Eric Walker

📷 Photoblogging: Day 06 - Seems windy out today but based on the weather I saw it might be worse tomorrow morning when I am planning on being out and about in the neighborhood. 😬

📷 Photoblogging: Day 04 - Really not much foliage on any of the trees but give another month and I feel like this path alone will start to change.

I am baffled by what has been happening as I posted in December last year when I purchsed some picturs and was handed a USB stick. I am not quite sure what is happening that some companies resorting to sending (or giving) people pictures on USB sticks! Isn’t this the age of highspeed internet, almost unlimited data, and cheap online storage? I thought this was long dead but to the point, I now have in my position two USB sticks from the same orginization that we purchased pictures from from our daughters dance competiation almost a month back. The first one that we recieved 2 weeks ago was corrupt so they had to mail us another one 🙄.

The best part is for people to view the pictures to let the company know what routines your daughters are in (by a number system) you log into SmugMug where they have all of these photos by routine. So then after they email you they load the routines on a USB stick, put them in the mail and hope for the best.

I am so confused on so many levels about what had happened.

On a positive, the pictures that they got of my daughter look really good! Also, I really can’t complain about the color of the USB sticks… 🧡

📷 Photoblogging: Day 03 - Just a couple of important cards to keep around the office 😏

📷 Photoblogging: Day 02 - With this strange Spring weather the only flowers found were fake ones inside 🤷‍♂️

A little word of advice, but honestly it just seems like common knowledge…

If you are trying to set up what you deem as a very important meeting that needs to happen face to face and is urgent, I would expect some confirmation in return when I send you over a time that works based on the initinal email you sent that had big blocks of time. Maybe I should just assume that the time is going to work no matter what time I choose as I choose a time from your list but it makes me uneasy not getting a confirmation due to the fact that it seems of the utmost urgency.

So here I am wondering after 18 hours have passed with still no response and the meeting that requires me to leave work early, drive to a meeting with a very cryptic topic of discussions has me confused at how important this meeting is.

I should clarify that this imporant meeting is being requested about an activity my 9 year olds is doing. Yep, you read that right.

📷 Photoblogging: Day 01 - Big Darbs looks longingly at his Toy…

Well not really the return of the actual company or products but as I was looking at past blog posts today I found My First Post that was posted on March 30, 2011 about an interesting Kickstarter called Record Monsters (well that is as much as I had retained to this point). I probably would haven’t backed it at all but back in the days of earlier Twitter one of the creators Andrew Hyde and I followed each other as well as exchanged some messages from time to time. So sure enough when I saw him and another guy were doing this I figured why not support it. Not only becasue I knew one of the two and appreciated what he was doing on the internet at the time but also because it was a really cool idea to create 3D dinosaurs puzzles out of old records.

So I not only backed the product but since they actually did create it and ship it I got my set of 5 Laser Cut Vinyl Record Puzzles in an amazing box set of Bruce Springsteen & The Street Band. Fast forward 12 years now and I still have not put them together but since being reminded of them knew exactly where I could find this amazing box set.

I do remember I was thinking I would wait at the time until my son was a little older and put them together with him but I packed it away and kind of forgot about it. So now I am debating do I actually break into these amazing things or let them sit for a while longer.

Picture of one of the cut records and the diagram included so you have an idea of how it should go together.

Either way, I am again reminded how fun it is to Blog Garden and find small posts like this bring up memories and remind me of some interesting things and people I have come into contact with along the way.

Had fun playing this older game we would play with the kids when they were little called The Bernstein Bears Learn to Share. We had fun and I always find it interesting what games our kids remember and still love to break out to play.

We Escaped the Room tonight playing the box escape room game called Mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor. We even competed the whole challenge in under the allotted time. It was a good way to spend a snowy night as all activities got canceled.