Monthly Archives: March 2020

Family, Photo-A-Day

So, I Shaved My Head

Shaved my head

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00456

I finally did it. I finally went through with shaving my head. I actually had Allison and the kids and my self shave it while on a facebook livestream tonight after dinner. I can’t seem to embed this in this post so here is the link to Dad Gets a Quarantine Haircut. I had been threatening to do this for a while. Well, not so much threatening but talking about it and Eva saw it as a threat. She did not want me to shave my head. The funny thing is that when it was over and she looked at it she said, “Oh, that’s not much shorter than usual.” No, no it was not. But at the same time it really was. This was a whole new feeling for me and I’m now going to have to shave often to keep it looking the best it can be. I had become increasingly unhappy about my photos because of my hair. There was such a wide patch in the middle of my head that it looked like Moses parted it each morning. I called that area the valley of the damned because none of my follicles wanted to live there anymore.

Since I finished the Voltron set yesterday I had to decide what to do next in terms of my lunchtime video. Well, I had picked up a fun little LEGO Creator set last week that makes a pirate themed tree house and two other things. I had Andy help me out in the video and we built it together. I had considered making LEGO lunch all about LEGO Dimensions the video game but I discovered that the Toy PAd that I had for the Wii U would not work with the XBox One. I looked online and it appears that that device needs its own proprietary toypad. So, back to ebay I went for a toypad and also for a Skylanders portal of power. I thought, Hey, I bought Starlink for the XBox One and I could play that. I opened up the box and the game wasn’t inside. I had bought it new but now sign of the actual game. So crazy, and so back to ebay I went. More livestreaming of video games on the way.

Today Andy did his stripe test for karate from home. I took a video of him doing his form and several kicks. then I sent it in to be evaluated. He passed. Now I have to do my test.

LEGO, Photo-A-Day, Toys

LEGO Lunchtime Setup

LEGO Lunch setup

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00455

For the past week I’ve been building LEGO sets at Lunchtime. I’ve been livestreaming the builds to share on my YouTube and Facebook pages. I spent last week building the LEGO Voltron set and just finished it today. Bot Voltron proudly stands next to my TV and s almost nearly as tall as the TV. This is a massive set and it took days to build. I took one day for each lion except for the black lion, that got spread over two days. With all the lions assembled it was time to build the full Voltron figure.

While I was building the Voltron figure today I remembered that I had been given a Voltron basketball. This was perfect because Eva has her own ball but Andy did not. so I pumped up the ball and gave it to Andy. He was thrilled to have his own ball for the basketball hoop. It appears to be a slightly smaller ball than Eva’s. That is good too because Andy is smaller and he’ll work up to the larger ball.