BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02527 It is very fitting that I received this note along with the final two Transformers Generation 1 comics for my collection. Issues 72 and 77 are now in my possession. I had many conversations with this seller. We even shared photos of our Transformers toy collections. He was really excited by my love for the franchise and was glad to sell the books to me. This note shows a great deal of care that he took with his books and also with making my purchase special. He couldn't have known that this would be my last comics for my completed collection or rather that they would arrive last. Just very cool to see that he cared. 

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02526 I continue to find cool things for my Wheeljack collection.The figure is Wheeljack from Transformers One prior to getting back his transformation cog. He's standing on two comic books. They are Transformers #21 of the new Skybound continuity. The covers, however are done by Tiago Da Silva my new favorite Transformers artist. He's done handful of these special covers for Transformers comics. today I received about 7 of them and learned that there are still 2 more that I do not have. What he does is creates one cover of a shiny new robot and the other cover is battle damaged. So the left one is battle damaged and the right is pristine. It is a very cool concept that he's done for many great characters. What turned me on to his covers and artwork was this Wheeljack set. I'm really excited to have it now!

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02525 Today Allison and I went to see my ACT friends Fred and Han in A Christmas Carol. They are part of the Roundabout Productions theater company and they performed A christmas Carol. Fred was Scrooge and han was Fred and also Young Scrooge. It was a good show. There was also a lot of music in the show with some traditional old English Christmas carols. It was nice to see them perform. Fred was a perfect Scrooge. I think they may have even repurposed some materials from Sly Fox like the bed from the show. It certainly looked familiar.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02524 Tonight Andy and I went to Boston for the Mix 104.1 Deck The Hall Ball. This was Andy's big birthday gift because the headliner was AJR. They were excellent to see in person. Their songs are fun and there was one point where they even broke down how they created the song "World's Smallest Violin". IT was super cool to watch.  There were two opening acts and they were pretty good. Andy was super enthusiastic when AJR came on. Clapping for each song and swaying to the music. Big smile on their face, too. We had pretty decent seats. The music was LOUD so I am glad that I had bought some LOOP ear protection before the show. They really helped me enjoy things so much more. It was a good time. Lots of fun with Andy.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02523 Tonight Allison had Colleen over and the two of them made meatballs. They made a ton of them and when they were done let Me and the kids have a couple before they were all packed up for meals. I think Allison said she got enough made for four meals for us and Colleen took the other half of them home with her.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02522 Tonight we went to see The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge at the Attleboro Community Theater. Many folks who were in the play had been in plays with me in the past and it was night to see everyone. A couple of people who were also in plays with me were there in the audience and they are in plays themselves. They are in The Christmas Carol and I'm going to go see that Sunday. It was a nice show and I even won tickets to come back to another show. So I have at least two tickets already taken care of for my show, The Winter Wolf in March.