BRAMBLE

Visited one of my recent favorite hotspots for my youthfull addiction, DoublePunch over in North Beach today. Walked away with a few Metal Gear blindboxes (which i fiiinally got the ones i wanted), a nice little piece of art for my lady, and this badass Bramble that was sitting in the window. Extremely impressed with the level of craftmanship of the painting and articulation. Makes me want more of the threeA lineup, but… since I’m married now, can’t throw out cash like that anymore!

This badass bot of brute force is the 1st line of defense for my desk, don’t you dare mess with MR.B!

OUCHIE!

My poor poor NOM de PLUME ; ; Snapped off feet and a broken floating arm, so sad to see this rare figure busted up. My bad ass little buddy. A figure that is 1 out of 50, and I believe Ashley Woods first figure from his rad threeA toy line. I spent a good deal of time worrying about the chances to get this little fucker. All day at work I was hitting refresh constantly, over and over and over x infinity, so I could jump at the chance to purchase this bad boy. Luckily I was one of the few!

But after a few little falls from tipping over on my desk, his shit got broke. I sent this same jpg to the 3A info crew, showing the damage done, they where kind enough to offer to fix him up, sent me all the shipping info and all that, but for some reason I enjoy the fact that he is a wounded little soldier now. Truthfully I’m not a toy collector, where everything has to be pristine and living in a perfect world. Most of my G.I.Joes felt plenty of fire damage from me growing up. I probably should of taken them up on the offer about a year ago, I have seen some go for over $1k on the ebays. I never would of sold it anyway, this little bitch is mine! Plus he looks pretty fuckin sweet laying facedown with his little feet hanging over the edge on my bookshelf, haha.

Troopie

Recently my lovey wife purchased me a new road bike for my commuting pleasure. I was sick and tired of the routine that was already in place… riding a stinky ass BART train, then hoping on a deathtrap shuttle, it was not the right way to start out my morning. So I basically said fuck this noise and jumped into the new year right with a new bike in my hand. A badass TREK 1.5. A nice pearly white finish with black accents and chrome highlights. It reminds me of a Stormtrooper, so I fell in love with it just a tad bit more. So to nerd it up a bit, I’m going to name this beast Troopie, haha.

Right now taking it slow (still have the old routine a few days out of the week), starting off with 3 days a week. Its not that bad of a commute to start; ride down to CalTrain and hop on a train, 15 minutes later, just a short trip to work. Almost a 7 mile ride one way, so close to 14 a day. Eventually my goal would be to ride the full route witch is about 22 miles round trip. Yikes…

2010

2009 was such a blur… My updates, maintenance of GRPHKA, and all the little side adventures kind of came to a hault. I guess when you switch jobs and get married within the same year, extra curricular activities take a back seat! Looking back though, it was the best year of my life and look forward to where this new adventure begins. 2010 already looks good.