BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day #02806 While at Granite State Comicon I visited one of my favorite artists, Bun Leung. I have bought a ton of his art over the years in the form of stickers and a couple of mini prints. This year he has a whole bunch of new stickers including some Transformers ones. I didn't get them all just a couple of Transformers like Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Grimlock and Soundwave. I like the new designs that he put out this year. Tonight I went to see Transformers The Movie at the movie theater. It is still a great movie and it still holds up as far as story and animation. The soundtrack is pretty great, too. There was a 12 minute short at the end which was Peter Cullen's last work as Prime. It was okay, I don't think it was that great but it was interesting. I enjoyed the tribute to him at the beginning of the movie more.

Photo-A-Day #02805 Today was the last day of the convention. Eva went as Pony Boy from The Outsiders. They even made the shirt that Ponyboy wears in the movie. I was again Bobby Singer from Supernatural. I got a new verst and flannel for this year. Was as recognized as I was in past years but that is okay. I had kept my glasses on. We started our morning by going to The Bookery for breakfast. They have a small cafe inside. In the alley before the bookstore there is a bunch of cat themed murals. This is the cat alley. We could have gone over here yesterday and gotten hot dogs from a small place in this alley. Our first stop was the convention center. There are always a few vendors there and I was hoping at an author that I had met last year would be there again this year but they were not. I did get to play the new Transformers pin ball machine. That is a really nice machine. When we were done in the arena we went back to the hotel and went to the main vendor floor. There I saw a person...

Photo-A-Day #02804 Today was the first day for us to experience the Granite State Comicon 2026. This is an event that Eva and I do every year and it has become our tradition. This year was extra special because it was the first time I had been able to see Eva since they headed to college. We started our morning 0out be going to Mokapot for some breakfast sandwiches and beverages. When we got back to the hotel it was time to get into our costumes. I was a character from the Dungeon Crawler Carl books, Big Tina. Big Tina is a t-rex that wants to put on a recital because Big Tina is actually a bear cub child that was turned into a dinosaur. I put my costume together from a mishmash of stuff from Amazon. Eva sewed the tiara on for me. This year Eva has been excited about The Lost Boys (both movie and musical). Eva's character is Star from the Lost boys movie. That is the version that Eva based the costume on. Star is also in the musical and maybe Eva will do that character int he futur...

Photo-A-Day #02803 Today after work I took a big bag of mini pretzels (minis) with me to pick up Eva from school. I drove into Boston found a parking spot and walked to the Treehouse. Eva came down and I gave them the pretzels to bring up to their roommates. Then we got on the road to New Hampshire. On the way up we stopped at The Common Man in Windham, NH. It was a very nice meal. Eva and I got to talk all about the first couple of weeks that they have been in school. School is going great for Eva. They like their roommates, are making friends and classes are going great. We continued on to the hotel where we would be staying for the weekend. We got up just a bit too late to get our badges. We did run into a couple of my friends who organize the convention and got a good night's sleep.

Photo-A-Day #02802 Every so often I get a sensor fail for my Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM). It happens enough that I always take a photo of the box so I can get all the numbers I need when submitting a claim for a new one. This one will fail tomorrow at 4:00am. They never fail at a good time. When that happens my phone alarms. Never any issue going on with me, just the device failing. It is a pain in the neck. Quiet day around here. Even quieter at work without our student intern. But it was still hopping from time to time. From pizzas to milkshakes and everything in between. I find myself going in many directions at once. We started the night thinking that we had to put together 2 Too Good Too Go bags only to have someone buy 1 and then another person buy the last two during the time of pickup. Well, I had only made 2 bags initially, then I took everything in the case for the third bag and when I learned that we had the last two bags I had to scramble to make everything a...

Photo-A-Day #02801 My mom was up visiting from the Cape today. I went over and took a walk with her around my Aunt Donna's neighborhood. One of the houses had this little fairy house and mushrooms.  Then I had work and today was another day with our student intern. By the time I got home every part of my nerve endings was fried. The kid is autistic and very very loud. I try and be as patient as possible. Not easy. When I headed home I dropped back over to my Aunt's house to drop off pretzels for her. also some of my coffee caramel dip for the pretzels.