I work with a bunch of video game junkies. We have an entire interest channel in Slack dedicated to videogaming. I follow the channel and participate a little bit here and there. But I'm not much of a gamer so I don't contribute to it to quite the same degree that some people do.

Not that anyone asked for it, but I made a video of me solving a Rubik’s Cube anyway.

I totally appreciate attention to detail in life. Doesn’t have to be anything big, either. I just like knowing that someone cared about something… anything… enough to take time to put in a little extra effort.

After giving myself a bit of a mental kick in the arse by blogging about it, I apparently redoubled my efforts and have managed to commit the rest of the Rubik’s Cube algorithms to memory.

At some point in the past that I cannot find anymore, I wrote about how my wife and I like to take stickers and put them inside our phone cases to spice them up a bit. But we don’t peel the backs off so we can swap them out easily with no case damage.

Yesterday marked our now annual one-day visit to the three-day Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, also known as C2E2.

I’ve been playing around with an app called LensFX on my iPhone to apply visual effects to some of my toy photography. I’ve used it primarily for lightning and lens flares and fog and some textures.

I've spent a small amount of time over the course of the last year or so trying to memorize the algorithms that will solve the infamous Rubik's Cube. 

OUR PASSES FOR C2E2 ARE FINALLY HERE!!

I snapped this photo of two action figures recently.

The creativity of some people just astounds me. It would be one thing to see a build of a lifesize LEGO tuna.

I absolutely love low tech solutions to high tech problems. Like parents who want their kids to pay more attention to what's going on around them. For that, here's one possibility...

The purge continues at Kasa Kapgar. Today, while we didn't collect quite so much in the way of donations, we did get rid of a few things, but we focused on cleaning our master bedroom. A purge of filth, as it were. And while it was hard work -- lots of dusting, vacuuming, steam cleaning, rearranging, laundry, etc. -- it felt good. 

I received an email from the Overlords du FitBit (read: Google) announcing that some changes are coming to our beloved platform.

In celebration of the last three Friday the 13ths, I’ve run a personal toy photography challenge wherein I use a Jason Voorhees toy of some sort in a series of photos for the Monday thru Friday leading up to the 13th.

I had to buy a new multi-plug adapter today to replace one that I’ve had for years. The one I replaced was an Apple branded product which, of course, means that a new one would be pricey.

Dammit, UPS!! When is my package arriving???? I know this says by 9 p.m. tonight, but as each minute wears on, I feel less and less confident this is actually going to happen today.

I recently started taking a deeper dive into  3D printing. No, I do not own a printer. No, I do not design things to be printed. But I've gone on a Google quest to see what kinds of .stl (stereolithography) files can be found for downloading and printing.

I usually try to keep my personal and toy photography blogs separate. No real reason why, I just do. But I have to admit that I'm really proud of how this shot I took earlier today turned out so I wanted to share it here for my two readers.

We do a fairly simple, yet fun, setup in front of our house for Halloween. Some pumpkins, a spinning light display, fake spider webbing that we added this year, a Frankenstein's monster painted decorative pumpkin on top of our tall arbor vitae, and a large inflated and internally lit Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

I'm just gonna say it, slam me if you will, but digital assistants bug me. I know I tried to get into it for the purpose of home automation a few years ago. But when that bombed out, I became nothing but skeptical of them and their "abilities."

A classic iPod with on-board WiFi, Bluetooth, and Spotify streaming? That would be so cool!

Did I mention that yesterday at C2E2, I met Michael Rooker, the actor from The Guardians of the Galaxy, The Walking Dead, The Belko Experiment, Cliffhanger, and Mallrats, among sooo much more.

I was perusing the r/starwarsblackseries subreddit when I saw this unfortunate photo of a poorly molded Clone Commander Cody and the original poster asking for advice on how to fix it.

Wow. When Fitbit says you can only change your profile name once every 60 days, they meant it. I only today was finally able to change the name on my Fitbit account back to Kevin from Nathan.

Spend this Friday the 13th with someone special.

After nearly two decades of receiving crap charging cables from Apple for use with everything from iPods to iPads to iPhones to mice to keyboards, I had given up hope on them ever providing me with a quality cable.

I really need to break out my old Sony Alpha D-SLR and try out some of these tricks. This guy (CrimsonViper1138) has some really simple ideas that look fantastic.

I gotta admit that I’m kinda in love with my new Fitbit watch face.

Nathan expressed an interest in trying out a FitBit to see how many steps he takes especially with an upcoming vacation we’re going on. So Katie dig out her old pre-Apple Phone FitBit Versa and we charged it up.

Today, Katie, Nathan, and I went with our neighbors to the Northern Illinois LEGO Train Club show at the Geneva Public Library.

I’m currently In the market for a new external/primary monitor  to attach to my laptop when I’m working from home. A second screen is the only way to go in the QA world!

I’m an Apple fan. Have been since 1999 and, no matter how many missteps they make, I’m sure it will remain this way.

Everyone… literally everyone… is out of the gift we want to get for a certain someone. And they won’t have it in stock until mid-January at the earliest.

A co-worker shared this video with me and... I have no words.