Hello Cruel World (not "cool" world), Xmas recap

Here i am again at the keyboard thinking i should post something every once in a while. So what have i been up to being an evil "unvaccinated" monster - not my responsibility to allay your irrational fears. 

Xmas has come and gone.  The real Santa Claus has forsaken me yet again. Does he have the Futurama definition of "good" or something? Hundreds of dollars and months for a 1 hour payoff.  The sales this year were kind of nutrient-y. That means i got some new stuff to watch - other than the world taking a slow ride to hell in the name of "protecting" people from the 99+% survivable virus.  Seriously, the propaganda is so thick/insidious i can't even watch TV anymore. 

What were the Solstice/Xmas themes this year (with my leftover stimulus money)?

Ghost of Xmas Toys Past

 i sometimes have a little cascading problem when it comes to certain things.  i sometimes like to collect things. Then i lose interest and have to revisit them again years later.  Then there are some that i could never have gotten.

{Insert Picture of Turbo Man here} - or lazily don't

One such toy that i regretted selling (sold all my Star Wars stuff in 1999 for $400 or so) was my Rancor Monster

{Insert picture of Rancor Monster Here}- 1983 Kenner, if you wanna look it up

Sometimes i want a replica of an iconic toy from my "childhood" that i never had. Unfortunately, the Montgomery Ward catalog doesn't exist anymore.  i think it would be kind of cool to have some of the following toys: 

* Masters of the Universe: He-Man, Skeletor, Castle Grayskull,  then maybe: Man-At-Arms, Teela (non-snake), Orko, Evil-Lyn   

* Gobots: Leader One, Cy-Kill, Scooter

* Transformers: Optimus Prime, Slag, Megatron, Starscream

* Madballs

* My Pet Monster

* Others i can't think of.

Happy Halloween

Either i'm a day or two late or 363-364 days early, your call.  Anyway, the most magical time of the year, Halloween, came - apparently in the modern world, if you didn't have pictures it didn't happen. No, the Great Pumpkin did not come yet again 

Dread Pirate Sadie and mutineer Nibbler.  

Back and Front - not good picture of the front.  Kind of etched, so it doesn't show off light really well.  i only stabbed myself once or twice with the woodworking type tool i was using. i suck at etching.  Time to start decorating for Xmas. 

Just Saying 2

 

You saw in "Just Saying" that i got a LEGO White House (not put together yet), but the stimulus checks afforded me a chance to go more crazy (as i often do).  i kind of like the architecture series.  Here is the most recent one, can you spot the errors.  Nope, because i kind of messed up the shot.  This is the Taj Mahal - look at all those little 1x1 white and brownish tiles.  It wasn't bad, there are repetitive elements (most of the inner area - do X 4x).  This is the biggest set i own (2,022 pieces)

Help With China's Dossier on Me

There was a news story recently that surmised China has enough data to develop a dossier on every American adult. i would guess the US Government already has this with social media posts, public records, AMZN purchases, etc - but the US government would never spy on its own people, right.

The "Are You Coming to the Toga Party" post was a joke if any NSA/CIA/Whatever were monitoring my posts.  It references Chuck episode "Chuck vs the Alma Mater" (i think that was the name).  That was the code phrase to get the CIA students/agents to lend assistance.

One of the stories.... Senate panel warned China has enough data for dossiers on all Americans (nypost.com).  Links haven't been working for me recently, so we'll see.     

If China or the US is looking to put together a dossier on me to exploit my awesomeness (flatter/control me), here is some random things that might curry favor.  

Just Saying

 

Happy B-Day to Me*

* Happiness doesn't exist (probably, the illusion does and is ephemeral/fleeting), a day is 24 hours - only 3.5 or so of them remain in the day based off of the time i was allegedly born, and i am probably some type of superior life form (not human)    

i was allegedly born on the anniversary of "fat man" (the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan). That seems to be oddly prophetic.  Also oddly prophetic was that my date of birth goes up then down (in a mm/dd/yy format, ignoring zeroes, all down in most of the world - dd/mm/yy).

Obviously the world has not yet acknowledged my greatness (my B-Day isn't even a world holiday, yet). When will people learn?

So, how old am i?  15.55 or 15.6.  

Many people spend their childhoods wanting to be older - don't do it, it really isn't worth it. Once you hit 30, chronologically, it is all downhill until the sweet, merciful release of oblivion (i've heard).  

A couple of the last few years i've secretly wondered if there would be another b-day (chronic chest/shoulder issues).  Let's just pretend there is some magical plan and everything will suddenly snap into place over the next 12 months (and everything is not completely hopeless) ...  

So much that i wanted to do is clearly in the rear-view mirror (though i never even got close). Does anyone have a functional time machine i could borrow?  It would suck to be stuck in the past (say the 1980s).