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Photo-A-Day, Toys, Vlog

First Day of School 2016

Eva and Allison on the first day of school
Photo-A-Day #4157

Today was the first day back to school for Eva and Allison. I took photos before school and then they were off. Andrew and I had our first day together in a long while. We worked on a couple of videos. He helped me do some trick shots from the Trick Shot Sports toys. It was a lot of fun working on this and he liked it very much.

Andrew and I picked Eva up at her half day. We went back to the house and Eva helped me start another review and that is something that I’m so excited to show you when it comes out.

When Allison came home we went to our favorite Chinese restaurant for dinner. We were joined by my mom and dad and sister, Tara. Dinner was a great one. Everyone had a good time and we tried a bunch of new things. We still got our old standbys and favorites but there were new choices as well.

The school year is getting underway. Andrew is one week out from his first day and on his first day he is going to choose dinner. Next year we will celebrate on the same day.

Photo-A-Day, Review, Toys, Vlog

Driving and the Xtreme Cycle Moto-Cam Preview

Send off to Deb
Photo-A-Day #4154

We do a sendoff to my supervisor tonight at work. Her name is Deb and our manager brought in Little Debbie snacks for the party. First dad joke that hit all year.

I’ve been trying to get good video for the Xtreme Cycle Moto-Cam. I took it with me yesterday to shoot footage before work. Then this morning I took it back to the skate park a second time to get footage from the Moto-Cam itself. However, I am having trouble with the cycle. It is not recording as I expect and I can’t get the files to use on my computer. They are ending up being unreadable. I’m getting a lot better at driving the cycle but I have crashed it many times and sometimes from great heights. The handlebars are busted, but it still can drive. The gyro is making a god-awful noise, but it still drives. The camera does record and I can see the videos through an app called VLC on my phone, but not my computer.

I ran into a guy at the Skate Park. He watches Youtube videos all the time. Mostly Video games and toy reviews, so I think he found my vlog today and left me a comment. I offered to let him drive the Xtreme Cycle but he didn’t want to, he’d rather watch.

The Xtreme Cycle is overall pretty good, there are some flaws to it but it does do some cool things. I’m beating the heck out of it as I try and get some good footage. There is some footage in today’s video. I edited this very quickly and very sloppily. Sorry about that. Next one will be better.