What a year. So many things happened! I'll get to a real recap of the year eventually, but the year decided to throw one more crazy curveball at the last moment. Last week Nukaya got a call from a job she'd applied for, and they wanted her to come and interview. So she agreed to the interview. So we booked plane tickets. To San Diego. The interview was at LEGOLAND, and we found out this week she got the job. Maddison will be a model builder for LEGOLAND parks, and we'll be moving from th
I'm going to do a write-up about the entire NYCC trip, but I want to edit my photos first. For now, here's the image of all the parts and masks I ended up with after NYCC. But first, a little explanatory background: Several months ago, I got an email from a woman on the LEGO CEE team, asking if I wanted to be part of a project she couldn't tell me about. I, of course, said "uh, only absolutely." She sent me an NDA, and I signed it. The next email started out with: "So we're bringing BIONICLE b
It's a big day tomorrow. Since the move to Portland in June 2012, I've been working at the same Starbucks store. I was promoted March of 2013, and I still stayed at this store, which is unusual for a promotion. Usually they promote you and then ship you out to another store. But I stayed! Which is cool, because this is the busiest store in the PNW, and the prestige with helping run this store is incredible. As the supervisor on my shifts, I've broken every drive-thru store record Starbucks cor
Well, just purchased tickets to NYC for October. Looks like NYCC is finally a reality! Excited for the BIONICLE, as well as our first trip to NYC. I hear good things! (Also I'm going to buy the heck out of a NYC Starbucks mug!)
So Brickfair was pretty amazing. We arrived Tuesday afternoon, and hung out with Andrew once he arrived. We did set up Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I won the Batman Ultrabuilds set in a door prize raffle. I talked with Peter Espersen for awhile. I manned a mean mean check-in desk. Maddison won TLG's convention Batman's 75th contest. Played a mean game of Cards Against Humanity with Andrew, Maddison, Aaron, David, Gabe, and Jamison. Trisha and her friend Andrew showed up and played too! Witho
I mean seriously, I can't believe Brickfair plans start tomorrow! Maddison and I will be catching an early flight out of Portland tomorrow and landing at IAD in the early afternoon! Maddison is upset that we'll be getting up to catch the flight at like 4:30, but that's sleeping in for me. Pretty ready for a vacation, not going to lie. Though I did finally finish my Coffee Master certification at work, now I get to wear the cool black Starbucks apron instead of the green one! Anyway, at Brick
Topic! Next I will build non-Gundam MOCs again. Man I am going to have just a ton of new MOCs for Brickfair this year. MOCs I have now that I didn't have last year: Hahli Husky Kakaru Janus Tufi Piyufi Toro Gundam SD MS-026 Sunset Gundam Onua Samus Jack Noir The other MOC I've got half-built I think this is as many MOCs as I brought to the first Brickfair in 2008. But these are all new as of October!
So my goal, as I may or may not have stated in the past, is to built one MOC per month, at least, for the entirety of 2014. In January I had Hahli Husky. In February I had a Kakaru MOC I haven't posted. In March I had Samus. In April I had both Onua and Bec Noir. And in May I now have a Gundam. Link to topic:
Lately I've found myself in a pretty sweet building groove. This is my fourth MOC this year! My goal is one a month this year, and it'll be cool if I can keep it going. Yes, this is the third one I've posted, I haven't photographed my Kakaru MOC because it's really more of a tablescrap. Per usual, picture links to topic
Today I watched Pacific Rim for the first time whilst Maddison and our cat Problem Sleuth cuddled on the couch asleep, and while I did so, I live-streamed the movie. Via text message. To Micah. He has not seen them yet. I am certain they will make for a delightful reading. I know he'll know exactly where I was via each message. I can't wait for him to live up here!
I finally registered for BricksCascade, which happens here in three weeks. I also decided to input my MOCs. After ten cons, I get tired of the same things all the time. So this is my MOCs list (not censoring my name because for one, I'm an adult, for two, it's already all over the forum for prior con mailing things, and for three, it's public on the BricksCascade list, so that would be dumb): SPOT THE NEW MOCS NONE OF YOU HAVE SEEN WOW
So Maddison and I have been doing this thing where we attend not just LEGO conventions, but also pop-culture/comic/nerd conventions here in town too. It's been a lot of fun, and she's been working on cosplaying a lot too. We've done two since Christmas, at one she was a femme Tony Stark (Toni Stark?) from a gender-swapped movie universe, and this newest one she threw together a Kanaya from Homestuck. I have pictures of the Kanaya for the moment, I need to edit the Toni Stark ones still.
So my awesome girlfriend Maddison bought me Pokemon X for Christmas. I've never played Pokemon before (outside of Walmart demos as a child), for various reasons (not having a handheld system high among them, but higher being the "not allowed to because it's evil" thing). As an adult I've never really thought too hard about it. After Brickfair 2012, where we left the bus station after watching Andi play some, I attempted to download an emulator and play through some, but they never worked right (
