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Ken got a new dog
Took the day off to run around and do a little shopping. First stop was μCenter for poking around, and discovered that they had 256 MB of PC133 memory for $25 (after rebate). This made me happy. Watertown now has a vaguely reputable amount of RAM.
Then off to Peabody. I visited North East Trains. It looked like they had a pretty nice selection of O and O27 gauge stuff, and an okay selection of HO, and a tiny shelf of N which it looked like they were desperately trying to get rid of. Even at half off, nothing looked tempting. Time to kill, so orbited malls (there are two just off of 128 in that area, and the one further out has the Best Buy). Looked longingly at an empty hanger labelled for $60 (post-rebate) 1GB CF. Discovered that the clever elevator 20-ounce soda machine handily shakes the bottle enough to make a big mess.
So then I went to Ken's, because I haven't been there in a while. Bought a big bag of trees (36, it says), and some water, and a couple more box cars, and a track-cleaning car (complete with 20-minute attempted demo). Ogled, but did not buy, the book of signal porn and the MEC/GRS GP-40 (I already have two engines, even if I can't use the 4-6-2 Pacific, I don't need a third).
Then got stuck behind a slow truck on Route 20. Even with a 30-minute extension returned the car 10 minutes late. Oops. There weren't angry people standing around trying to extort money from me so I think it was okay.
Then off to Peabody. I visited North East Trains. It looked like they had a pretty nice selection of O and O27 gauge stuff, and an okay selection of HO, and a tiny shelf of N which it looked like they were desperately trying to get rid of. Even at half off, nothing looked tempting. Time to kill, so orbited malls (there are two just off of 128 in that area, and the one further out has the Best Buy). Looked longingly at an empty hanger labelled for $60 (post-rebate) 1GB CF. Discovered that the clever elevator 20-ounce soda machine handily shakes the bottle enough to make a big mess.
So then I went to Ken's, because I haven't been there in a while. Bought a big bag of trees (36, it says), and some water, and a couple more box cars, and a track-cleaning car (complete with 20-minute attempted demo). Ogled, but did not buy, the book of signal porn and the MEC/GRS GP-40 (I already have two engines, even if I can't use the 4-6-2 Pacific, I don't need a third).
Then got stuck behind a slow truck on Route 20. Even with a 30-minute extension returned the car 10 minutes late. Oops. There weren't angry people standing around trying to extort money from me so I think it was okay.
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Closer to home, Charles Ro Supply Company in Malden claims to have S gauge. The last time I was there I needed a very specific piece of track, and they don't carry that sort of thing in N scale, but they did have an N section. Their Web site only lists things HO and larger, and underemphasizes HO. If I'm out there again, I can try to remember to look.
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There's nothing specific we want right now. Matt recently inherited an old American Flyer S gauge train set, and he's gradually been acquiring more track and cars via e-bay. Right now, we are still just working on getting the train to complete a loop without derailing or getting caught. But thanks for letting me know!