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Pretzel Perks ...

Photo-A-Day #02646 Had a regular day at work with my new schedule. I'm doing 1:30-6:30pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. that means closing up and that means taking pretzels home. I can't be eating these and there are only so many that the family can eat. Allison took two bags to school and I tossed the rivets into the compost. Eva took a few for her friends as well.  Today at the end of work we had a bunch of stuff that had been baked and Tim, my boss, had me take a bunch home. I was planning on having one of the pepperoni pretzel items, it was baked almost right before we left for the night. I had it in the bag of all the big pretzels. On the way to the car I saw a UPS driver eyeing me and my big bags of pretzels. I asked him if he wanted one. I said, take whatever you'd like and he saw the pepperoni and grabbed that. I had not specified that I had wanted that but it is probably for the best since that has a lot of carbs. He was very grateful and happy so that is good.
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Toxic Prime ...

Photo-A-Day #02645 They really do an amazing job photographing items on Temu. I thought I was getting a much bigger Optimus Prime in toxic colors. It is super tiny but really well detailed. It does come with some attachments like additional hands for posing and also the energon axe from the first episode of the show. I have not transformerd it yet but it is a bit loose. For now it is just in there for display.

Stay Seated ...

Photo-A-Day #02644 It was beyond time for a new chair in the office. I had so many extra attachments and lumbar things added to my old chair that it was barely the chair that I had pre-pandemic. So I ordered a new one and this one has a footrest for when I really want to lay back and relax when I'm working late at night and the sleepiness strikes. I'll try and fight it but can't always. So at least I can be in comfort. I did keep a few of the extras that I had bought like the lumbar pillow and the special cushion for the seat. It is a good thing, too, this new seat is like sitting on a concrete bench. 

Post Apocalyptic Movie Night ...

Photo-A-Day #02643 At work tonight I decided to do osme movie watching and started with the 2025 movie The Running Man with Glen Powell and then once that was over I went for the 1987 one with Arnold Schwarzenegger. We can now make popcorn at work again. So I had some as I watched the first movie. Of course, 1987 was peak Arnold movie time. He was in many movies over the 80's including doing both Predator and The Running Man in 1987. Interestingly enough Jesse Ventura was in both movies with him. I really enjoyed the original movie but the remake was very entertaining as well.

LEGO Toothless ...

Photo-A-Day #02642 My sister, Tara sent me a gift card for Amazon and I used it to buy myself a fun LEGO set. I picked up the Toothless figure from How To Train Your Dragon. It was a great build. I made it while I watched the crew of the Artemis II return to Earth. It was amazing to watch. Really was something to see. I watched until the very end when the crew made it to the med bay of the naval ship.

Birthday 52 In The Books ...

Photo-A-Day #02641 I turned 52 today. When I came downstairs Allison showed me the fridge. Overnight one of the bottles of milk froze and exploded. I'm glad that I did not have work today because the whole morning was taken up with taking everything out of the fridge and cleaning up the spilled milk. Quite the metaphor for growing up Gen X. Not to cry over spilled milk because it can always be worse. Once the fridge was fully cleaned and everything was put back in I was able to get a little time to myself to relax. Played some Styx and some Fortnite and got to enjoy my new office chair. It had been far too long in replacing that one.  I headed over to have lunch with Mom and Dad. We ate at The Tavern. I had short ribs and mashed potatoes. They were excellent. Then I hung out in the Shaw's parking lot until it was time to pick up Eva. Running home would not have made much sense. So I picked up Eva and we headed home. Mom and Dad finished all their errands and then met us at the ...

Special Pretzel Delivery ...

Photo-A-Day #02640 Today after work at The Pretzel Factory I took a box of 50 pretzels over to Saint Mary-Sacred Heart School for the teachers. Today at work I made the pretzel cheese dogs. When I arrived the owners were in the middle of making 300+ pretzels because they had a big order for one of the local school districts. We ended up making 4 batches of dough through the morning. Michelle was still twisting pretzels when I left for the day.