Daily Archives: February 6, 2019

Photo-A-Day

The Run Around

RMV Ticket
Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00037

Today was a day full of running around. I had to get Allison’s car inspected and so I went over to pick it up and then then drove it around a little bit so that it would be warmed up for the inspection. I got to Achin’s and went to get the registration. It wasn’t there. I could not beleive it. I knew that I had renewed the registration and I swear it should have been there.

So I went back to the house to look through all the paperwork from the last three months. I also checked the Quicken program to make sure that I had in fact paid for the new registration. I had. I was unable to find the registration and so I looked online for getting a replacement registration. I learned that I could get a replacement at the RMV for $25. The image today is of my ticket while I waited. The thing is, my time at the RMV was the quickest and least painful part of running all around. It was super quick and efficient. When I told them what had happened they asked if I wanted the 2020 sticker for the license plate. I said yes but it made me wonder, was there a 2020 sticker on the plate already. If it was then I had to have had the registration at some point.

Sticker was on the plate.

With new Registration secured I ran back over to Achin’s and got the sticker for the car. I am really annoyed that I cannot find where the actual registration is, because I paid for it, I put the sticker on the car and I’m usually very good at these things. I would have put the sticker on the car and then put the registration in the car. And no, it wasn’t in my car. I checked.

At least it is all done for another year.

Review, Toys

Review: Potato Pirates from ThinkFun

Potato Pirates

We received a copy of The Potato Pirates from ThinkFun for free to play with and review. Opinions are our own.

When we first tried out this game it was just Andrew and me playing. The thing is, you need 3 people to play the game properly and with even more people playing the game takes longer but is much more fun. We played as a full family of four later on and it was a fantastic game that took us about an hour. The game has easy concepts to understand but they build upon each other and the sneaky pirates teach kids coding concepts.

Gameplay is a series of turns where players create functions for their attacks and then attack on subsequent turns. So the first time around the pirates set up their attacks. On their next turn they decide which players to attack. Occasionally players will find a Potato King and shout “All Hail” and that makes the whole table shout and salute as fast as they can so as not to be the last. The last player to shout “Potato King” and salute as to give away 2 of their potato pirates. There are seven potato kings ans so there ends up being lots of shouting and laughter.

It was great seeing the kids gain understanding on how to make their attacks more devastating through proper coding techniques like if then else statements. While I did win the game in the end the kids made it quite difficult for me to do so. I think the more we play the harder it will be for me to win against these quick learning kids.

Andrew and I made a video about the game.

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