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When I first brought my LEGO collection from my mom's house to my house, I created a large scale LEGO man.  It was a little smaller, didn't have moving arms, it had a baseball hat, and it had a double pocket torso, but it was very similar to this one.

I had a few difficulties finding enough blue pieces to get this done.  I made 3 special orders on bricklink to get more 1x4 bricks, slopes, and also peg and hole joint piece to let the arms and legs move.  Everything else was already in my inventory.

It probably took me 10 hours including rebuilding hours.  It's pretty heavy, even though each section is pretty hollow.  It's crazy how fast weight and pieces used add up with LEGO creations.

 

more pictures here.

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Hockey is great.  Hockey fights are sweet.  Hockey fights reach epic status when the goalies fight too.

 

I had a pretty wicked dream last night about my step dad, Chris.  It was more like a short film itself.  It took place in this old time chinese town, with a royal family.  The first scene had this mother in a kimono at the door of a house on a rainy night, kissing her ~6 year old son good bye.  She was sad to see him go, but there was an urgency for his safety that he had to get away.  The boy is taken away by a guy in a long cape.  There was a guy with camera across the street that kept trying to take pictures of the boy, but was never able to get a shot of his face.  So there's this theme of mystery around the son of the lady.

Next scene is years later, and a 20 something year old man, who is trying to find out if the lady is his mother.  They walk down a narrow path behind some houses with a waist high white wall to their left and these 1 story white houses/apartments with big windows to their right.  They're walking and talking about their history, and she knows who he is, but she can't admit who he is right away.  So, I'm like this bodyguard person walking with them, and every time we pass one of these large windows, I throw out my arms, grabbing my cape and blocking people from inside seeing the two together.  Then, one window has the same camera man behind it.  I bust through the window and try to chase him down, but I'm not successful.  He's not able to get a shot of the man's face though.  So I've done my job.

Then, we flash to modern day in my mom's house.  I'm sleeping downstairs and I hear a noise upstairs.  I rush upstairs all ninja like, check the back bedrooms are clear, and when I come to the main door, it's open.  Someone made their way into the house.  I'm yelling for Chris to let him know that the camera man is in the house.  I locked the door and start to make may way through the livingroom into the back bathroom.  Then I see the guy with the camera standing in the door way.  It's friggin creepy to think about it right now.  So i lunge towards him, he goes into Chris' room, where Chris and I try to corner him, but he slips back into the bathroom, still not being able to take a picture of Chris' face.  When I go back into the bathroom area to find him, he had disappeared into piles of garbage bags of clothes that are all over the floor.  Our old dalmation, Dante, is there, and he sniffs him out and the dude jumps up out of the bags with his camera in hand and I throw out my arms with my cape and block a picture of Chris again. 

I woke up somewhere after that.  This dream is a little foggier than some of my dreams I write about, but the concept seemed pretty cool.  I could see a little short movie being made where the identity of the heir to the throne must be kept safe.

Check out this installation art that looks like a giant spider web but it's made out of packing tape.  You can actually crawl inside it.  We need to get this to the Mattress Factory!!!

www.fastcompany.com/1656197/designers-create-spiderman-worthy-cave-from-packing-tape

Bathroom time is sacred and private.  If anyone else is with 5 feet of you while you are in the bathroom, this is unacceptable, especially in the case of hardware floors where sound travels far.  If it is unavoidable, I learned a trick from a teacher back at Heritage Hills.  Turn the faucet on full blast to drown out any other sounds.

Without going into the dream that inspired it, I want to have a basement or at least a low level room/area that is only accessible by a staircase that is on a third or second story.  The ides is to have a normal stairwell where staircases are stacked on top of each other, but it skips a floor, and then the stairs go the opposite direction on that lower level.  I'll probably need to mock up a 3D model or something if you can't understand that.  That area would come in handy if you were being invaded by robbers, they'd expect the basement to only be accessible by the 1st floor, or by going down, but you have to go up to go down...

Pictures, or it didn't happen.

Check out this great Gigapan of Pittsburgh taken recently from the top of the USS Steel building  (the tallest building in the city).  It has some awesome views from it, as well as confirming that if I had a way onto my roof, like a roof deck, (or tore down the houses behind me), I could see the USS Steel building.

http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/47373/

#87 - If you want to survive in this world, you can't be afraid to fail. 

#88 - If you want to succeed, you have to learn from the times you do fail.