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A Return Trip From #Dad2Summit – I Got my Skylanders Imaginators ZookaSarus Rex!

ZookaSarus Rex
Photo-A-Day #4325

Today I returned home from the Dad 2.0 Summit. I wasn’t sure what would await me in terms of the snow that would be all over my car. I had to park on the roof of the parking garage when I flew out and it snowed multiple times while I was gone. The snow was what made me arrive a couple of hours after I was scheduled to arrive home in the first place. I finally arrived home around 3:30pm. Not terrible but not great, the day was pretty much shot. Everyone at home had been enjoying, or was quite sick of, the snow that we had. Thanks to Allison and the kids and our neighbors and my dad came to shovel us out while I was gone. I now have to figure out what to do about the snowblower as it is not functioning.

I also returned home to a bunch of boxes. I received packages containing some LEGO Dimensions packs including the LEGO Batman Movie Story Pack and the Excalibur Batman Fun Pack. These are for reviews later on. I also received the Skylanders Imaginator that I created and had 3D printed. It came out so good, too. My friend Wayne sent me a ton of Modibot pieces and figures so that I could use them to try and make some stop motion videos. I also received the Loot Crate Marvel Gear + Goods crate and I’ll do an interesting unboxing later this week, too.

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Home From Blogger Bash – One Last Slice of NYC Pizza

My Last New York Slice
Photo-A-Day #4111

I said goodbye to Tim this morning as he headed off to his train and then his flight home. After that I went back to the room and hung out for a while. I tried to get a little more sleep but that didn’t quite happen. So I eventually got my stuff together, I was able to pack pretty much everything including a giant box that Adam Cohen got for me at Sweet Suite. I did not think that that would be coming home with me but it did.

It was somewhat warm when I started out on my trek back to Penn Station. It was a nice morning to walk along and I rigged up the bags so it was easy to walk with them. I try to walk as much as possible when in New York.

I had to get another slice of New York Pizza, which I did at the train station. Then it was time to get on the train.

The wifi was out so I did not get a chance to do much work on my laptop but I did turn on my hotspot in order to do some things on the laptop. I was distracted though. The guy behind me continued to hum the entire trip. It was so distracting.

The trip was mostly uneventful and I took the time to post a bunch of images to Instagram. However, when we got 10 minutes away from Providence we came to a complete stop. We sat there on the track for the next hour and a half. I was annoyed. I understand that there are delays. In this situation one of the lights was messed up telling us that we could not proceed. Then, once the light was fixed we still could not proceed. I had to blast my headphones so I didn’t snap on the the people on the train, not because of the issue with the train but because of the reaction of the other riders. You get the complainers, the experts and the Monday morning quarterbacks.

For me personally, I would have liked to have gotten home at 2:30 as expected. Maybe get to leisurely unpack the things from Blogger Bash and maybe even get a little rest before heading to work. Instead I was super keyed up and flew in, dumped out all my swag, got annoyed at the kids and flew back out the door where I would be in bad shape all night. We did, at least, stop for a few minutes and listen to another chapter of Harry Potter. But I would have rather been back home with 2 hours of time instead of getting home two hours late.

I was soehwat productive on the train. I redesigned my title images for Youtube. What do you think?