Wednesday, October 22, 2014

BOUGHT BACK A PAC-PIECE OF MY CHILDHOOD FROM EBAY.......FOR $15!!

One of the good things about eBay is you can sometimes find and "buy back" something from your childhood that had gotten lost, disposed of or sold at a garage sale.  I'd always talked about wanting that Pac-Man sleeping bag I'd had and continued to use for several years, being the retro gaming geek I was and still am - no idea what happened to it.  

So I find one on eBay about a week ago and bid $15.  Somebody made about four bids on the auction while it was going but didn't manage to outbid me.  I only use eBay for "Buy It Now" purchases, so this was a very rare case I actually bid on an item and wasn't about to get into any bidding wars in case somebody  did outbid me.  Didn't happen.  As of a few hours ago, it's been shipped and on the way.  

Now I need to find the Hanna-Barbera Pac-Man cartoon that was released in two volumes on DVD a while back.  I've never seen them in stores but they're available at Amazon, etc.



And because of my $15 bargain win, I played a celebratory game of the original Pac-Man for the first time in over a decade.

"THE SKY ISN'T ALWAYS BLUE - A SUN DOESN'T ALWAYS SHINE"



THIS IS LIABLE TO GET MESSY

You know I can't have a damn pomegranate without making a bloody mess of the place!


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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

BRONSKI BEAT 2.0 FEATURING JON FOSTER

Two lead singers replaced the original, Jimmy Somerville, from 1986-to the mid 90's, but the mainstays were founding keyboardists/musicians Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek.  

Jon Foster was hired to replace Somerville in 1986 and he remained with Bronski for a couple years.  Since the Facebook era, Foster has been working on a future TBA project with Steve Bronski once again.  Here's to a reunion in one form or another!






FACEBOOK = WHERE BFF BEST FRIENDSHIPS ARE FORMED DAILY


They have Facebook beefs in the projects, too?!?

FIVE BELOW MINI-HAUL [OCTOBER 21 - MANSFIELD, TX]

THIS time trying out the Five Below store in Mansfield, TX for a change.  I didn't care for it as much as the ones in Hurst and Grand Prairie so far.  

Check it out - Star Wars and Jelly Belly have finally teamed up for a special mix!  METALLIC jellybeans!

Appropriately, of the 16 possibilities of The Simpsons characters, the minifigure I'd gotten was Nelson!

"HA Ha!!!"








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I'M JUST GETTING STARTED (BATCH OF MY FAMOUS COLLARD GREENS): PART II

As always, turned out perfectly.





The Chef ;)