Summer time

Just a quick post regarding my upcoming summer vacation times.  At work we were short staffed forever, but finally hired three people to help out.  We hired someone to work Monday to Friday mornings, someone to work nights and a third person to work Friday to Monday anytime.  Then the guy who works nights decided to quit and the person to work Friday to Monday seems like she can't ever work due to prior commitments, so it's like we really only hired like half a person for a few mornings a week.  I'm still taking time off though!

I had originally wanted to take three separate weeks off, but I cut that back to two since we don't have enough people to work.  I'll only be taking two different weeks off this summer, in July I'm off the 9th to the 15th and in August I'm off the 16th to the 25th.  The July one is just a week away!  I haven't actually taken more than a couple days off since the end of last September.  The time in August might get changed a bit, but just moved forward a couple days.

I will be in Cranbrook, of course, and Kootenay Lake too.  Not sure if anyone else will be around.  I know Cam won't, and I had hoped to go to Kelowna or something on one of original three weeks off.  Maybe if we can hire someone who actually wants to work, I can take some time off in the fall.  Cam and Mike, are your parents going to in Cranbrook the 9th to the 15th?  I got crap to drop off there.  Also, I hear I have stuff to pick up there.  If not, I guess I'll have to hang out with Willie.  Maybe we can film a dumb new movie.

Do over

When I did up the picture for the Star Wars "army" guys the other day I was a little disappointed with how the Stormtrooper picture turned out, so I decided to give in another try.  It's not great, but slightly better than my first try.  What do you guys think?  Any suggestions to make it look better?

Gone too soon

Rip Run DMC seat cover

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Plastic guys

Remember back in the day those little plastic green army dudes?  They were in different poses with different guns, but my favourite was the rocket launcher guy.  I'm pretty sure I still have my army guys back in Cranbrook in an old milk bag.  I haven't really looked for them in stores in about say 30 years or so, but they are back now in Star Wars form as Star Wars Command figure.

I got an Empire pack with two Stormtroopers, two crouched Stormtroopers, two Tie Fighter pilots, two Imperial Guards and a exclusive Emperor Palpatine.  Looks like every pack comes with a 9th exclusive figure.  I'm not if the figure itself exclusive or it's a special paint/coloured version of an existing figure.

You can get the smaller sets and larger "assault" packs which come with vehicles.  I don't like how they mix the classic character with new characters from Star Wars Rebels.  That's why I picked the pack I did because it was all the original guys.  Plus an Emperor figure with blue hands is pretty cool.

I think he got frostbite on his hands.

It's a screen capture from A New Hope!  I like how the one guy is crouched to help get a more accurate shot.  I doesn't help.

I think these guys are pretty cool and would look nice on your desk or shelf next to your Hot Wheels die cast vehicles.  I bought my pack on sale and just like the Hot Wheels I'd like to get some more in the future, but I'll wait till they are on sale again.

Hilarious!

Will Ferrell is a hilarious(ly bad) baseball player.

Not quite free

Today's "free" cereal offer comes from Kellogg's Special K as a cereal & milk to go cup.  It's actually pretty cool except I put the word free in quotations marks because while the to go cup is free, you still have to pay the shipping on it.

At least the cup only require one PIN code and not multiples ones.  Though I can see why they are charging $3.00 for shipping as the cup is pretty large.  I probably won't get a cup due to the fact that I just don't want to pay the shipping, even if that $3 shipping is actually pretty cheap considering Canada Post mailing fees lately.  If I ever find $3 on the ground somewhere I'll use it for the cup which will then sit in the cupboard unused.  Money well spent!

Pew pew

Okay, now the multiplayer game play trailer for Battlefront is out.  It's set on Hoth, but I didn't even see any tauntauns, so hopefully Dice fixes that before release date.  Also sucks that it's only 40 player battles, BF4 was 64!

Kevin Smith and Star Wars

Don't worry this doesn't have anything to do with Kevin Smith doing something with the Star Wars franchise I'm just cramming two small things into one blog post and one has to do with Kevin Smith and the other, Star Wars.

First up, yesterday I came home from work and was bored, so I was looking on Instagram on my phone and in the "Search" menu I was going through the random images and came across one with Kevin Smith.  I clicked on it and then went to browse his feed and apparently he's planning on doing Mallrats 2 aka Mallbrats.  He's even lined all the actors from the first film to return with the exception of Affleck.  Not sure how I feel about this, of course I'll see when it comes out.  As long as Brodie is still ranting about that kid on the escalator I'll be good.

After that I went downstairs and turned on the TV and on Comedy they were showing Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.  Not sure why this was on there as every time Jay opened his mouth half his dialogue was removed.  Unless someone at the network thought it was funny just for that reason alone.

STAR WARS!!  E3 is currently under way and they released a new trailer for Star Wars: Battlefront.  Unlike the first trailer, this one actually has gameplay footage in it...PS4 footage.  Check it out below.

It's supposed to be a mainly multiplayer game with no actual campaign to it, but there are solo/co-op missions which is what was shown in the trailer.  I like how the player runs around dropping Stormtroopers while shooting one handed and the Stormtroopers can't hit nothing.  Classic Star Wars, I bet even Cam is excited for this.