Yes, another increasingly rare post here. And it’s another bunch of randomness. May or may not go into more details on any of these later.
As I said, at least one of these I’ll probably elaborate on later. But for now… well, you have an idea of what’s been going on with me (unless you follow me on That Other Site, not that I’ve been particularly active there, either).
...soundstages once home to iconic films like “The Wizard of Oz,” “Men in Black” and “Spider-Man.”.
As long as I’m telling truth, I think it’s time I confessed something about one of my costumes, specifically one of the newest ones. No, not the Glinda the Good Witch or Raggedy Ann costumes I wore for local parades or the cat kigurumi I’ve worn in parades and during “down time” at recent conventions. Last year’s Halloween costume, which I’ve since worn to several conventions and is actually part of my current active “rotation” as it were. Ostensibly, it’s a vampire, or a “Victorian vampire” if you wanted to be specific. Well, that’s not entirely true.
Short explanation: it’s really a character from a video game, an I.T. guy who also volunteers at an animal shelter. He (more or less) dresses like a Victorian vampire when he’s not at work; so when I wear that costume I’m actually a guy who is in costume himself.
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Remember the end of my last post? Where I mentioned that, for April Fool’s Day, I could have mentioned that exactly one week prior I had been trapped in a room I couldn’t escape, but got to meet Spencer Reid and play “Fix-It Felix Jr”? Well, oddly enough I didn’t just make that up out of thin air (yes, I am familiar with the cruder turn of phrase; no, I’m not an extra on an upcoming episode of “Criminal Minds”).
See, that weekend Mom and I were visiting my brother and sister-in-law in Huntsville, Alabama. While there, we decided to try one of those escape rooms. You know how in some video games you have solve a puzzle or puzzles to open a door or box? This is basically a live-action, real-time version of that. And there did happen to be an escape room attraction not far from their house. Granted, I was hesitant to take part in any such thing, but I was reassured there would be no jump scares and nothing/nobody would touch or grab me no matter what happened. Also that you’re simply let out of the room should the puzzles not be solved within the time limit, the guide could still (via a monitor on the wall) give the occasional cryptic hint (think the Cheshire Cat in “American McGee’s Alice”) upon request, and (not that it came up) if any of us really needed to leave before time ran out or we opened all the locks, all we had to do was say so and we’d have been let out. So we were never truly trapped or isolated. Between the four of us and an aforementioned cryptic hint or three, we managed to get down to the last two or three puzzles but ran out of time before getting them all. Had we been given another five minutes, we probably would have made it.
After (intentionally) posing with signs good-naturedly mocking our failure, we went to a local bar/arcade (barcade?) for dinner. My brother and sister-in-law had been there before; they had actually played the “Simpsons” arcade game from 1991 there all the way through on her birthday (they even sent pictures). Our waiter there bore an almost uncanny resemblance to Spencer Reid, though his name wasn’t Spencer or Matthew (the latter as in Matthew Gray Gubler, the actor who plays Dr. Reid). No, I did not get his number or social media information. And not only was the aforementioned “The Simpsons” machine there (among many other games of varying vintage), but so was… wait for it… a legit “Fix-It Felix Jr” machine- just like the ones that had been at DisneyQuest (perhaps it was one of the ones that had been in DisneyQuest (glad it found a new home if so)?) Granted, it cost money to play this time, but I actually beat a level (and of course watched poor Ralph get thrown in the mud) unlike before. Still, it was my brother whose initials were on that high score board for the game, not mine. Yes, I did play other games besides that one.
So, yeah I could’ve spun all that into a harrowing tale of being trapped yet meeting Reid and playing “Fix-It Felix” for April Fool’s Day, but I took advantage of Easter being on the same day instead. Still, I wouldn’t have exactly been lying.
Ended up adding both Easter and April Fool's frames to my now-otherwise-unusable original April Fool's icon, sharing the "memory" of when I first used said icon, switching to my usual April Fool's icon, adding both an April Fool's and Easter frame to it, switching to my usual Easter icon, adding a April Fool's frame to it, letting it automatically switch back after several hours, then finally adding an Easter frame. Thus, a rare (and fairly tame) April Fool's shenanigan I actually engaged in.
[I was rarely even online at all for quite a while because] I was fearing a major upheaval in my living situation followed by another.Though as I also mentioned there:
I'm past both and with favorable outcomes.
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