BenSpark Family Adventures

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01549 I was sent a box of fun stuff for the upcoming super Mario Bros. Movie. Mario and Luigi hats, t-shirts, stickers, buttons and bags. Lots of fun stuff. I made a video unboxing the swag. The movie hits theaters on April 5th.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01548 Tonight we enjoyed some meatballs that Allison and Andy made a few weeks ago. Andy was quite happy with the meal. we had our Krav classes today and Andy was back at it and having a good time. Eva as well. They both worked hard in class. I had my class in the morning and it was fun, I’m still very nervous about tomorrow night’s evaluation but excited, too.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01547 Andy has started their third session at rock Spot Climbing. I came in at the end of classes and Andy was attempting to climb a 5.9. This is the level that their shooting for this session. Andy got a little further than you can see in the photo and came back down. Mind you, this was after an hour and a half of climbing. Andy had already worked their butt off prior to this. As Andy came back down they looked more dejected than ever. I caught a photo of the look on Andy’s face and it was very sad indeed. On the ride home I talked with Andy about how their Rock Climbing journey was a marathon rather than a sprint. I then worked through that concept with Andy. I tried to relate it to my Black Belt journey and how I did not achieve my own goals the firs time out of the gate. It continues to be something that I am working on. That must be on my mind because evaluation is coming up in two days. And I am very nervous. I think I’m in a good position physically and my...

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01546 As if I didn’t have enough things in my office that lit up, I picked up a new light up seat cover for my gaming chair. This is is cheap, I got it at Big Lots so I wasn’t expecting much. It is powered by a USB plug so that does not make it super practical and I am wider than the cover so no one can see it anyway. I thought it might be cool for my videos. However, no one will see it and plugging it in doesn’t make much sense. I also picked up a cheap light up keyboard so that I can use it when the automatic lights go off on me at work. They can make me go in, they can’t make me sit with everyone else listening to Bob all night long.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01545 For a few years, Skylanders was my jam. They were the thing that I worked on all the time, playing the game, reporting on the game, collecting toys and pretty much anything else with them. Then they disappeared almost overnight. I’ve got a huge display cabinet with every Skylander ever except for one, Master Ro-Bow. That one was impossible to find because it was the very last one out. I held it in my hand once but did not buy it because I thought that Activision was going to send one to me. So instead that one is not part of my collection and it goes for several hundred dollars on eBay. I’d love to find it and add it to the collection one day but it is unlikely. I guess I should take my collection and start playing through the last game, Skylanders: Imaginators on my YouTube channel. Give some new life in these Toys To Life Toys.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01544 The other day when Andy got a haircut they were talking with Zack. Andy thinks the world of Zack and even puts together lists of topics that they want to discuss with Zack. They talked about how I have several Pez dispensers. Andy knows that I have a few, but forgot that I have a ton of Marvel Funko Pop Pez dispensers as well. I guess that the next time that I go to see Zack myself I should bring him some photos of my office, it’ll blow his mind.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01543 For 90% of the time my Dexcom G6 is great, it monitors my blood sugar and is very accurate. However, when you replace a sensor there is a warm up time. When you replace a transmitter it takes some time for it to connect. I replaced mine this morning when the alarm for it woke me. Then I tried to get to sleep and it was just not happening. Then when the transmitter and sensor warmed up things were looking good and then the numbers crashed down. They really were not crashing because I checked them the traditional way. I calibrated the app and ate a little something just in case. Tried to get back to sleep and couldn’t. Got another alarm and recalibrated again. I’ve got to stop changing these things on the weekends or at least wait until after I wake up.