It’s my birthday today! I was brought into this world at least 21 years ago to bring joy to my friends and despair to my enemies!
And as befits one of my stature, I received wonderful gifts. A lot of gifts. Too many in fact. Here’s some of them, so I can look back in future years and marvel at the bounty I received.
Let’s get some tedious stuff out of the way first. I got a bunch of games, mostly for the Switch. Many of these I bought myself and KLS squirreled away until today, and I’ll probably be playing them over the next year.
If you think this is a lot… well here are the DVDs!
There’s a story behind this haul: we’ve been doing ‘movie nights’ on Fridays and Saturdays for a while, and despite having a wealth of options available via streaming are stubbornly watching DVDs, mostly purchased for a song ($3.74 usually) from Walmart. Eventually we thought to check Amazon for cheap DVDs (yes, we actually searched for ‘cheap DVDs’) and found a goldmine! Some of those in the photo were under $3!! Yes we’ve seen almost all of them already, and yes many are ‘bad’ films, but neither means they won’t be fun to watch again 🙂
I got loads of books as well – 15 in total including a few hardcover art books – but that’s boring to most of you so I’ll skip it and move on to the more unusual stuff, like this:
A Pac-Man watch! It’s a Timex digital watch made to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Pac-Man! It’s all metal and has a snappy design and even plays the iconic theme when you hold a button down. I like this a lot 🙂
I got three boxes of trading cards! The Hook ones are from the movie (that I’ve never seen) that came out in 1991 and include stickers that you may see on a future postcard. The other box are Japanese ‘card + wafer’s for a game series I’ve never played. The cards are plastic with fantastic art though and I like them. I got a second box in a different series as well. (Alas Bandai stopped making wafer cards last year…)
This titanic LEGO kit came from J&J and was a massive surprise since I didn’t even know it existed. A 4000+ piece working roller coaster?!? You can expect a detailed blog post when I get around to building this one!
Bernard sent me these nifty photo coasters, and he was nice enough to include some stylish photos since he knew we didn’t have a printer. They’re extremely well engineered coasters and have already found their way onto our tables and desks!
A surprise gift from KLS was this amazing tiny synthesizer that makes all sorts of groovy electronic sounds and tunes. I’ve only played with it briefly but it seems to have a lot of depth! I’m very impressed so far and looking forward to composing a killer tune on it.
As I said I was spoiled mightily and this post doesn’t even show the model kits (yes plural), the candy (including sent from Australia – thanks SMC!), the shirts (including the one in the first pic – thanks SFL!) and various other items. Special shout out for my birthday cards: I got many this year and they were all extremely high quality 🙂
With birthday cupcake in belly it’s soon time to prepare dinner – Chicken a la Zoffë, Tuscan style is what I’ll cook myself – then an evening of dueling in my new Yu-Gi-Oh game. A great end in other words to a great day!
Mate, you were brought into Sound World in the Hunter Mall more than 21 years ago, but I’m glad you had a great day 🙂
P.S. That LEGO set is the frog’s clogs!