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First Outdoor Movie Night of 2021!
We rocked the neighborhood tonight watching “Real Steel” and had a fun first movie night of the season.
Such a great heart-warming family movie full of action and humor, filling the night with laughter and cheers. I hope we didn’t bother the neighbors too much. 🙂
Right OnTrac
Another fine delivery from our friends at OnTrac.
I came home to find this little gift in my front yard, delivered by the ever vigilant OnTrac employee in his fancy U-Haul/OnTrac delivery van.
Wait a minute, could this be the same individual who was seen fleeing a few months ago when he heard our dog barking from the back yard?
I think so!
First snow of the new year
After being without power for the last five days due to the worst wind event I’ve ever seen, we were treated to our first snow day of the year.
The power was restored on Saturday night, after being out for the week, and it was nice to get the house back to normal after days of generator power.
The snow started falling Sunday evening and kept up pretty much all night. Woke to a nice covering of the fluffy white stuff and thankful that the power was still on. 🙂
Roads from the house were not plowed and a little unnerving as I rolled the beast down the hill toward town. I was very happy to see the roads were clear when I hit the highway, and from there on out my travels were free and clear.
Days like these are the reason why I love the mountain life.
Breakin’ to the Bumpboxx
Yup, that’s right!
Been breakin’ and be-boppin’ since my birthday, thanks to this awesome gift from my favorite youngest daughter. 😉
This thing connects via wire, Bluetooth, USB or even MicroSD. Even has a FM radio deep in its innards.
Been filling up my Spotify playlist with everything that was cool about the 80’s. Just need to dig up some large pieces of cardboard so I can perfect my moves.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Extra points of you can tell me what movie we are watching.
Hint, it’s NOT Christmas Vacation. 🙂
No power, no problem
Slumming it on generator power due to our local Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS).
In other news…
Just finished the fiber install at our mountain home, switching from copper wire to fiber for our internet.
Just in case you are curious, the following two pictures are of the actual fiber. The first is the line with the blue protective coating, and the second is the actual fiber that has been stripped of the coating.
It’s truly amazing that this tiny fiber line can fulfill the needs of a single family home, all the way up to a large corporate building.
Finally, the world is my oyster!
Well, first the bad news…
The ol’ 55″ TV took a dump, and needed to be replaced. Unfortunately, they don’t make 3D TVs anymore, and I have well over a hundred 3D movies on bluray. I was never happy with the old TV’s 4K HDR processing and still prefer 3D over 4K all day, every day.
And now the good news… the higher end OLED TV’s have really come down in price. I was able to go where no man (well, me anyways) has gone before, taking it up a notch to purchase features that were previously out of my price range.
Enter the Sony 65″ Class A8H Series OLED 4K UHD Smart Android TV
This thing is simply beautiful and the OLED technology gives me a picture I have only dreamed of. Android TV built in which is better and faster than ever. This thing communicates flawlessly with all my other Sony components and even has a Netflix calibration mode for streaming in 4K.
Even though I use an external surround sound system, I think it’s pretty cool that this beast utilizes a technology Sony calls “Acoustic Surface Audio” which actually uses the glass to distribute the sound in a surround type environment, putting the sound at the correct sources on the screen.
To be perfectly honest, I may have shed a tear or two when losing the ability to watch 3D and I hope and pray for a 3D revival at sometime in the future, but this 4K thing is starting to grow on me.
Walk right up, sit right down
Only took 10 years, but we finally found some awesome stools for the outside BBQ island.
Had a fun night breaking them in with our family.
Something wicked this way comes
As if I didn’t already love everything orange, this showed up at the house!
Looking forward to much faster internet speeds at the homestead.
Shelter in place… no problem for this guy
Grizz is loving all the people time he’s getting during these crazy stay at home days, and there’s nothing better than a morning nap in front of the fire.
Some days I just love my commute
Hey boss, I may be in late tomorrow!
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year.”
Let the festivities begin. Starting off early this year with my favorite holiday treat.
New Iron Man Funko Pop!
Finally got my hands on this bad boy… It’s all about the gauntlet baby!
Hot Toys Nano Gauntlet
Wow, good things come to those that wait! Ordered this bad boy many, many months ago, and it has finally arrived!
This thing is beautiful, very well detailed with articulated fingers. Same two light up modes, always on and pulse.
So happy… only one to go, the Hulk version will complete the set later this year.
Oops, I did it again…
All six of the chrome Hulks with Nano Gauntlet.
“You know, I tried… when I had the gauntlet… the stones… I really tried to bring her back.”
Come on you apes. You want to live forever?
Finally picked up a Johnny Rico Funko Pop! from one of my all time favorite films, “Starship Troopers”.
More fun stuff from the world of Marvel
I picked up this awesome reproduction of “The Fonz” lunch box from the Captain Marvel movie. I even had an old Tesseract lying around that I pick up at SDCC last year.
I had it on pre-order at Entertainment Earth and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it shipped out much sooner than expected. They packaged it with a lot off bubble wrap so it arrive in perfect condition without a dent or scratch.
I’m so glad I decided to grab this item for my collection.
Hasbro Legends Nano Gauntlet
OMG, it’s here!!!
This thing is incredible. Highly detailed with more sounds and special event triggers than the original. Now I can snap you out, and back in at the same time.
Who wants to be blipped first?