Columbus Flea Market part 2

I took a short pause to post up those Halloween pics so they would be more relevant, but here's the 2nd of 3 batches of pictures from our adventure day out to the Columbus Flea Market. Good 'ole fashion treasure hunting.

This building is in rather good condition considering it's a flea market. Usually these things are just glorified wooden shacks. Is that the difference between one good coat of paint and some bright lights? Let's see if we can um... see... some fun stuff!

More Halloween Spirit 2020

Happy Halloween! It's disappointing that Halloween is on a Saturday this year, and yet we cannot go anywhere. Not technically, with y'know... the whole Covid thing. So stay safe and buy yourself your own candy, get in a costume, and chill out with another batch of pictures from the Spirit Halloween Store. 

If you take a step back and think about Halloween... and why do we make a fun celebration out of this scary stuff? Eh, let's not try to analyze it and just admit it's fun and be okay with it. These are harmless props and not real things, so it's okay really... right?

Halloween Spirit 2020

 Let's take a pause on those flea market pictures to get in the upcoming holiday um... spirit? Looks like it's become a yearly tradition to wander through the Spirit Halloween stores that pops-up in September. I think Covid is going to crush a lot of Halloween this year, Trick-or-Treating and Parties and such. So why are they selling this stuff? I'll stay away from that conversation and instead just make fun comments like usual.

These pictures were taken in early September when the store first "popped-up" so the selection was still fresh. Of course I waited until closer to actual Halloween to share these pictures.

Columbus Flea Market

Back to regular postings with an actual Adventure! Okay calm down, we just discovered another giant flea market. We all know 2020 was a bad year for exploring but we grabbed a mask and prepared to stay six feet away from everybody, and went to go take some pictures. Who's up for some treasure hunting?

The coworker who told us about this place was thinking of this, years ago, when they recommended the Berlin Flea Market. This place is a lot closer, but still about a forty minute drive. No we did not get a helicopter, this is the view from the web site. Would have been cool to get a helicopter though.

Upgrade!

 Finally back to business! Um, I don't think I can call this a business. Back to.... hobby-ness? Hobbiness? Can I create words? Anyway... Our ancient Windows XP desktop PC was unable to load the Blogspot website interface anymore. So... What to do? I've grown fond of this silly hobby of taking pictures of fun things and sharing them, so I wanted to continue to do it. I guess we could have used the phone itself to both take pictures and post them, but I had no intention of typing this much text on the phone's "keyboard screen thingy". So I guess we needed a new computer.

  

Rather than just replace the desktop PC "tower" with a newer one, we decided to go with a laptop. My friend has never really had his own laptop before. So it might be fun to explore what that's like. We're supposed to cover this with stickers, right?

I'm Back!

 I'm back! Not entirely unexpected, since we got some warning in advance, but the blogspot interface updated itself beyond the reach of our ancient Windows XP computer. Several years ago, we would occasionally use the public library's computers to post, but... thanks to Covid shutting down the libraries, we couldn't even do that. Sooo.. okay let's buy us a laptop. Now we've officially spent money on this hobby. And I guess we now we have a laptop, to do other "laptop" stuff on. I'll get a picture of the new toy later, for now here's just another bunch of random pictures of stuff we saw and wanted to share. This still counts as a trial to see if this new laptop works. Pictures are a few weeks old but still fun.

D&D Properties Maintenance? Cool! Are they the ones that set up the trap doors and feed the giant spiders in the dungeon? I'm having trouble with my gelatinous cubes leaving streaks on the floors.

The Empty

Yet another collection of random pictures taken while out on shopping adventures. I should mention that this is the last post I'm pre-posting from August, and the blogspot site might have updated, and our old Windows XP computer might not be able to make new posts. So if there's a delay seeing more posts, it's likely because we are in the process of getting a new computer or figuring out the new formats or whatever. Hopefully they will keep what they call the "Legacy" format available, and everything will be just like usual.

A couple weeks later and the Walmart that was closing is nearly empty. We've been in going-out-of-business stores before, and it's always an odd mix of hopeful bargain hunting and sadness.