Partially Obvious

I’ve been working a lot on organizing all of the LEGO Ambassador nominations into one document so I can send them out to the rest of the community team.  This is so we can HARSHLY JUDGE you more efficiently (I’m just kidding…you knew that right?).  I’ve been going through stuff for NMRA coming up in two weeks and then planning for San Diego Comic Con later in July.  Then there’s Brickfair stuff. 

I was looking through flickr to see if anyone took a picture of my MOC at BrickWorld.  I’ll post it when I find it, or I guess I could take my own pictures.  Truth be told I didn’t even have a chance to take pictures at Brickworld.  I’m having to depend on the Joe Meno’s of the world, if there can be more than one, to take pictures of absolutely everything and hope my stuff fell in there some time. 

Anyways, I’m looking through flickr and I searched my name and low and behold a picture of me finally comes up first before some other guy named Steve Witt…who I’m sure is a jerk, or an evil version of me.  I was seeing all the photo shopped pictures of me from my contest and I was all like….I HAVE A BLOG OH YEAH.  I only missed yesterday, but I’ve missed writing.  traveling just throws a kink into my schedule.

Hey hey everyone.  If  you haven’t walked away from my blog completely (since I’ve not been around to post lately) I have a couple of things to catch up on.

Brickworld was a whole lot of fun.  there were about 600 attendees this time which is the biggest I’ve ever seen at a US event.  The best thing about it is that most of them actually brought a model with them.  There was so much to see this time around and I challeng other events to play catch up on the amount of material attendees bring (its up to all of us). 

I even brought a MOC this time around.  I’ll see if I can find a picture of it sometime. 

I ended up being the keynote speaker as well which was fun.  I enjoy talking to large groups of people, its actually less stressful than smaller one’s ironically because you can appeal to a much wider range of senses of humor with a huge group.  People seemed to enjoy it though which is all I could really hope for.

As I suspected, the trip has destroyed any semblence of a diet that I might have been attempting.  I ate at Chipotle at least once a day and consumed my fair share of f Mr. Pibb (the poor man’s Dr. Pepper).  Mr Pibb and Dr Pepper are not the same thing, no matter what your waiter/waitress may try to tell you at any given resteraunt.  I enjoy both, but it must be acknowledged that Pibb is sweeter than DP and that is the fundamental difference. 

Finally, Michael Jackson passed away yesterday which is a sad day.  He was one of the prime examples of why money doesn’t buy happiness and I’ve always felt badly for him for that, but man could the dude sing.

Pete, Erik and I watched Youtube videos at lunch today to commemorate his passing.  I’d never seen Captain Eo, which is the 3D video that played at disney world in the 80’s.  If you go look it up its actually shocking how much Star Trek ripped off from this video especially regarding the Borg.  Go check it out and you’ll see what I mean. 

Hope you all have a great weekend.

well I’m off to brickworld early in the morning tomorrow.  Erik Varszegi and I fly to Chicago in the morning and will get there a bit before lunch time.  I’m hope to see some of you there and maybe you can come help me build a few things at the LEGO booth

Steve

some of you may be aware of my current diet initiative.  I do a work out class at the office two times a week and I’m attempting to give up Dr. Pepper.  I’m doing ok on both, I no longer feel like my legs are going to fall off from misuse.  I’ve only given up DP for like a week, and meg sort of brought me one the other night so I drank it because she can do no wrong, so the DP must be right.  I have however stopped drinking the 20 oz bottle at lunch every day and occasionally sucking down a 12 pack in 2 days or less.  any progress is progress really, and I still plan on having one every once and a while…I guess you can say I’m a social DP drinker now instead of a DPaholic…I can quit whenever I want…

anyways, I tried the nicotene gum of Dr Pepper today which the company cleverly calls Diet Dr Pepper.  they claim that it tastes more like Regular Dr Pepper.  What I’ve come to understand is that that only means that it tastes slightly less like crap than it did before. 

I mean, I live way closer to London now that I live in Connecticut instead of Texas, but that doesn’t mean I don’t still have to cross the Atlantic Ocean.  Saying Diet Dr Pepper is anything like Regular Dr Pepper is the same as saying coke and pepsi are the same thing.  They’re just not…well maybe they kind of are…they’re both crap.

Anyways, you have betrayed me diet Dr Pepper and I won’t stand for your lies any longer.

I wanted to put up some info for you guys about upcoming store openings along with some pictures of the make and take models they’ll be giving out:

Cincinnatti, OH – Kenwood Town Center (June 19-21): LEGO Flying Pig set

Dallas, TX – NorthPark Center (July 17-19): LEGO Texas Longhorn Skull set

Oklahoma City, OK – Penn Square Mall (July 24-26): LEGO Cowboy set

These are mostly pretty cool I think. 

I don’t know what’s going on with the flying pig but it looks nice.

So I’m in the middle of building the new giant drill rig thing that they made for Power miners

and it just reminds me how much I like Power miners.  they’re just big beefy playable toys  and they make me super happy. 

That’s pretty much all I got right now.  If you live in the Northeast remember that tomorrow is free ice cream day at Friendly’s.  from like 12-5 I think. 

Have a great weekend.

well I just shipped out a mess load of stuff for BrickWorld so I got to take a few minutes to build one of the new models I picked up at the store. I grabbed the Creator Car Carrier set and its pretty dang cool. I recommend this one. the cool thing is that its compatible with the green and yellow creator cars from the last couple of years so you get a full carrier if you’ve been building all along.

Anyways, I just accidentally made my San Diego Comic-Con tickets for the wrong month so I’m currently on the phone redoing them. The travel agent says I said it wrong, but I think she just heard what she wanted to hear, but thats neither here nor there. oh well.

Hope everyone’s having a good day.

I just realized I hadn’t posted here in quite a while. I’ve been working on getting ready to launch a new cycle of Ambassadors. The nomination process will be starting soon and its taken a bunch of my time getting that ready. plus I was out sick on friday (blech). The worst thing about being sick is that you sleep a lot more at random times and your body doesn’t know what time it is. Last night I couldn’t fall asleep till like 4am, which makes it hard on the waking up at 8 thing.

Anyways, Brickworld is coming up soon so I’m busy mailing stuff out and getting ready for that. There’s around 550 people registered for that event, so I’m certain a few of you who read this blog might be there. Come say hi and please don’t be offended if I don’t remember exactly where we met before. I try my best but I can’t always keep up. Anyways, I’ll post again tomorrow

Steve