1-Up!

 Are you aware that you can purchase a huge almost-real-sized arcade cabinet for your house? Normally these are sold for hundreds of dollars, but if you were lucky, you could have gotten one on clearance for much much less. Such a thing happened for us, except we were not the lucky ones to find it, but luckily someone far away picked one up for us. And then... BOOM! Pandemic! Nobody could travel anywhere. So it wasn't until our recent trip down to Virginia that we were finally able to pick this thing up and drag it back home.

The box says two-person lift! But it wasn't that bad and had very comfy handle holes in the sides, so my friend got it without my help, however much help a tiny pony could have given. This thing is obviously going to need some assembly.

Collectibles

 Still have some more pictures from our trip down to Virginia. I guess it's obvious by now that we have a hobby to hunt for collectible treasures, and we know of a few places we like to check whenever we get down to the home town. We might not find anything to buy, but surely we can get some pictures of fun stuff.

There was a new place we were told about called Yester Toys near the Sam's Club on "The Blvd". It was small but jam-packed with fun things to see, like this 2008 Futurama Robot Santa set. Due to a flaw in his programming, he judges everybody to be naughty. Your mistletoe is no match for his T.O.W. missile!

Long-Awaited Visit

 Happy 4th of July! Well, that's the weekend I took these picture. It had been the first big trip taken since Covid locked down the world. There was plenty of enjoying the family time, but I also found the time to snap some pictures.

Isn't this a thing of beauty? A festive Krispy Kreme donut. Let's not get all worked up over the treats, the family visit is the best part of the trip.

551 Days Later

 To quote video game legend Mario: Let's a-go! It's been a long time dealing with the Covid 19 World, but now that the whole family has been "fully vaccinated" it was time for a trip back home to Virginia! So lets get some pictures to share! This first bunch of pictures is from the general travelling, something we have not really done for about 18 months!

The traffic was forecast to be "the worst in years" with everyone finally free to move about. Already It backed up for a while on the NJ Turnpike and we made a stop at the last um... stop... before the Delaware bridge. No need to risk getting caught in traffic with... literally nowhere to um... go. Hehe.

More Fleas

 Another batch of pictures from our Saturday-wasting trip out to the Englishtown Flea Market.

Hmm... Should shopping in a dirt field make us imagine a different world? What if there was no such thing as Malls or Grocery Stores? Is it fun to think of that, or like... depressing? Should we appreciate society more? How about I cut it with the philosophy and stick to the funny comments.

Flea Pictures

 Englishtown Flea Market! This place is close enough to us, I wonder why we don't go more. It's a good weekend time-waster and you never know what kind of treasures you will see. At the very least, we can get picture treasures to share!

I don't know if they have auctions here, but that's what the sign says. Is there a technical reason they don't have to change the name to say "Flea Market"? That might reset the "Since 1929" date, maybe? Yikes, that's almost a hundred years ago!

Random Pictures Again

 Back to talk about the dirt on these pictures. 

In the McDonald's drive thru, enjoying the show. That other parking lot over there is getting wrecked! Speaking of wrecks, this McDonald's I'm at right now is also being wrecked. A week later it was closed but I heard it was going to be re-built in 5 or 6 months. Fortunately there are other McDonald's nearby I can still get to for lunches.

More Princeton

 Happy July 4th! Not really holiday-related, but we were out on our bike riding trip to Princeton for nearly three hours, so... more pictures!

Here's the construction area. Do you think they are going to do these new buildings "all ancient-fancy-style" or simply make them modern buildings, so hundreds of years from now, those buildings will seem like from the now-past instead of the past-past? Did that make sense?