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Family Adventures, Photo-A-Day

Granite State Comicon 2023 – Day 1

technoblade
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Today I took Eva to the Granite State Comicon in Manchester, NH. The con is one that we have enjoyed going to since our first family trip in 2018. I did attend the very first one way back when they started because I was friends with the organizers. I still am and love to see them at the show each year.

Packed for the con

We packed up the car with our materials for our costumes. Eva was showcasing two of her characters this time out with one on Saturday and one on Sunday. This meant a couple of wigs plus my wig for my costume. We arrived at the convention just as they opened the showroom floor and we got our passes and made a first pass through the entire show. We would do this several more times throughout the weekend because that is what we do, w tour the floors and then go to a couple of the panels.

Cosplay at the con

Eva’s cosplay is of a character called Technoblade. I was doing an original character and when I got to the con I immediately picked up a foam sword to carry around. This is an interesting one with a black blade and what looks like a hand brake for a motorcycle and two parts of brass knuckles. It went with my costume which had a very tech heavy look.

We attended a couple of panels. One on doing makeup and special effects using latex and the other on using different materials in cosplay. I think that Eva enjoyed both of these and got some good ideas. We were able to check into the room at 3pm and I did that on the app and when it was time we went to the car and got our luggage. I stayed in the room for a bit to relax. MY head was hurting from my wig which was very tight. It was so tight that I had a line across my head from it.

I did make it back downstairs to see the costume contest. Eva did not enter this year but there were many great costumes to see. She had a great time and then we headed to get some dinner.

no cjs tonight

We were going to try and get dinner at Cactus Jack’s because they are closing at the end of the year and that was one place that we enjoyed when we were in NH in the past. However, even at 7:30 or so there was a 40 minute wait for two people. We decided that that was too long so we ended up over at T-Bones for dinner instead. Another NH restaurant that I enjoyed when I lived there. It was early to bed tonight because we were exhausted and we still had another day at the con tomorrow.

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Our New Fridge is Here

new fridge
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Our new fridge was installed today. The delivery came around 11am. Because our house is our house the fridge could not come in through the door closest to the kitchen. It had to come in the front door and then through the dining room and then into the kitchen. This meant that I had to remove the swinging door between the dining room and kitchen. I had no idea how to do this but I figured it out. I know the delivery guys were not thrilled to see the way to bring it in. But it got in.

Our house being our house again meant that the space where the fridge went was not plumb and level. When I removed the old fridge there was a set of shingles used as a shim. I had taken them out but when I put the new fridge int he space I knew I needed to put them back. Then when I did that I had to cut a board to put under the right front foot to level it out. I have not used an actual level but it is much more level than it had been and looks pretty straight in the space.

I did try and find a fridge that would allow us to open the doors to the cabinets above the fridge. No such luck, however I can cut the doors to the cabinet above so that they can be opened. I just need some time to do that. The space above is about he only space in the kitchen to really store oversized things that we do not use often like giant muffin pans that should be in an industrial kitchen and not in a regular home. We’d been storing them in the basement but I’m trying to clean up that space as well so upstairs is the better place for them.