system worked. The intelligence community between several countries caught the threat, followed it before people were hurt, and arrested the people involved. They'd identified them months before hand, followed them and identified the plot. Twenty-one were arrested, and nothing, absolutely nothing, was damaged. No one was killed, no plains were blown up...

...and then the world apparently went ape-shit crazy as if something had happened. Seriously, if the system worked, why were people suddenly banned from carrying their own water onto a plane, from operating electonic devices, or from carrying pain meds like fucking insulin. Seriously. I mean... what the hell is wrong with these monkies? It's tiresome that the millions of travellers every day are treated like criminals because twenty-one legitimate criminals were caught.

Anyway, back to the case at hand. My LEGO addiction continues, and has gotten "worse," of sorts. Basically, I've been going through all my older sets, and trying to replace missing parts and figures. I've got three more Batman sets before I finish that line, I have all of the currently released in-stores Star Wars sets (plenty of UCS or web only ones), and there are dozens more I'd like to get. But that's the fun of collecting.

On that note, I frequent a LEGO forum to talk about... well... LEGO stuff. I found someone that has some of the most asinine morals I've seen in some time. He doesn't like or can't afford the larger sets, which tend to have more custom figures, and said he usually gets them by buying the product, taking out the figures, and then returning it saying that they were missing. We all called it for what it is... you know, stealing... and he basically mocked everyone that responded. Someone that worked for a LEGO park said he used his employee discount to buy sets as gifts or to trade, which is allowed by their employee handbook, and this guy said it's "more or less the same thing." It astounds me that someone can actually justify stealing like that. I guess I've always felt if you're going to do something like that, just call it for what it is. Just me though.