BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day #02853 We have a customer at the Pretzel Factory who works next door at Edible Arrangements. Her name is Kaylee and she comes in all the time and buys Monster Energy drink. Those drinks have special colored pop tabs. Andy has been making really cool little beetles with the pop tabs. I asked Kaylee if she would mind saving them for me so I can give them to Andy. She said sure and that she also had a ton of pop tabs at home that she and her sister had been saving for years. Yesterday she came in and handed me two large bottles full of tabs. Today I woke up and heard Andy sorting through them all. They had poured them all out and was separating them into different colors and types. Apparently there are a bunch of soup container pop tabs as well. In Andy's words "There is an alarming number of soup tabs." Yes, yes there are. That very large pile off to the right of Andy are soup tabs. Andy is not sure what they can make out of them but I am sure it will be somethi...

Photo-A-Day #02852 You'll notice that the warming cabinet is empty. That is my fault. I added water to the little reservoir and it overflowed. I thought I had cleaned it up well but apparently I did not. A while later it shut off. The register also shut off. Water had gotten inside and shorted it out. My boss had to take it apart and we dried it as best that we could. However, it kept shorting out. So, we waited for an hour or so and tried again. Luckily the case finally dried out and we were able to put everything back in it.  I now know how very small that reservoir is. I also know how easily water can get into the electronics of the unit. It was not a good day at work. 

Photo-A-Day #02851 Andy made a Homecoming proposal poster for their girlfriend. Andy choose titles from a band called Panic at the Disco to make the sign. Andy also made a really cool minecraft cat to give to Jazzy. Andy was going to do it this morning. Hope it went well. Not that there is any real pressure when you already have a girlfriend. But... we always want our kids to do better than we did. Andy certainly is.

Photo-A-Day #02850 On the way to work I stopped at Dunkin donuts because they were supposed to have the new Avengers: Doomsday promotional items. I found all the things and picke dup one of the tumblers and promptly pt it back when I saw it was $25. I don't need a new tumbler for that amount for any reason. I have two water bottles, one for Work and one for Home/Work in the Office. I also picked up my comic books. M.A.S.K. and GI JOE / Tomb Raider. This is a great crossover. Work was okay, I'm sort of getting a bit tired of the terrible communication and also being the one picking up after my boss all the time. I learned that I had two hours cut from my schedule on Friday. While the extra time at home is fine I'm missing out on some money and that is why I am working. The tough thing is that this business is struggling. I have my thoughts on why but I'll keep them to myself. It would be nice for a raise at some point but they can barely afford it.Let's hope that Tim...

Photo-A-Day #02849 Today were the mid-term elections. Allison and I got up early and headed to the polls in Attleboro. Allison wanted to get voting in before school and I wanted to get it done as soon as I could. The last time I voted I was so hopeful afterwards (I'm not counting the primaries, I did vote in them but that was neither hopeful nor super important to me) only to be completely crushed that night by the stupidity of the majority of Americans. Knowingly voting for a shambling garbage pile that barely passes for human astounded me and set me into a two year depression. But I'm a dad who has to keep going for my kids so that depression just gets focused into more and more bitterness and sarcasm. It was like every movie, tv show and book I had ever read where the hero wins was a complete and utter lie.It was crushing. So, today when so many elections across the country are poised to take back our country from the atrocious corrupt individuals in power I can't quite ...

Photo-A-Day #02848 Took andy to get one of their buttons fixed on their Invisalign today and afterwards we ran to Walmart to pick up some crafting materials. Andy wanted to make some eyeballs for some reason and so we found some foam golf balls that they could sand down to make smooth so that they could then paint the golf balls to look like eyeballs. Why? Just something to make. We got various other things and I think in the weeks ahead we will see more creativity coming form this arts and crafts area.