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Good Friday Morning Pixlbit Nation! How are you folks today? It is a warm 85 degrees here in Sunny Southern California. I think we are getting some much needed rain in the next couple of days because there is a Hurricane off the coast of Baja than is pulling/bringing the wet stuff.

 

Today is also a big day in Southern California because Disneyland turns 60 years old. Many moons ago when I was a happy Cast Member I worked the 45^th Birthday where we were given special buttons and a couple of guests offered money for them. I have it somewhere on a lanyard in box. Anyways-Happy Birthday Disneyland! A couple of fun Disneyland/Chris facts:

1. I visited Walt’s Apartment while on a special tour for Disney College Program Cast Members
2. While doing some training, my lead decided it would be more fun to roam around the back of the park. We sat where they (at the time) parked the submarines backstage (ooh Disney lingo), I walked around the little room under Tom Sawyer’s Island where the Fantasmic Dragon lives, and watched the fireworks show from backstage
3. I miss the super cheap fried chicken. The cast member eatery, The Inn-Between, is right behind The Plaza Inn that serves the same food but costs a lot more.
4. There was a Mortal Kombat III machine in the break room that was free, and I spent a lot of time there. One day a headless Goofy walked in, and proceeded to kick my behind.
5. Some famous folks I met while as a happy Cast Member: Axel Rose (not friendly), Hugh Hefner and his then seven girlfriends, Tim Salmon after a game we watched backstage, and Rob Schneider (very friendly). Some of the Disney family would appear every now and then

 

Chris Watches…

Big Brother Live Feed: I’ve been hooked on the live feed for about a couple of weeks now. My routine is a little odd because I’ll watch it from 11 to midnight, go to sleep, wake up around 2 or 3ish and watch another half hour before going back to sleep. Around lunch I’ll catch up from the point I fell asleep earlier in the morning. A couple of times the shame kicked in with me waking up with the iPad on the bed and the “Are you still watching” screen is on.

Castaway: This was the first time my younger cousins watched this flick so at times I sat down with them to watch. I might have spoiled some of it because when they told me they wanted to watch Castaway on the PS4 I would say “WILSON, I’m sorry. I’m sorry Wilson” I’d get puzzled looks. After the movie they were all saying Wilson!

Some Random Thomas The Train Movie: I had no idea Alec Baldwin was in these flicks. I was like “Hey” and my uncle said “yeah he’s in these flicks.”

Jeopardy!: I’ve gotten my cousins hooked on the show (13 and 10) We keep score on who answered the most and their rules are those numbers don’t mean anything when it comes to final Jeopardy! They know their history because the question about the Louisiana Purchase is common knowledge at their schools. I cleaned up on categories like TV Dads, and Fiction, so we’re even.

50 First Dates: This has become my cousin’s favorite movie, and its quite funny. Rob Schnider’s pidgin is pretty good, and I asked my cousins why they don’t speak pidgin. I’m terrible at it, but I have a couple of phrases and I asked them why the number three is pronounced “Tree”

Tour de France: I was watching it every morning but for the past couple of days I have no idea what’s going on. Local news guy is more concerned with trying to push his really bad catch phrase “Hey…did you catch this.” The scenery is freaking awesome because the small towns you see, you just don’t have anything like it in America, and its always fun to see those nut jobs run beside individual riders and some get in their way.

 

Chris Listens To…

History: America’s Greatest Hits: As I currently type this blog entry I am listening to the second part of the album. One of my friends in college is big into classic rock and she liked them so I listened to them and it turned out a couple of songs were from my childhood. Anyways I thought I would give it a listen today to break up the podcasts, and Top 200 playlist on my phone/iTunes.

And Janet Jackson borrowed a certain guitar riff

 

Chris Takes Pictures

Ok so the first shot is when for some reason everyone was outside earlier this week and I brought out my camera because I thought a certain cloud formation was interesting. It was around 8ish and I spotted this

 

It was only a small section but I like the color

 

A little bit later as the clouds were moving I saw that they were just above the two planets that are really visible right now

 

Before going inside for the night I decided to take a quick shot of the neighbor’s homes

 

It’s cropped but and I did some manipulating on Photoshop but I liked how three houses all had the American Flags up. One of my neighbors even had a streamer of what I think was a battle he took part in. Super nice guy and the first person I met here.

 

We celebrated my cousin’s birthday with a nice bundt cake from Nothing Bundt Cakes and I thought I’d change up the cloud pictures with a cake that was really good…and the frosting kind of looks like a cloud.

 

My final picture was fun one I took with my phone after watching the Superman/Batman movie (again I don’t have high hopes for it, and I’m pre-blaming Batman)

 

My friend and I think there is going to be a lot of staring.

 

Chris Does Manly Stuff

So the window on the driver’s side door decided to break and my uncle and I were going to fix it (it was 90/10 his work. I was there)

 

Thanks to the YouTube app on the iPad “we” figured out how to remove the paneling and see the guts inside the door. I had no idea the window that big of a piece, and props to the designers who figured out how to stuff a bunch of things inside

 

Here’s the little motor that raises and lowers the window. The cable on one side snapped so the window was stuck. Thankfully Auto Zone had a replacement and under an hour everything was replaced. I threw away the old stuff while wearing gloves so you could say it was now 80/20 of my uncle’s work.

 

Chris Goes Random…

Comic Book Movies:

I’ll check out Ant-Man next week. I was going to watch today but its hot, and besides the trip to deposit my paycheck at the bank was enough traveling today (and maybe a little trip to Ross on the way home for some cool cheap finds)

 

So new X-Men is going to have Jennifer Lawrence, Olivia Munn, and Kate Mara sounds freaking awesome on paper.

I thought the trailer for Harley Quinn: The Movie…err Suicide Squad looked interesting. It’s a shame that DC isn’t connecting the Suicide Squad from the TV Universe because I really liked that group. I hoping for the best for Squad but I’m not digging Joker.

 

While roaming around the garage look what I found for my flashback toy

 

Check out the original price from Gemco

 

I remember my mom put it on layaway at Gemco (remember Gemco?) and we went to pick it up a week or two before Christmas. My Voltron was the fun one with lead paint. My cousin had the plastic one that you stick the figures in. My first original Voltron was the Japanese toy where the missles on the Yellow Lion’s back and ears would actually shoot. The American ones didn’t have the springs.

I have a new appreciation for Capri Sun and Otter Pops. I’m really digging the Otter Pops and I have a freezer full of them. I think they could be a good breakfast.

 

Pickups!

Games

So physical games this week, but while sitting next to my younger cousin talking about strategies for his Springfield in Tapped Out I spotted the sale banner in the app store and picked up three games for .99 cents each

 

It’s Goat Simulator, how do you not buy it for a buck?

 

This is the first flying game I bought since I bought the apps that came with little gliders a couple of Christmas’ ago.

 

Spider-Man is like the Batman games where you tap to hit the people and you have to watch out for the enemies with the lightning bolts above their head because they are going to hit you next.

I might used these games for $5 Hour

 

Music

Brian Wilson’s CD dropped to $7 and I thought it was a good time to give it a try. It’s all new stuff.

 

I haven’t listened to it all, I’ve skipped to some collaboration with She & Him, Sebu, and Kacey Musgraves. You can hear Beach Boys in the songs with some modern twists.

 

Here’s a live version. So far I like the album and it has a nice summer beach vibe.

 

Toys

I think I’m cooling on the Hot Wheels Hype. Earlier today I was at Walmart and just scanned the section. I did buy a couple at Toys R Us when I was taking advantage of a Lego sale

 

I couldn’t remember if I already bought this blue version of the Batman Live Batmobile so I bought it again. I also found the Aston Martin in the silver that I remember from the Bond flicks.

 

I finally added this Lego Batmobile to the collection and all I am missing now in the Batman releases are the Batman Mech, the submarine, and a little set with the Aquasuit and Penguin. I like this set more than the earlier 2012 set Batmobile. This one looks more like a racecar.

 

Alright Pixlbit, my weekend has started and I’d like to catch some Big Brother Feed, and maybe take a nap. Have a good weekend!

 

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris

 

So here’s a little flashback I posted on Instagram a couple of years ago with the caption “Me and some peeps in front of a lady’s house in Anaheim”

 

When I worked at the Blue Ribbon Bakery I would always hear this parade. I think I’ve only seen it once or twice but I memorized it and funny thing is that I can still recite what the voice says (it also helps that I have the audio track on my iPod)

Happy 60th Happiest Place on Earth!